Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue

Abstract

In a normative environment an agent's actions are not only directed by its goals but also by norms. Here, potential conflicts among the agent's goals and norms makes decision-making challenging. We therefore seek to answer the following questions: (i) how should an agent act in a normative environment? and (ii) how can the agent explain why it acted in a certain way? We propose a solution in which a normative planning problem serves as the basis for a practical reasoning approach based on argumentation. The properties of the best plan(s) w.r.t. goal achievement and norm compliance are mapped to arguments that are used to explain why a plan is justified, using a dialogue game. PDF

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Text

Shams et al. "Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.

Markdown

[Shams et al. "Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2016/shams2016ijcai-normative/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{shams2016ijcai-normative,
  title     = {{Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue}},
  author    = {Shams, Zohreh and De Vos, Marina and Oren, Nir and Padget, Julian A.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {1244-1250},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2016/shams2016ijcai-normative/}
}