Reasoning and change over inconsistent ontologies (i-ont(s)) is of utmost relevance in sciences like medicine and law. Argumentation may be an appropriate formalism to cope with both problems: (reasoning) through an ...

Abstract. Contextual knowledge reasoning requiresprecise but flexible fonnalisms in such a way that, together wíth the capacity to reason with well defmed infonnation, becapable as well to deal with not well defmed ...

This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior, as measured by having extramarital sex and/or multiple sex partners. The empirical analysis is based on a panel ...

Reasoning and change over inconsistent knowledge bases (KBs) is of utmost relevance in areas like medicine and law. Argumentation may bring the possibility to cope with both problems. Firstly, by constructing an argumentation ...

Merging operators represent a significant tool to extract a consistent and informative view from a set of agents. The consideration of practical scenarios where some agents can be more credible than others has contributed ...