Risk Agoras: Dialectical Argumentation for Scientific Reasoning
Abstract
We propose a formal framework for intelligent systems which can reason about scientific domains, in particular about the carcinogenicity of chemicals, and we study its properties. Our framework is grounded in a philosophy of scientific enquiry and discourse, and uses a model of dialectical argumentation. The formalism enables representation of scientific uncertainty and conflict in a manner suitable for qualitative reasoning about the domain.
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McBurney and Parsons. "Risk Agoras: Dialectical Argumentation for Scientific Reasoning." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2000.Markdown
[McBurney and Parsons. "Risk Agoras: Dialectical Argumentation for Scientific Reasoning." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2000.](https://mlanthology.org/uai/2000/mcburney2000uai-risk/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{mcburney2000uai-risk,
title = {{Risk Agoras: Dialectical Argumentation for Scientific Reasoning}},
author = {McBurney, Peter and Parsons, Simon},
booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2000},
pages = {371-379},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/uai/2000/mcburney2000uai-risk/}
}