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    Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation

    Third International Workshop, TAFA 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-26, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Elizabeth Black, Sanjay Modgil in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2015)

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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 ...

    Elizabeth Black, Anthony Hunter in Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (2015)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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...

    Christos Had**ikolis, Sanjay Modgil in Theory and Applications of Formal Argument… (2015)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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...

    Josh Murphy, Elizabeth Black, Michael Luck in Theory and Applications of Formal Argument… (2015)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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...

    Elizabeth Black, Amanda Coles in Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (2014)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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 ...

    Luke Riley, Katie Atkinson, Terry Payne in Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumen… (2012)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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...

    Elizabeth Black, Katie Bentley in Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation (2012)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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 ...

    Elizabeth Black, Katie Atkinson in Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (2011)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    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...

    Elizabeth Black, David W. Glasspool, M. Adela Grando in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2009)