Alternating-time temporal logic
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
An argumentation based approach for practical reasoning
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An argumentation based approach for practical reasoning
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Arguing about cases as practical reasoning
ICAIL '05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Persuasion and Value in Legal Argument
Journal of Logic and Computation
Audiences in argumentation frameworks
Artificial Intelligence
PARMENIDES: facilitating deliberation in democracies
Artificial Intelligence and Law - AI & law in eGovernment and eDemocracy part I
Justifying Actions by Accruing Arguments
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
Automating Argumentation for Deliberation in Cases of Conflict of Interest
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
Value Based Argumentation in Hierarchical Argumentation Frameworks
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006
Addressing moral problems through practical reasoning
DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
Argumentation for decision support
DEXA'06 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Argumentation in artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Dialogues that account for different perspectives in collaborative argumentation
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Altruism and agents: an argumentation based approach to designing agent decision mechanisms
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Abductive Practical Reasoning
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2008: The Twenty-First Annual Conference
Asking the Right Question: Forcing Commitment in Examination Dialogues
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2008
Towards argumentation-based contract negotiation
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2008
A proposal for evidential reasoning about motives
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Goal-Based Decisions for Dynamic Planning
AIME '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Did he jump or was he pushed?: abductive practical reasoning
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Agreeing on plans through iterated disputes
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Exploring the Role of Emotions in Rational Decision Making
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2010
On the use of Argumentation in Multi-Agent Planning
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Value-based argumentation for justifying compliance
DEON'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Deontic logic in computer science
Semantic models for policy deliberation
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Choosing persuasive arguments for action
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
On the construction of joint plans through argumentation schemes
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Towards a structured online consultation tool
ePart'11 Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Generating possible intentions with constrained argumentation systems
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Using argumentation to model agent decision making in economic experiments
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A generative dialogue system for arguing about plans in situation calculus
ArgMAS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Practical reasoning using values: giving meaning to values
ArgMAS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Emotions in rational decision making
ArgMAS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Argumentation schemes for collaborative planning
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice
ArgMAS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
ArgMAS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Arguments over co-operative plans
TAFA'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
An implemented dialogue system for inquiry and persuasion
TAFA'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
Resource boundedness and argumentation
TAFA'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
An empirical study of a deliberation dialogue system
TAFA'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
Value-based argumentation for justifying compliance
Artificial Intelligence and Law - Special issue on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems
Irrationality in persuasive argumentation
Logic Programs, Norms and Action
Opinion gathering using a multi-agent systems approach to policy selection
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
On the benefits of argumentation schemes in deliberative dialogue
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Case-based strategies for argumentation dialogues in agent societies
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Argumentation based tools for policy-making
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Value-based argumentation for designing and auditing security measures
Ethics and Information Technology
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In this paper we describe an approach to practical reasoning, reasoning about what it is best for a particular agent to do in a given situation, based on presumptive justifications of action through the instantiation of an argument scheme, which is then subject to examination through a series of critical questions. We identify three particular aspects of practical reasoning which distinguish it from theoretical reasoning. We next provide an argument scheme and an associated set of critical questions which is able to capture these features. In order that both the argument scheme and the critical questions can be given precise interpretations we use the semantic structure of an Action-Based Alternating Transition System as the basis for their definition. We then work through a detailed example to show how this approach to practical reasoning can be applied to a problem solving situation, and briefly describe some other previous applications of the general approach. In a second example we relate our account to the social laws paradigm for co-ordinating multi-agent systems. The contribution of the paper is to provide firm foundations for an approach to practical reasoning based on presumptive argument in terms of a well-known model for representing the effects of actions of a group of agents.