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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-015-13-2653</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>I.2.4 - Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods</subject>
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        <article-title>Extended Defeasible Reasoning for Common Goals in n-Person Argumentation Games</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Pham</surname>
            <given-names>Duy Hoang</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">phamhduy@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Governatori</surname>
            <given-names>Guido</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Thakur</surname>
            <given-names>Subhasis</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam</addr-line>
        <institution>Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Hanoi</addr-line>
        <country>Vietnam</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line>
        <institution>NICTA, Queensland Research Laboratory</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Brisbane</addr-line>
        <country>Australia</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line>
        <institution>Griffith University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Brisbane</addr-line>
        <country>Australia</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Duy Hoang Pham (<email xlink:type="simple">phamhduy@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>15</volume>
      <issue>13</issue>
      <fpage>2653</fpage>
      <lpage>2675</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/A4399527-5559-58FB-A720-92B8EA59A0D3">A4399527-5559-58FB-A720-92B8EA59A0D3</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7000949">7000949</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Duy Hoang Pham, Guido Governatori, Subhasis Thakur</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Argumentation games have been proved to be a robust and flexible tool to resolveconflicts among agents. An agent can propose its explanation and its goal known as a claim, which can be refuted by other agents. The situation is more complicated when there are morethan two agents playing the game.  We propose a weighting mechanism for competing premises to tackle with conflicts from multipleagents in an n-person game. An agent can defend its proposal by giving a counter-argument to change the "opinion" of the majority of opposing agents. Furthermore, using the extendeddefeasible reasoning an agent can exploit the knowledge that other agents expose in order to promote and defend its main claim.</p>
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