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An Argumentation-Based Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Design Debates

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This paper presents a novel argumentation framework to support design debates in an IBIS-based style, by providing an automatic evaluation of the positions put forwards in the debates. It also describes the integration of the proposed approach within the designVUE software tool along with two case studies in engineering design and their initial evaluation by domain experts.

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Baroni, P., Romano, M., Toni, F., Aurisicchio, M., Bertanza, G. (2013). An Argumentation-Based Approach for Automatic Evaluation of Design Debates. In: Leite, J., Son, T.C., Torroni, P., van der Torre, L., Woltran, S. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. CLIMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40624-9_21

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