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Identification, modelling and processing of the critical cases of communication

Pierre Bisquert

INRA, France & ILLC, Netherlands

October 12th 2015

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Background

Research experiences

◮ PhD in Artificial Intelligence

IRIT, Toulouse (2010 – 2013) Study of Change in Abstract Argumentation

◮ Research scientist

INRA Montpellier (since 2014) Knowledge Engineering group, IATE

Research interests

◮ Knowledge representation and reasoning ◮ Argumentation and deliberation ◮ Social choice Pierre Bisquert AgreenSkills October 12th 2015 2 / 7

Research Unit & Team

Unit: Agropolymers and emerging technologies (Inra, Montpellier) “Improving knowledge about the capabilities

• f plant products and their constituents in or-

der to increase their performance for both food and non-food uses.” Team: Knowledge Engineering group “Developing innovative knowledge and data treatment methods and tools in order to pro- vide decision support systems.”

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Research Unit & Team

Unit: Agropolymers and emerging technologies (Inra, Montpellier) “Improving knowledge about the capabilities

• f plant products and their constituents in or-

der to increase their performance for both food and non-food uses.” Team: Knowledge Engineering group “Developing innovative knowledge and data treatment methods and tools in order to pro- vide decision support systems.”

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Decision Support & Argumentation

Argumentation:

◮ Mono-agent: reasoning ◮ Multi-agent: interaction (debate)

Problem:

◮ People are not necessarily rational ◮ People are not necessarily cooperative

Which means:

◮ People can be persuaded by “bad” arguments ◮ People can try to manipulate (fallacious arguments, lies, etc.)

⇒ Protection of deliberation from “bad processes”

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The Democracy Problem

Deliberation may not lead to unanimity

⇒ Vote

Voting procedure that retains the quality

⇒ Democracy

Social choice & democracy

◮ Universality ◮ Unanimity ◮ Independence of irrelevant alternatives ◮ Non-dictatorship Pierre Bisquert AgreenSkills October 12th 2015 5 / 7

The Democracy Problem

Deliberation may not lead to unanimity

⇒ Vote

Voting procedure that retains the quality

⇒ Democracy

Social choice & democracy

◮ Universality ◮ Unanimity ◮ Independence of irrelevant alternatives ◮ Non-dictatorship

Arrow’s impossibility theorem: “There is no social choice function (no voting procedure) that satisfies the previous axioms.”

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Research Project

With a little bit of

◮ Argumentation theory ◮ Logic ◮ Social choice ◮ Psychology

Is it possible to define a protocol that will

◮ Detect the negative argumentative processes ◮ Protect the deliberators ◮ Provide a reliable and democratic voting procedure

In order to have a high-quality decision? ⇒ Destination: Logic and Computation team (ILLC, Amsterdam)

◮ Ulle Endriss Pierre Bisquert AgreenSkills October 12th 2015 6 / 7

Thank you!

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