Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation

This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent''s goals and known circumstances and from an action selected as a means to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberation where agents try to collectively arrive at a conclusion on what they should do to move forward in a set of circumstances. The book explains how this argumentation model can help build more realistic computational systems of deliberation and decision-making and shows how such systems can be applied to solve problems posed by goal-based reasoning in numerous fields from social psychology and sociology to law political science anthropology cognitive science artificial intelligence multi-agent systems and robotics.