We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

Over the last ten years, argumentation has come to be increasingly central as a core study
within Artificial Intelligence (AI). The articles forming this volume reflect a variety of important …

We present a logic-based formalism for modeling ofdialogues between intelligent and
autonomous software agents, building on a theory of abstract dialogue games which we …

This paper lays theoretical and software foundations for a World Wide Argument Web
(WWAW): a large-scale Web of inter-connected arguments posted by individuals to express …

The rise of the Internet and the growth of distributed computing have led to a major paradigm
shift in software engineering and computer science. Until recently, the notion of computation …

Increasingly, software engineering involves open systems consisting of autonomous and
heterogeneous participants or agents who carry out loosely coupled interactions …

The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or
deliberation dialogues; we focus on inquiry dialogues, which allow agents to collaborate in …

Deliberation dialogues occur when two or more participants seek to jointly agree on an
action or a course of action in some situation. We present the first formal framework for such …

We propose a dialogue game protocol for purchase negotiation dialogues which identifies
appropriate speech acts, defines constraints on their utterances, and specifies the different …

Computational Argumentation is a logical model of reasoning that has its origins in
philosophy and provides a means for organising evidence for (or against) particular claims …