Abstract. The Transferable Belief Model (TBM) relies on belief functions and enables one to represent and combine a variety of knowledge from certain up to ignorance as well as con...
Abstract. The problem of merging multiple sources information is central in several domains of computer science. In knowledge representation for artificial intelligence, several a...
Many merging operators have been proposed to merge either flat or stratified knowledge bases. The result of merging by such an operator is a flat base (or a set of models of the me...
Many types of inter-agent dialogue, including information seeking, negotiation and deliberation can be fruitfully seen as varieties of argumentation. Argumentation frameworks, ori...