Hermes: Supporting Argumentative Discourse in Multi-Agent Decision Making

This paper describes HERMES, a system that enhances group decision making by providing an argumentation framework to the agents involved. The system organizes the existing knowledge in a discussion graph, which consists of issues, alternatives, positions and preference relations. Argumentation is performed through a set of discourse acts which trigger appropriate procedures for the propagation of information in the graph. HERMES is able to handle incomplete, qualitative and inconsistent information, and provides mechanisms for weighing arguments.

[1]  L KraemerKenneth,et al.  Computer-based systems for cooperative work and group decision making , 1988 .

[2]  H. Rittel,et al.  Dilemmas in a general theory of planning , 1973 .

[3]  Hector Geffner,et al.  Conditional Entailment: Bridging two Approaches to Default Reasoning , 1992, Artif. Intell..

[4]  Norbert A. Streitz,et al.  From ideas and arguments to hyperdocuments: travelling through activity spaces , 1989, Hypertext.

[5]  Roger Hurwitz,et al.  The Open Meeting: A Web-Based System for Conferencing and Collaboration , 1996, World Wide Web J..

[6]  Gerhard Brewka,et al.  A Reconstruction of Rescher' s Theory of Formal Disputation Based on Default Logic , 1994, ECAI.

[7]  D. Suthers,et al.  Belvedere: Engaging students in critical discussion of science and public policy issues. , 1995 .

[8]  Arthur M. Farley,et al.  Burden of proof in legal argumentation , 1995, ICAIL '95.

[9]  Thomas F. Gordon,et al.  Pleadings game - an artificial intelligence model of procedural justice , 1995 .

[10]  Michael L. Begeman,et al.  gIBIS: a hypertext tool for team design deliberation , 1987, Hypertext.

[11]  Dimitris Papadias,et al.  Collaborative environmental planning with GeoMed , 1997 .

[12]  Roger King,et al.  Computer-Aided Reasoned Discourse or, How to Argue with a Computer ; CU-CS-358-87 , 2013 .

[13]  Kenneth L. Kraemer,et al.  Computer-based systems for cooperative work and group decision making , 1988, CSUR.

[14]  Nicholas Rescher,et al.  Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge , 1977 .

[15]  Raymond McCall,et al.  JANUS: integrating hypertext with a knowledge-based design environment , 1989, Hypertext.

[16]  Eugene C. Freuder,et al.  The Complexity of Some Polynomial Network Consistency Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems , 1985, Artif. Intell..

[17]  Nikos I. Karacapilidis,et al.  The Zeno argumentation framework , 1997, ICAIL '97.