Argument Schemes and a Dialogue System for Explainable Planning
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
Reference | Foundation | AF | Contributions |
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Atkinson and Bench-Capon [2] | AATS | VAF | AATS based on agent’s knowledge of actions and the values they promote. |
Oren [25] | AATS | ExAF \(^{1}\) | Argument scheme-based approach for normative practical reasoning. |
Toniolo et al. [34] | SC \(^{2}\) | BAF \(^{3}\) | Argumentation-based approach for the collaborative planning problem in teams of agents. |
Shams et al. [30] | A STRIPS-based planning language | AAF \(^{4}\) | Argumentation-based framework for planning problems in normative environments. |
Fan [12] | A STRIPS-based planning language | ABA | Assumption-based Argumentation Framework for generating explainable plans. |
Caminada et al. [8], Oren et al. [26] | A STRIPS-based planning language | ASPIC [23] | Argumentation and natural language generation for plan explanation. |
Mahesar and Parsons (Current Work) | A PDDL-based planning language [17] | AAF | Argument scheme-based approach and a dialogue system for explainable planning. |
3 Argumentation Model
4 Planning Model
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5 Argument Schemes for Explaining Plans
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5.1 Properties to Evaluate the Plan Explanation Arguments
Purpose | Lemmas Followed | |
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Lemma 5.1 | Argument Completeness | — |
Lemma 5.2 | Argument Interaction | 5.1 |
Lemma 5.3 | Goal Achievement | — |
Lemma 5.4 | Action Execution | — |
Lemma 5.5 | State Existence | — |
Theorem 5.1 | Valid and Suitable Plan | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 |
Theorem 5.2 | Not Valid and Not Suitable Plan | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 |
6 Dialogue System Using Argument Schemes and Critical Questions
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6.1 Properties to Evaluate the Dialogue System
6.2 Example of a Dialogue
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7 Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgments
Footnotes
References
Index Terms
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