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Meaning Negotiation with Defeasible Logic

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Agents negotiate the meaning of terms in numerous real-life situations. When they behave so, they can be used as the basis for providing an emulation paradigm for software agents, habilitating therefore socio-technical systems to perform meaning negotiation. In this paper we focus upon two methods for meaning negotiation in defeasible logic and provide room for an analysis of how the proposed approaches perform the aforementioned process. Finally we also provide a computational analysis of the process automation problem.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Cà Vignal 2, strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Matteo Cristani & Antonino Rotolo

  2. CIRSFID and Law School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Antonino Rotolo

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Gordan Jezic

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Mario Kusek

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Yun-Heh Jessica Chen-Burger

  4. Fern Barrow, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  5. University of Canberra, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Cristani, M., Rotolo, A. (2018). Meaning Negotiation with Defeasible Logic. In: Jezic, G., Kusek, M., Chen-Burger, YH., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technology and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 74. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59394-4_7

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