This paper focuses of the group judgments obtained from a committee of agents that use deliberation. The deliberative process is realized by an argumentation framework called AMAL. The AMAL framework is completely based on learning from examples: the argument preference relation, the argument generation policy, and the counterargument generation policy are case-based techniques. For join delibe...

This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation that we are interested in is a process that combines both the selection of an overall goal, the reduction of this goal into sub-goals, and the formation of a plan to achieve the overall goal. We develop a mechanism for doi...

In this work we explore the use of deliberation scheduling for allocating computation among competing decision procedures in solving time-critical scheduling problems in stochastic domains. We present a two-level deliberation scheduling solution. At the higher level deliberation scheduling is used to partition innnite horizon scheduling problems temporally and sequence and allot computation tim...

Reactive deliberation is a novel robot architecture that has been designed to overcome some of the problems posed by dynamic robot environments. It is argued that the problem of action selection in nontrivial domains cannot be intelligently resolved without attention to detailed planning. Experimental evidence is provided that the goals and actions of a robot must be evaluated at a rate commens...

cost-effectiveness analysis (cea) can help countries attain and sustain universal health coverage (uhc), as long as it is context-specific and considered within deliberative processes at the country level. institutionalising robust deliberative processes requires significant time and resources, however, and countries often begin by demanding evidence (including local cea evidence as well as evi...

We study the impact of deliberation time on intertemporal choice. Using studies in an online labor market, the laboratory, and a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we show that the introduction of waiting periods – designed to prompt deliberation by temporally separating news about choice sets from choices themselves – cause a shift towards substantially more patient decision...

According to argumentation theory, reasoning takes place in different types of dialogue: persuasion dialogue, negotiation, deliberation, information-seeking dialogue, inquiry, and eristic dialogue. These different dialogue types may be nested within one another. Current research in artificial intelligence is building formal models corresponding to each of these types of dialogue and showing how...

the concept of shoura (council), and the relationship between shoura and democracy, has a key role in development of religious modernist debates in muslim world. the “general theory of shoura” is one of these theories on islamic democracy that provided and developed by dr. towfiq mohammad al-shavi(birth, 1918/egypt). the three aspects of his theory are: 1) the religious basis of shoura that pro...