DIT PhD Project
Supervisor name & contact details:
Name
Email
Luca Longo
luca.longo@dit.ie
Supervisors Profile:
Web-link
www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca_Longo/
Research Centre (if applicable):
The Applied Intelligence Research Centre
The Applied Intelligence Research Centre
researches the application of computational
intelligence technologies to real world problems.
The core competencies of the AIRC include
machine learning, language technologies,
intelligent agents and data analytics.
Research Centre website (if applicable):
http://www.comp.dit.ie/aigroup/
Supervisors Publication List:
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca_Longo/
publications/
Title of the Project: Enhancing Decision-Making with Argumentation Theory
Project Summary:
Argumentation theory (AT) is a new important multi-disciplinary topic in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that
incorporates element of philosophy, psychology and sociology and that studies how people reason and
express their arguments. It systematically investigates how arguments can be built, sustained or
discarded in a defeasible reasoning process and the validity of the conclusions reached through
resolutions of potential inconsistencies. Because of its simplicity and modularity compared to other
reasoning approaches, AT has gaining importance for enhancing decision-making.
This project aims to study the impact of defeasible reasoning and formal models of argumentation
theory for supporting and enhancing decision-making. Multiple fields of application will be tested
against state-of-the-art approaches: decision-making in health care, multi-agent systems, trust and the
Web.
Ciência sem Fronteiras / Science Without Borders Priority Area:
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)