This article reviews recent advances in the interdisciplinary area lying between artificial
intelligence and the theory of argumentation. The article has two distinct foci: first, examining …

This paper introduces the Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL), a domain specific
language for describing dialectical games. Communication is an important topic within agent …

This paper attempts to systematically characterize critical reactions in argumentative
discourse, such as objections, critical questions, rebuttals, refutations, counterarguments …

In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a
negotiation protocol (NP 0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a …

We study causal information about probabilistic processes, ie, information about why events
occur. A language is developed in which such information can be formally represented and …

We consider the design and enactment of multiagent protocols that describe collaboration
using “normative” or “social” abstractions, specifically, commitments. A (multiagent) protocol …

The use of ambiguous expressions in argumentative dialogues can lead to
misunderstanding and equivocation. Such ambiguities are here called active ambiguities …

Abstract Systems of argumentation or'computational dialectic'are emerging as a powerful
means of structuring inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Individual systems …

In this paper we reconstruct a famous Severin Boethius's reasoning according to the idea of
the medieval obligationes disputation mainly focusing on the formalizations proposed by Ch …

Systems of argumentation or'computational dialectic'are emerging as a powerful means of
structuring inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Individual systems of …