Solving power and trust conflicts through argumentation in agent-mediated knowledge distribution

International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 263-276

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Defeasible argumentation; Knowledge management; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013594740     PISSN: 13272314     EISSN: 18758827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/KES-2006-10403     Document Type: Article

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