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Towards Pragmatic Argumentative Agents within a Fuzzy Description Logic Framework

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To bring the level of current argumentation to the expressive and flexible status expected by human agents, we introduce fuzzy reasoning on top of the classical Dung abstract argumentation framework. The system is built around Fuzzy Description Logic and exploits the integration of ontologies with argumentation theory, attaining the advantage of facilitating communication of domain knowledge between agents. The formal properties of fuzzy relations are used to provide semantics to the different types of conflicts and supporting roles in the argumentation. The usefulness of the framework is illustrated in a supply chain scenario.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baritiu 28, RO-400391, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioan Alfred Letia & Adrian Groza

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  1. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, Strand Building S6.04, The Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, UK

    Peter McBurney

  2. Masdar Institute, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

  3. Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA

    Simon Parsons

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Letia, I.A., Groza, A. (2011). Towards Pragmatic Argumentative Agents within a Fuzzy Description Logic Framework. In: McBurney, P., Rahwan, I., Parsons, S. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21940-5_13

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