We present an argument-based qualitative decision-making framework in which the social values promoted or demoted by alternative action-options are explicitly represented. We show...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
A key challenge for agent architectures and programming paradigms is to account for defeasible reasoning over mental attitudes and to provide associated conflict resolution mechan...
Abstract. Modeling different types of dialog between autonomous agents is becoming an important research issue. Several proposals exist with a clear definition of the dialog protoc...