Gödel Fuzzy Argumentation Frameworks

Acknowledgements This work is supported by the Excellent Young Scholars Research Fund of Shandong Normal University. This research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence and was accomplished under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001.Publisher PD

Weighted logics for artificial intelligence : an introductory discussion

International audienceBefore presenting the contents of the special issue, we propose a structured introductory overview of a landscape of the weighted logics (in a general sense) that can be found in the Artificial Intelligence literature, highlighting their fundamental differences and their application areas

How does “collaboration” occur at all? Remarks on epistemological issues related to understanding / working with ‘the other’

Collaboration, if to occur successfully at all, needs to be based on careful representation and communication of each stakeholder’s knowledge. In this paper, we investigate, from a foundational logical and epistemological point of view, how such representation and communication can be accomplished. What we tentatively conclude, based on a careful delineation of the logical technicalities necessarily involved in such representation and communication, is that a complete representation is not possible. This inference, if correct, is of course rather discouraging with regard to what we can hope to achieve in the knowledge representations that we bring to our collaborations. We suggest two actions. First, we can strive to make all stakeholders more aware of the incompleteness of their knowledge representations. This awareness should serve to moderate one’s confidence in advocating for the “Truth” of her or his knowledge representations. Second, a moderation in one’s certainty of “Truth” should increase each stakeholder’s humility and respect for ‘the other’, thereby, promoting both the efficacy of collaborations and the ability to live helpfully in an increasing complex and needful world

How does “collaboration” occur at all? Remarks on epistemological issues related to understanding / working with ‘the other’

Collaboration, if to occur successfully at all, needs to be based on careful representation and communication of each stakeholder’s knowledge. In this paper, we investigate, from a foundational logical and epistemological point of view, how such representation and communication can be accomplished. What we tentatively conclude, based on a careful delineation of the logical technicalities necessarily involved in such representation and communication, is that a complete representation is not possible. This inference, if correct, is of course rather discouraging with regard to what we can hope to achieve in the knowledge representations that we bring to our collaborations. We suggest two actions. First, we can strive to make all stakeholders more aware of the incompleteness of their knowledge representations. This awareness should serve to moderate one’s confidence in advocating for the “Truth” of her or his knowledge representations. Second, a moderation in one’s certainty of “Truth” should increase each stakeholder’s humility and respect for ‘the other’, thereby, promoting both the efficacy of collaborations and the ability to live helpfully in an increasing complex and needful world

An Essay on the Ancient Ideal of ‘Enraonar’

‘Reasoning’ can be considered a general concept that, upon speaking, is the ‘enraonar’, a Catalan word that should not be mistaken with ‘explain’ nor with ‘discuss’ which imply more detail, and cover different situations. This article is presented as an essay on the ancient ideal of ‘enraonar’. To that end, it is explained in what sense ‘enraonar’ and reason are one of the most complex phenomena thought has to deal with. Here it is argued that these natural phenomena require a systematic and ‘scientific’ study, and that withoutthis knowledge computer science cannot simulate people’s every-day ‘enraonar’