This manual covers the principles and applications of goal-based reasoning for argumentation, a critical method for problem-solving and decision-making. It details how this reasoning process, modeled as goal-directed argumentation, is utilized by agents to select actions as means to achieve their objectives within specific circumstances. The text explores the construction of computational systems that realistically simulate deliberation and decision-making, offering insights into their use across diverse fields.
The scope of this manual is to provide a comprehensive argumentation model for means-end reasoning, illustrating its practical implementation in intelligent deliberation. It is intended for researchers and practitioners in areas such as artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, robotics, cognitive science, law, and social sciences who seek to understand and build systems capable of goal-based reasoning and collective decision-making. The manual serves as a foundational text for developing more sophisticated and effective computational models.
This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberation where agents try to collectively arrive at a conclusion on what they should do to move forward in a set of circumstances. The book explains how this argumentation model can help build more realistic computational systems of deliberation and decision-making, and shows how such systems can be applied to solve problems posed by goal-based reasoning in numerous fields, from social psychology and sociology, to law, political science, anthropology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and robotics.
Author: Walton, Douglas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation
Pages: 00320 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2015-09-30
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781107119048
Category: Computers : Natural Language Processing
This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberation where agents try to collectively arrive at a conclusion on what they should do to move forward in a set of circumstances. The book explains how this argumentation model can help build more realistic computational systems of deliberation and decision-making, and shows how such systems can be applied to solve problems posed by goal-based reasoning in numerous fields, from social psychology and sociology, to law, political science, anthropology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and robotics.
Author: Walton, Douglas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation
Pages: 00320 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2015-09-30
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781107119048
Category: Computers : Natural Language Processing
