An argumentation-based flexible agent with dynamic rules of inference

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 284-291

  Liao, Beishui ^a   Huang, Huaxin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Autonomous agent; Changing knowledge; Defeasible logic

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT REASONING; ARGUMENTATION THEORY; BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; DEFEASIBLE LOGIC; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC RULES; DYNAMIC THEORY; FLEXIBLE AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; REASONING PROCESS; RUNTIMES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 77949539293     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2009.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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