Using arguments for making and explaining decisions

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 173, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 413-436

  Amgoud, Leila ^a   Prade, Henri ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Decision making

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; SET THEORY;

ABSTRACT MODELING; ARGUMENTATION; DECISION CRITERIONS; DECISION MAKER (DM); DECISION PRINCIPLES; MENTAL STATES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 58549099648     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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