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Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength (2023)
Journal Article
Zenker, F., Dębowska-Kozłowska, K., Godden, D., Selinger, M., & Wells, S. (2023). Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 68(1), 133-167. https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2023-0007

Different approaches analyze the strength of a natural language argument in different ways. This paper contrasts the dialectical, structural, probabilistic (or Bayesian), computational, and empirical approaches by exemplarily applying them to a singl... Read More about Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength.

Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues (2022)
Journal Article
Godden, D., & Wells, S. (2022). Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues. Informal Logic, 42(1), 291-342. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v42i1.7225

This paper considers the probative burdens of proposing action or policy options in deliberation dialogues. Do proposers bear a burden of proof? Building on pioneering work by Douglas Walton (2010), and following on a growing literature within comput... Read More about Burdens of Proposing: On the Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogues.

Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Khartabil, D., Collins, C., Wells, S., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389

This paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artefacts of reasoning widely used across domains such as education, policy making, and science. An argument i... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration.

Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Andras, P., Esterle, L., Guckert, M., Anh Han, T., Lewis, P. R., Milanovic, K., Payne, T., Perret, C., Pitt, J., Powers, S. T., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2018). Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems. IEEE technology & society magazine, 37(4), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2018.2876107

Intelligent machines have reached capabilities that go beyond a level that a human being can fully comprehend without sufficiently detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The choice of moves in the game Go (generated by Deep Mind?s Alpha... Read More about Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems.

Information Diffusion in Multi-Agent Communities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2017, June). Information Diffusion in Multi-Agent Communities. Paper presented at 6th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association, Moncalieri, Italy

Understanding the course of events when newly launched products penetrate a market, and how those products supersede existing dominant products, is crucial. Besides potential applications for business purposes the ability to simulate scenarios to mod... Read More about Information Diffusion in Multi-Agent Communities.

Ontology Based Business Simulations (2016)
Journal Article
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2016). Ontology Based Business Simulations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.3266

Within business games there is a need to provide realistic feedback for decisions made, if such business games are to continue to remain relevant in increasingly complex business environments. We address this problem by using soware agents to simula... Read More about Ontology Based Business Simulations.

Using argumentation within sustainable transport communication (2016)
Book Chapter
Wells, S., & Pangbourne, K. (2016). Using argumentation within sustainable transport communication. In Argumentation and Reasoned Action Volume 1 (781-801). College Publications

In this paper we present the preliminary results of a survey of persuasive communication within the sustainable transport domain. This survey is underpinned by a reconstruction of the arguments used, a scheme oriented analysis of the corpus of recon... Read More about Using argumentation within sustainable transport communication.

Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation (2016)
Book Chapter
Wells, S. (2016). Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation. In Argumentation and Reasoned Action Volume 2 (1045-1063). College Publications

We introduce combinatorial dialogue games, an approach to strategizing within argumentative dialogue games where the moves played are interpreted as moves within an edge addition and/or edge-removal combinatorial game. This enables an agent to reason... Read More about Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation.

Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., Yuan, T., Manandhar, S., & Kelly, T. (2015, October). Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments. Paper presented at 15th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument(CMNA15), Bertinoro, Italy

Safety cases play a significant role in the development of safety-critical systems. The key components in a safety case are safety arguments, that are designated to demonstrate that the system is acceptably safe. Inappropriate reasoning with safety a... Read More about Automatically Detecting Fallacies in System Safety Arguments.

Introducing ALIAS (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & LaGreca, R. (2015, October). Introducing ALIAS. Paper presented at 15th International Workshop on Computation Models of Natural Argument

ALIAS is a Python library for constructing, manipulating, storing, visualising, and converting argumentation structues. It is available with full source code under a copyleft license and aims to become a Swiss Army Knife for working with arguments in... Read More about Introducing ALIAS.

Using Argumentation Within Sustainable Transport Communication (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & Pangbourne, K. (2015, June). Using Argumentation Within Sustainable Transport Communication. Paper presented at 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action (ECA15)

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Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S. (2015, June). Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation. Paper presented at 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action (ECA15)

This paper introduces combinatorial dialogue, a formal approach to strategising within argumentative dialogue games where the moves played within a dialogue game are interpreted as moves within an edge-addition and/or edge-removal combinatorial game.... Read More about Combinatorial Dialogue Games in Strategic Argumentation.

Supporting argumentation schemes in argumentative dialogue games. (2014)
Journal Article
Wells, S. (2014). Supporting argumentation schemes in argumentative dialogue games. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 36, 171-191. https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2014-0009

This paper reports preliminary work into the exploitation of argu- mentation schemes within dialogue games. We identify a property of dialogue games that we call “scheme awareness” that captures the relationship between dialogue game systems and argu... Read More about Supporting argumentation schemes in argumentative dialogue games..

Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility (2014)
Journal Article
Gabrielli, S., Forbes, P., Jylha, A., Wells, S., Sirén, M., Hemminki, S., Nurmi, P., Maimone, R., Masthoff, J., & Jacucci, G. (2014). Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility. Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.026

In recent years, the design and deployment of persuasive interventions for inducing sustainable urban mobility behaviors has become a very active research field, leveraging on the pervasive usage of social media and mobile apps by citizens in their d... Read More about Design challenges in motivating change for sustainable urban mobility.

Towards using segmentation-based techniques to personalize mobility behaviour Interventions (2014)
Journal Article
Forbes, P., Gabrielli, S., Maimone, R., Masthoff, J., Wells, S., & Jylha, A. (2014). Towards using segmentation-based techniques to personalize mobility behaviour Interventions. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems, 14(4), https://doi.org/10.4108/amsys.1.4.e4

This paper describes our initial work towards a segmentation-based approach to personalized digital behavior change interventions in the domain of sustainable, multi-modal urban transport. Segmentation is a key concept in market research, and within... Read More about Towards using segmentation-based techniques to personalize mobility behaviour Interventions.

Towards an Applied Gamification Model for Tracking, Managing, & Encouraging Sustainable Travel Behaviours (2014)
Journal Article
Wells, S., Kotkanen, H., Schlafli, M., Gabrielli, S., Masthoff, J., Jylhä, A., & Forbes, P. (2014). Towards an Applied Gamification Model for Tracking, Managing, & Encouraging Sustainable Travel Behaviours. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems, 1(4), Article e2. https://doi.org/10.4108/amsys.1.4.e2

In this paper we introduce a gamification model for encouraging sustainable multi-modal urban travel in modern European cities. Our aim is to provide a mechanism that encourages users to reflect on their current travel behaviours and to engage in mor... Read More about Towards an Applied Gamification Model for Tracking, Managing, & Encouraging Sustainable Travel Behaviours.

Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., Kotkanen, H., Schlafli, M., Gabrielli, S., Masthoff, J., Jylha, A., & Forbes, P. (2014, May). Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours. Paper presented at First Urban Sustainable, CollaboratIve, and Adaptive MObility (USCIAMO) Workshop

In this paper we introduce a gamification model for encouraging sustainable multi-modal urban travel in modern European cities. Our aim is to provide a mechanism that encourages users to reflect on their current travel behaviours and to engage in mor... Read More about Towards an applied gamification model for tracking, managing, & encouraging sustainable travel behaviours..

Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wells, S., & Snaith, M. (2022, September). Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games. Presented at 22nd Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Cardiff, Wales

Prohibition of repeated statements has benefits for the tractability and predictability of dialogues carried out by machines, but doesn’t match the real world behaviour of people. This gap between human and machine behaviour leads to problems when fo... Read More about Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games.