Argumentation Machines
Argumentation Machines

Author: C. Reed

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9401704317

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In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term 'argumentation' within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al's interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of ten inspired) guesswork, and that a great majority of the AI community were unaware that there was a maturing, rich field of research in Argumentation Theory (and Critical Thinking and Informal Logic) that had been steadily re building a scholarly approach to the area over the previous twenty years or so. Argumentation Theory, on its side; was developing theories and approaches that many in the field felt could have a role more widely in research and soci ety, but were for the most part unaware that AI was one of the best candidates for such application.

Argumentation Machines
Argumentation Machines

Author: C. Reed

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-12-31

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781402018114

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In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term 'argumentation' within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al's interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of ten inspired) guesswork, and that a great majority of the AI community were unaware that there was a maturing, rich field of research in Argumentation Theory (and Critical Thinking and Informal Logic) that had been steadily re building a scholarly approach to the area over the previous twenty years or so. Argumentation Theory, on its side; was developing theories and approaches that many in the field felt could have a role more widely in research and soci ety, but were for the most part unaware that AI was one of the best candidates for such application.

Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics
Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics

Author: Beishui Liao

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-12-27

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0124104517

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Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics addresses argumentation semantics and systems, introducing readers to cutting-edge decomposition methods that drive increasingly efficient logic computation in AI and intelligent systems. Such complex and distributed systems are increasingly used in the automation and transportation systems field, and particularly autonomous systems, as well as more generic intelligent computation research. The Series in Intelligent Systems publishes titles that cover state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest advances in research and development in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. The series publishes titles in three core sub-topic areas: intelligent automation, intelligent transportation systems, and intelligent computing. The first book to cover new methods for computing static, dynamic, and partial argumentation systems Methods are applicable to development of systems and research areas in both AI and broader intelligent systems Provides the AI and IS community with insight into the critical field of efficient computation, with a focus on intelligent automation, intelligent transportation systems, and intelligent computing

Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence
Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Iyad Rahwan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-13

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0387981977

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Argumentation is all around us. Letters to the Editor often make points of cons- tency, and “Why” is one of the most frequent questions in language, asking for r- sons behind behaviour. And argumentation is more than ‘reasoning’ in the recesses of single minds, since it crucially involves interaction. It cements the coordinated social behaviour that has allowed us, in small bands of not particularly physically impressive primates, to dominate the planet, from the mammoth hunt all the way up to organized science. This volume puts argumentation on the map in the eld of Arti cial Intelligence. This theme has been coming for a while, and some famous pioneers are chapter authors, but we can now see a broader systematic area emerging in the sum of topics and results. As a logician, I nd this intriguing, since I see AI as ‘logic continued by other means’, reminding us of broader views of what my discipline is about. Logic arose originally out of re ection on many-agent practices of disputation, in Greek Ant- uity, but also in India and China. And logicians like me would like to return to this broader agenda of rational agency and intelligent interaction. Of course, Aristotle also gave us a formal systems methodology that deeply in uenced the eld, and eventually connected up happily with mathematical proof and foundations.

Reading Machines
Reading Machines

Author: Stephen Ramsay

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0252093445

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Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts. Computers can handle vast amounts of data, allowing for the comparison of texts in ways that were previously too overwhelming for individuals, but they may also assist in enhancing the entirely necessary role of subjectivity in critical interpretation. Reading Machines discusses the importance of this new form of text analysis conducted with the assistance of computers. Ramsay suggests that the rigidity of computation can be enlisted in the project of intuition, subjectivity, and play.

Information Systems Design Methodologies
Information Systems Design Methodologies

Author: T. William Olle

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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The advantages of discussing topics in conference are many: they bring together individuals from around the world with a common interest, and the attempts to attack a standard test case in different ways highlights the similarities and differences among the methodologies employed. Discussion of these results helps the various approaches to converge, leading to some consensus. These consensus views benefit practitioners who are involved in designing information systems. The proceedings contained herein include a number of feature analyses of the methodologies included in the first proceedings, from the 1982 conference.

Scalable Uncertainty Management
Scalable Uncertainty Management

Author: Andrea Pugliese

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-09-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 3642043879

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This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2009, in Washington, DC, September 28-30, 2009. It contains 21 technical papers which were selected out of 30 submitted papers in a rigourous reviewing process. The volume also contains extended abstracts of two invited talks. The volume reflects the growing interest in uncertainty and incosistency and aims at bringing together all those interested in the management of uncertainty and inconsistency at large.