Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation

This book provides an argumentation model for means end–reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end–reasoning is modeled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberatio...