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Argumentation is becoming increasingly important in the design and implementation of autonomous software agents. In this paper we discuss our current work on a prototype lightweight Java-based argumentation engine that can be used to implement a non-monotonic reasoning component in Internet or agent-based applications. As far as possible we are aiming towards implementing a general purpose argumentation engine that can be configured to conform to one of a range of semantics.
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Bryant, D., Krause, P. (2006). An Implementation of a Lightweight Argumentation Engine for Agent Applications. In: Fisher, M., van der Hoek, W., Konev, B., Lisitsa, A. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11853886_39
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