ArguGrid Project


  1. ✤Vision of EU-funded ARGUGRID project aims at

    1. ✴Providing a new model for programming the Grid at a semantic, knowledge-based level of abstraction through the use of argumentative agent technology. Agents are associated with service/resource requestors and service/resource providers on the Grid. Argumentation technology is used to support rational decision making, internal to agents, as well as negotiation, amongst agents, all required to facilitate the dynamic composition of Grid services/resources into executable workflows. Argumentation is also used to support the creation, management and dynamic evolution of Virtual Organizations, understood as societies of agents, to compose individual services into more complex ones.

    2. ✴Making an impact upon the Grid research area via the new model, as well as a corresponding system architecture supporting agents, their interactions, Virtual Organizations and web service standards, and a platform supporting the implementation of the models over the Grid via peer-to-peer and overlay network techniques. It also aims at impacting business and business practices, by empowering Grid-enabled e-business application where multiple service providers and requesters exist. Although focussing on e-business scenarios, its results will be outreaching to all kinds of applications empowered by the Grid.


  3. ✤Consortium

    1. ✴Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

    2. ✴Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    3. ✴Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa University, Italy

    4. ✴Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    5. ✴School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

    6. ✴InforSense LTD UK

    7. ✴GMV S.A., Spain

    8. ✴cosmoONE Hellas MarketSite S.A, Greece


  5. ✤Demo system under ArguGrid: MOdular argumentation for DIspute ResOlution (MoDiSo version 0.5)


  1. ✤Publications under ArguGrid:


            2009

    1. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang: Modular Argumentation For Modelling Legal Doctrines in Common Law of Contract, Artificial Intelligence and Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 167-182, Springer Verlag, September, 2009.

    2. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang: An Unified Framework for Dialectical Proof Procedure in Argumentation, In Proceedings of International Joint conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009), Pasadena, California, USA, Springer Verlag, 2009.

    3. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Do Duc Hanh, Phan Minh Thang: Stabilization of Information Sharing for Queries Answering in Multiagent Systems, In Proceedings of International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009), Pasadena, California, USA, Springer Verlag, 2009.

    4. ✴Phan Minh Thang, Phan Minh Dung, Nguyen Duy Hung: Toward a Common Framework for Dialectical Proof Procedure in Abstract Argumentation, Journal of Logic and Computation, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 1071- 1109, Oxford University Press, June, 2009.

    5. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang, Nguyen Duy Hung: Modular Argumentation for Modelling Legal Doctrines of Performance Relief, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL09), Barcelona, Spain, ACM Press, June, 2009.

    6. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang, Nguyen Duy Hung: Argument-based Decision Making and Negotiation in E-business: Contracting a Land Lease for a Computer Assembly Plant. CLIMA 2008, Springer-Verlag, 2009.

    7. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Robert A. Kowalski, and Francesca Toni: Assumption-based Argumentation, Argumentation in AI, I. Rahwan and G. Simari (Eds.), 199-218, Springer 2009.


            2008

    1. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang: Modular Argumentation For Modelling Legal Doctrines in Common Law of Contract. JURIX08, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 189, pp. 108-117, IOS Press, 2008.

    2. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang: Towards an Argument-based Model of Legal Doctrines in Common Law of Contracts CLIMA 2008.

    3. ✴Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang, Francesca Toni: Towards argumentation-based contract negotiation.  COMMA08, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 172, pp. 134-146, IOS Press, 2008.


            2007

    1. ✴Phan Minh Dung and Phan Minh Thang: A Sound and Complete Dialectical Proof Procedure for Sceptical Preferred Argumentation Proceedings LPNMR-Workshop on Argumentation and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (ArgNMR07), May 2007, Arizona, U.S.A.