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In this paper, we make a first step towards a formal model of dialogue and argumentation for a multi-agent (model-based) diagnostic system. We shall discuss some of the issues in multi-agent cooperative fault diagnosis, the theories of communicating agents and their reasoning capabilities. We propose a Partial Information State (PIS)-based framework for dialogue and argumentation. We shall employ a three-valued based nonmonotonic logic for representing and reasoning about partial information. We show via an example that the system can easily be customized to handle distributed problem-solving tasks.
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Moubaiddin, A., Obeid, N. (2008). Dialogue and Argumentation in Multi-agent Diagnosis. In: Nguyen, N.T., Katarzyniak, R. (eds) New Challenges in Applied Intelligence Technologies. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79355-7_2
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