Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation

by Douglas N. Walton

Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to other agents. Such agents also reason with each other when they engage in negotiation and persuasion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027218854
• ISBN13: 9789027218858
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"