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Elizabeth Black
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Towards a Sound and Complete Dialogue System for Handling Enthymemes
A common assumption for argumentation-based dialogues is that any argument exchanged is complete, in the sense that its premises entail its claim. However, in real world dialogues, agents commonly exchange ent...
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An Investigation of Argumentation Framework Characteristics
We investigate the relationship between the structural properties of argumentation frameworks and their argument-based characteristics, examining the characteristics of structures of Dung-style frameworks and ...
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Team Persuasion
We consider two teams of agents engaging in a debate to persuade an audience of the acceptability of a central argument. This is modelled by a bipartite abstract argumentation framework with a distinguished to...
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Reasons and Options for Updating an Opponent Model in Persuasion Dialogues
Dialogical argumentation allows agents to interact by constructing and evaluating arguments through a dialogue. Numerous proposals have been made for protocols for dialogical argumentation, and recently there ...
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Building Support-Based Opponent Models in Persuasion Dialogues
This paper deals with an approach to opponent-modelling in argumentation-based persuasion dialogues. It assumes that dialogue participants (agents) have models of their opponents’ knowledge, which can be augme...
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Towards the Disruption of Plans
In order for an agent or a group of agents (such as a team) to achieve a goal, a sequence of actions have to be performed. These actions bring about state transitions that constitute a plan. Multiple ways of a...
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Arguing from Similar Positions: An Empirical Analysis
Argument-based deliberation dialogues are an important mechanism in the study of agent coordination, allowing agents to exchange formal arguments to reach an agreement for action. Agents participating in a del...
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Automated Planning of Simple Persuasion Dialogues
We take a simple form of non-adversarial persuasion dialogue in which one participant (the persuader) aims to convince the other (the responder) to accept the topic of the dialogue by asserting sets of beliefs. T...
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Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions
Software design is an important creative step in the engineering of software systems, yet we know surprisingly little about how humans actually do it. While it has been argued before that there is a need for f...
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An Implemented Dialogue System for Inquiry and Persuasion
In this paper, we present an implemented system that enables autonomous agents to engage in dialogues that involve inquiries embedded within a process of practical reasoning. The implementation builds upon an ...
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An Empirical Study of a Deliberation Dialogue System
We present an empirical simulation-based study of the use of value-based argumentation in two-party deliberation dialogues, investigating the impact that argumentation can have on the quality of the outcome re...
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Agreeing What to Do
When deliberating about what to do, an autonomous agent must generate and consider the relative pros and cons of the different options. The situation becomes even more complicated when an agent is involved in ...
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Goal-Based Decisions for Dynamic Planning
The need for clinical guidelines to be implemented at different sites, to adapt to rapidly changing environments, and to be carried out by distributed clinical teams, implies a degree of flexibility beyond tha...
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An Argument-Based Approach to Using Multiple Ontologies
Logic-based argumentation offers an approach to querying and revising multiple ontologies that are inconsistent or incoherent. A common assumption for logic-based argumentation is that an argument is a pair 〈Φ,α〉...
