Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation

di Douglas Walton (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2015

This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberation where agents try to collectively arrive at a conclusion on what they should do to move forward in a set of circumstances. The book explains how this argumentation model can help build more realistic computational systems of deliberation and decision-making, and shows how such systems can be applied to solve problems posed by goal-based reasoning in numerous fields, from social psychology and sociology, to law, political science, anthropology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and robotics.

• Autore: Douglas Walton
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 301 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 156 mm
• Peso: 540 gr.
• EAN: 9781107119048

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