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Argumentation among Agents

What is Argumentation? Arguing with Others “A verbal and social activity of reason aimed at increasing (or decreasing)…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Negotiation Bargaining

Bargaining is a simple form of the distributive negotiation process that is both competitive and positional. Bargaining doesn’t…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

What is agent communication?

Communication is necessary in order to allow collaboration, negotiation, cooperation, etc… between independent entities. For this purpose, it…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Truth Maintenance Systems

inferences drawn by the knowledge representation system will have only default status, rather than being absolutely certain. Inevitably,…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Reasoning With Default Information

2 examples that violate the monotonicity property of logic (and thus are non-monotonic): semantic networks we saw that property inherited by…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Reasoning Systems for Categories

2 families of systems designed for organizing and reasoning with categories:  semantic networks – utilizing graphs and algorithms for…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Mental Events and Mental Objects

The agents we have constructed so far have beliefs and can deduce new beliefs. Yet none of them…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Actions, Situations, and Events

reasoning about results of actions is central to a knowledge-based agent. propositional logic gave us an example of…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Categories and Objects

categories are an important aspect of general knowledge reasoning strict kind categories – an object is a triangle iff it…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan
Artificial Intelligence

Ontological Engineering

ontological engineering – representing abstract concepts (e.g. actions, time, physical objects, and beliefsupper ontology – a general framework of concepts…

July 20, 2021 · Boomi Nathan