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COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Computing Preferred Extensions for Argumentation Systems with Sets of Attacking Arguments
The hitherto most abstract, and hence general, argumentation system, is the one described by Dung in a paper from 1995. This framework does not allow for joint attacks on arguments...
Søren Holbech Nielsen, Simon Parsons
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Knowing When To Bargain - The roles of negotiation and persuasion in dialogue
In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a negotiation protocol (NP0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a pe...
Simon Wells, Chris Reed
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
A dialectic procedure for sceptical, assumption-based argumentation
We present a procedure for computing the sceptical "ideal semantics" for argumentation in assumption-based frameworks. This semantics was first proposed for logic program...
Phan Minh Dung, Paolo Mancarella, Francesca Toni
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
CBR and Argument Schemes for Collaborative Decision Making
In this paper we present a novel approach for combining Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and Argumentation. This approach involves 1) the use of CBR for evaluating the arguments submitt...
Pancho Tolchinsky, Sanjay Modgil, Ulises Cort&eacu...
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
The Carneades Argumentation Framework - Using Presumptions and Exceptions to Model Critical Questions
Abstract. In 2005, Gordon and Walton presented initial ideas for a computational model of defeasible argument [12, 26], which builds on and elaborates Walton's theory of argum...
Thomas F. Gordon, Douglas Walton
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
First Steps Towards the Automatic Construction of Argument-Diagrams from Real Discussions
Abstract. This paper presents our efforts to create argument structures from meeting transcripts automatically. We show that unit labels of argument diagrams can be learnt and pred...
Daan Verbree, Rutger Rienks, Dirk Heylen
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Value-Based Argumentation for Democratic Decision Support
In this paper we discuss the integration of two systems that are based on a specific theory of argumentation: the first, an existing web-based discussion forum; the second, a metho...
Katie Atkinson
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Argumentation and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory
Abstract. This paper presents a coherentist approach to argumentation that extends previous proposals on cognitive coherence based agent communication pragmatics (inspired from soc...
Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz ...
COMMA
2006
14 years 6 days ago
Value Based Argumentation in Hierarchical Argumentation Frameworks
Hierarchical argumentation frameworks organise Dung argumentation frameworks into a hierarchy so that argumentation over preference information in a level n Dung framework is used ...
Sanjay Modgil