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Computational Opinions

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Matthias NicklesAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy

Pages 240 - 244

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with “objective” knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there has been almost no research on the formal modelling of opinions, i.e., communicatively asserted ostensible beliefs. This is highly surprising, since opinions are in fact the only publicly visible kind of knowledge in open systems, and can neither be reduced to objective knowledge nor to beliefs. In this paper, we propose a formal framework for the representation of dynamic, context-dependent and revisable opinions and ostensible intentions as a sound basis for the external description of agents as obtained from observable communication processes. Potential applications include a natural semantics of communicative acts exchanged between truly autonomous agents, and a fine-grained, statement-level concept of trust.

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Cited By

Nickles MCobos R(2008)An Approach to Description Logic with Support for Propositional Attitudes and Belief FusionUncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8(124-142)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8
Nickles M(2006)Modeling social attitudes on the webProceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web10.1007/11926078_38(529-543)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11926078_38

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Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy

May 2006

865 pages

ISBN:1586036424

Editors:
Gerhard Brewka
Leipzig University, Germany
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Silvia Coradeschi
Örebro University, Sweden
,
Anna Perini
SRA, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
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Paolo Traverso
SRA, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy

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Published: 22 May 2006

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Nickles MCobos R(2008)An Approach to Description Logic with Support for Propositional Attitudes and Belief FusionUncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8(124-142)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_8
Nickles M(2006)Modeling social attitudes on the webProceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web10.1007/11926078_38(529-543)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11926078_38

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