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title: "Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue"
authors:
  - "Zohreh Shams"
  - "Marina De Vos"
  - "Nir Oren"
  - "Julian A. Padget"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/180"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/0180.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2016
pages: "1244-1249"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Normative Practical Reasoning via Argumentation and Dialogue

Zohreh Shams, Marina De Vos, Nir Oren, Julian A. Padget

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1244-1249.

## Abstract

In a normative environment an agent's actions are not only directed by its goals but also by norms. Here, potential conflicts among the agent's goals and norms makes decision-making challenging. We therefore seek to answer the following questions: (i) how should an agent act in a normative environment? and (ii) how can the agent explain why it acted in a certain way? We propose a solution in which a normative planning problem serves as the basis for a practical reasoning approach based on argumentation. The properties of the best plan(s) w.r.t. goal achievement and norm compliance are mapped to arguments that are used to explain why a plan is justified, using a dialogue game.