Argumentation is the interaction of arguments for and against some conclusion, primarily to facilitate "rational interaction" (i.e., interaction which involves the giving and receiving of reasons) between rational agents.
Argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing, and analyzing complex interactions among rational agents.
Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation, labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and logistics. A single agent may also use argumentation techniques to perform its individual reasoning because it needs to make decisions under complex preferences policies, in a highly dynamic environment.
[Adapted from the Second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2005)]
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