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Argumentation and decision making: A position paper

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Practical Reasoning (FAPR 1996)

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This paper summarises our position on the use of symbolic methods for reasoning under uncertainty, and argumentation in particular. Our view is that argumentation offers a complement to numerical methods for reasoning about belief, and a general framework within which many competing approaches can be understood. In applications we have found that argumentation offers a variety of benefits for practical reasoning systems. The presentation is historical, emphasising the reasons which motivated the development of the argumentation framework, drawing primarily on work carried out by researchers at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund since about 1980.

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    Present address: Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK

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  1. Advanced Computation Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, P.O. Box 123, WC2A 3PX, London, UK

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Parsons, S., Fox, J. (1996). Argumentation and decision making: A position paper. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Practical Reasoning. FAPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_113

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