Using Contextual Graphs for Supporting Qualitative Simulation Explanation
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چکیده
We proposed in a previous research an explanatory dialogical agentbased tool for explaining a qualitative simulation algorithm. The main limitation of an agent in our explanatory system was its incapacity to adapt itself to a changing context. The main reason concerns the agent’s inability to share and understand, through its cognitive component, new contextual information not directly accessible for reasoning on it. In this paper, we present the basis on a new functionality of agents that allows contextual information to be freely distributed among agents and we model agent activity by using contextual graphs, a context-based formalism of representation allowing a uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts.
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