States, goals and values: Revisiting practical reasoning

@article{Atkinson2016StatesGA,
  title={States, goals and values: Revisiting practical reasoning},
  author={Katie Atkinson and Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon},
  journal={Argument Comput.},
  year={2016},
  volume={7},
  pages={135-154}
}
In this paper we address some limitations with proposals concerning an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning grounded on action-based alternating transition systems augmented with values. In particular, we extend the machinery to enable the proper representation of, and ability to reason with, goals. This allows the more satisfactory representation of certain critical questions, and the means to explicitly record differences between agents as to what will count as the fulfillment of… 
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