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Arguing for Intelligence: The Roles of Argumentation in AI
This event took place on Thursday 09 December 2004 at 14:15

Dr Chris Reed Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland

In contrast to the formal analysis of reasoned argument, pursued by mathematicians since the turn of the century, a small band of philosophers and linguists have been attempting to reconcile a formal, powerful analysis with the demands of real world, natural argumentation. The endeavour is termed 'argumentation theory', under which head are collected fallacy theory, enthymeme reconstruction, subjective plausibility, dialectics and rhetoric, amongst others. These various techniques and subfields have turned out to have a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence. Coordination in multi-agent systems, persuasive text generation in computational linguistics, e-democracy and computer-supported collaborative work, defeasible and other nonclassical logics, legal support systems and other areas have all made use of various aspects of argumentation theory. In this talk, I shall focus upon projects under way at Dundee, not only to show a variety of applications of argumentation theory in many of these domains, but also to demonstrate the potential for coherence and reuse between them.

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Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities