Within the last decade, abstract argumentation has emerged as a central field in Artificial
Intelligence. Besides providing a core formalism for many advanced argumentation systems …

The changing of arguments and their attack relation is an intrinsic property of a variety of
argumentation systems. So, it is very important to efficiently figure out how the status of …

This paper investigates natural-language argumentation in the case law domain. The
starting point is a study on the discoursive and argumentative characteristiques of ten legal …

Abstract Background and Objective: When agents (eg a person and a social robot) perform a
joint activity to achieve a joint goal, they require sharing a relevant group intention, which …

We present a dialogue system that allows agents to exchange arguments in order to come to
an agreement on how to act. When selecting arguments to assert, an agent uses a model of …

In a normative environment, an agent's actions are directed not only by its goals but also by
the norms activated by its actions and those of other actors. The potential for conflict …

During the first step of practical reasoning, ie deliberation, an intelligent agent generates a
set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to achieve. An intelligent …

Values are at the heart of human decision-making. They are used to decide whether
something or some state of affairs is good or not, and they are also used to address the …

Decision making is usually based on the comparative evaluation of different options by
means of a decision criterion. Recently, the qualitative pessimistic criterion was articulated in …

During the first step of practical reasoning, ie deliberation or goals selection, an intelligent
agent generates a set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to …