Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
4th International Workshop, TAFA 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August 19-20, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
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Open AccessIdentifying barriers and utility of obtaining ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a pediatric chronic kidney disease population
Hypertension is a prevalent complication of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is the gold standard for diagnosis. The aim of our study was to assess the usefulness of...
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Open AccessRetrospective study assessing outcomes in cardiac surgery after implementation of Quantra
The Quantra QPlus System is a cartridge-based device with a unique ultrasound technology that can measure the viscoelastic properties of whole blood during coagulation. These viscoelastic properties correlate ...
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Open AccessDiscordances between pediatric and adult thresholds in the diagnosis of hypertension in adolescents with CKD
Adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are a unique population with a high prevalence of hypertension. Management of hypertension during the transition from adolescence to adulthood can be challenging g...
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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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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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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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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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