Abstract. The dependency pair method is a powerful method for automatically proving termination of rewrite systems. When used with traditional simplification orders like LPO and K...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Reasoning in legal and social domains appears not to be well dealt with by deductive approaches. This is because such reasoning is open-endedly defeasible, and because the various ...
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
We introduce and investigate a natural extension of Dung’s well-known model of argument systems in which attacks are associated with a weight, indicating the relative strength o...
Paul E. Dunne, Anthony Hunter, Peter McBurney, Sim...