Evidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in many diverse domains, including healthcare, environmental management, and government. This has raised the need ...
The ability to argue is essential in many aspects of life, but traditional face-to-face tutoring approaches do not scale up well. A solution for this dilemma may be computer-suppor...
Frank Loll, Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Niel...
The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...
This paper presents a formalism to describe practical reasoning in terms of an Action-based Alternating Transition System (AATS). The starting point is a previously specified acc...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...