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Argumentation Schemes in Multi-agent Systems: A Social Perspective

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2017)

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Argumentation schemes are common patterns of arguments used in everyday discourse, as well as in contexts such as legal and scientific argumentation. The use of argumentation schemes may depend on the (social) context of the participating actors, the roles that they play in society, and so on. Based on this idea, this work proposes a conceptual and practical framework that combines argumentation schemes and social organisations in multi-agent systems. In our framework, the agents’ social context constrains the usage of argumentation schemes and their associated critical questions. The framework has been developed on top of an existing multi-agent systems development platform, and we argue that our approach has advantages over traditional uses of argumentation schemes such as requiring less communication in multi-agent systems.

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    Sometimes called presumptive, or abductive as well.

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    That extension was inspired by [4].

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    We took inspiration from the protocol presented in [23].

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This research was partially funded by CNPq and CAPES.

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    Alison R. Panisson & Rafael H. Bordini

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    Alessandro Ricci

  3. Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

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Panisson, A.R., Bordini, R.H. (2018). Argumentation Schemes in Multi-agent Systems: A Social Perspective. In: El Fallah-Seghrouchni, A., Ricci, A., Son, T. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10738. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91899-0_6

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