Goal-Based Reasoning for Argumentation

By Douglas Walton

Book Overview

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 modeled 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107545099
• ISBN13: 9781107545090
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"