An Argumentation System for the Web
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Hermes is an Argumentation
System for cooperative or non-cooperative type of discussions on the Web. It provides
means of expressing and weighing individual arguments
and preferences, in order to support or challenge the selection
of a certain choice. The system supports defeasible
and qualitative reasoning in the presence of ill-structured
information. Argumentation
is performed through a set of discourse acts which call a
variety of procedures for the propagation of information in the corresponding
discussion graph.
Hermes can be used by groups of agents to
express their claims and judgements, aiming at informing or convincing, depending on
the kind of the interaction. Unlike most current systems which merely provide threaded,
hierarchical discussion forums (for an online survey
click here),
the system includes reasoning
mechanisms that monitor the discussion, performing consistency
checking and constantly updating the status of the
argumentative discourse according to the proof standards
involved.
Hermes focuses on distributed, asynchronous collaboration, allowing agents to surpass the requirements of being in the same place and working at the same time. In order to achieve portability and inexpensive access it is implemented in Java. It can be run using the World Wide Web and any standard browser.
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