Metaphor has received the attention of ancient and modern researchers, its presence in many speeches, regardless forms types, been embodied as one most straightforward characters natural languages. It become a starting point for theories that have differed divergent orientations, perhaps what concerns us is orientation does not limit role metaphor to artistic aspect only, but also persuasive ar...

Negotiation is a technique through which two agents having conflicting interests reach an agreement that is beneficial for both of them. Argumentation-based negotiation is a better form of negotiation where one negotiating agent argues with another to justify its position and influences the other agent to follow it. This increases the likelihood and quality of agreement in a negotiation process...

And for visualization in general, we can distinguish two approaches: extrinsic and intrinsic [1]. In the former, we map agent properties to size, shape, texture, and color; in the latter, we map inter-agent relations to spatial distance. Consider, for example, the picture in Figure 1 showing a courtroom with the accused guarded by military police. The extrinsic approach allows us to identify tw...

Q: How has WHO's approach to strengthening health systems changed? A: We surveyed our stakeholders in WHO departments, the regions and governments early on. This showed us where we should be headed and reflected a reaction to the direction under the previous leadership. They wanted WHO's Evidence and Information for Policy cluster to address the need for measurement , financing or human resourc...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by conflicts in agents’ beliefs, plans and actions. Despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolutionhas remained largely unaddressed. This paper presents CONSA, a system we are developing to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. CONSA ...

In this short paper we introduce some novel arguments based on legal cases represented as sets of dimensions. Although there has been much work on arguments based on factors, there has been relatively little recent work which has exploited dimensional representations. The arguments that we consider have a flavour quite distinct from those generated from cases represented as factors, which lack ...

Since electronic and open environments became a reality, computational models of trust and reputation have attracted increasing interest in the field of multi-agent systems (MAS), the . In virtual societies of human actors very well-known mechanisms are already used to control non normative agents, for instance, the eBay scoring system. In virtual societies of artificial and autonomous agents, ...