TY - GEN
T1 - Argument Schemes for Normative Practical Reasoning
AU - Oren, Nir
N1 - Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their
very detailed and insightful comments.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper describes a framework for practical reasoning in the presence of norms. We describe a formal normative model constructed using Action-based Alternating Transition Systems. This model is able to represent goals; obligations and prohibitions and their violation; and permissions, which are used to derogate the former. Inspired by Atkinson's scheme for practical reasoning, we utilise argument schemes and critical questions to both show and reason about how goals and obligations lead to preferences over the possible executions of the system. The model then allows us to determine if sufficient information has been provided in order to perform practical reasoning, identify the best courses of action, and explain why specific sequences of actions should be executed by agents within the system.
AB - This paper describes a framework for practical reasoning in the presence of norms. We describe a formal normative model constructed using Action-based Alternating Transition Systems. This model is able to represent goals; obligations and prohibitions and their violation; and permissions, which are used to derogate the former. Inspired by Atkinson's scheme for practical reasoning, we utilise argument schemes and critical questions to both show and reason about how goals and obligations lead to preferences over the possible executions of the system. The model then allows us to determine if sufficient information has been provided in order to perform practical reasoning, identify the best courses of action, and explain why specific sequences of actions should be executed by agents within the system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958539290&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-54373-9_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-54373-9_5
M3 - Published conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958539290
SN - 9783642543722
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 63
EP - 78
BT - Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
A2 - Black, Elizabeth
A2 - Modgil, Sanjay
A2 - Oren, Nir
PB - Springer-Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2013
Y2 - 3 August 2013 through 5 August 2013
ER -