Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Bei**g, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers
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Regulation of Albumin Synthesis and Catabolism by Alteration of Dietary Protein
THERE is good evidence that catabolism of albumin is slowed in conditions of low-protein feeding and in clinical states of protein deficiency, for example, kwashiorkor1–3. There is less certainty about alteration...
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Early prediction of hypotheroidism following 131I treatment for Graves' disease
The aim of this study was twofold. Firstly to assess the post treatment predictive value of various biochemical and immunological tests for early hypothyroidism after 131I therapy for Graves' disease, and secondl...
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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〉...
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An inquiry dialogue system
The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or deliberation dialogues; we focus on inquiry dialogues, which allow agents to collaborate in order to find new knowledge. We...
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Introduction to the special issue on the nature and scope of information
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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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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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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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Book and Conference Proceedings
Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
Third International Workshop, TAFA 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-26, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
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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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A coherence maximisation process for solving normative inconsistencies
Norms can be used in multi-agent systems for defining patterns of behaviour in terms of permissions, prohibitions and obligations that are addressed to agents playing a specific role. Agents may play different...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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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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 ...
