We propose an argument-based foundation for dialogue games capable of modelling protocols for exchange of arguments in dialogues to prove or disprove propositions. We introduce structure into dialogue states by modelling them as dialogue trees coupled with appropriate annotation mechanisms. We model dialogue locutions as transformations between dialogue states. Viewing dialogues as proofs, we s...

This paper is a discussion of a recent attempt by Crispin Wright (Wright 1991; page references to this work unless stated) to force at least some varieties of external world scepticism to succumb to a "head-on, rational response", contrary to well-known expressions of pessimism by, for example, Sir Peter Strawson and Barry Stroud. The varieties of scepticism in question are those that involve p...

We present the CaSAPI system, implementing (a generalisation of) three existing computational mechanisms [8–10] for determining argumentatively whether potential beliefs can be deemed to be acceptable and, if so, for computing supports for them. These mechanisms are defined in terms of dialectical disputes amongst two fictional agents: a proponent agent, eager to determine the acceptability of ...

BACKGROUND A well established "midlevel" of patient care, such as nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants, exits in many countries like the US, Canada, and Australia. In Germany, however there is only one kind of profession assisting the physician in practices, the practice nurse. Little is known about the present involvement of practice nurses in patients' care in Germany and about the...

swift development in economic aspects and the call for more concentration on the ethics in new era is taking considerations in the world. the aim of this study was the investigation of the impact of the islamic work ethics and its aspects in every point of human being characters, especially in employees’ hope, resilience, optimism and efficacy, as the dimensions of positive psychological capita...

all researches and documents have a philosophical basis and since paradigm refers to the system of thinking, it can be basis for research patterns. despite of the various discussions on information system paradigms and code of ethics , non of them deal with paradigm of code of ethics. due to this gap the aim of this research is explaining the position of ethics paradigm in organizations code of...

Understanding the factors associated with vaccine scepticism is challenging because of ‘small-pockets’ problem: The number highly vaccine-sceptical people low, and small subsamples such as these can be missed using traditional regression approaches. To overcome this problem, current study (N = 5,200) used latent profile analysis to uncover six profiles, including two micro-communities who have ...

In this paper we test how efficiently state-of-the art solvers are capable of solving credulous and sceptical argument-acceptance for lower-order extensions. As our benchmark we consider two different random graph-models to obtain random Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with small-world characteristics: Kleinberg and Watt-Strogatz. We test two reasoners, i.e., ConArg2 and dynPARTIX, on such be...

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