Humans currently use arguments for explaining choices which are already made, or for evaluating potential choices. Each potential choice has usually pros and cons of various strengths. In spite of the usefulness of arguments in a decision making process, there have been few formal proposals handling this idea if we except works by Fox and Parsons and by Bonet and Geffner. In this paper we propo...

In this paper, we study the semantics for the logics of preference based on possibility theory. Possibility distributions representing the preference between worlds are associated with the possible world models for dynamic logics. Then the preference between actions are determined by comparing some measures of their consequences. We define different logics of preference by considering the compa...

Structural analysis and design optimization have recently been extended to the stochastic approach to consider various uncertainties. However, in areas where it is not possible to produce accurate statistical information for input data, the probabilistic method is not appropriate for stochastic structural analysis and design optimization, because improper modeling of uncertainty could cause a g...

This paper contrasts two metaphysical accounts of modality and properties: Modal Realism which treats possible entities as primitive; and Strong Dispositionalism in which metaphysical possibility and necessity are determined by actually existing dispositions or powers. I argue that Strong Dispositionalism loses its initial advantages of simplicity and parsimony over Modal Realism as it is exten...

We consider the definition of possibility measures on complete lattices rather than on complete Boolean algebras of sets. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the extendability of any mapping to such a possibility measure. We also associate two types of integrals with these possibility measures, and discuss some of their more important properties, amongst which a monotone convergenc...