Argumentation-supported information distribution in a multiagent system for knowledge management

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4049 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 279-296

  Brena, Ramón F ^a   Chesñevar, Carlos I ^b   Aguirre, José L ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Information systems; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARGUMENTATION; DIALECTICAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RATIONALLY JUSTIFIED PROCEDURE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746710355     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11794578_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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