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                                   GASPAR 
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                    		   by Maxime Morge
                          	   morge@di.unipi.it

GASPAR is an Argumentation System for Performing an ARtilect
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INTRODUCTION
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GASPAR implements an dialectical argumentation framework for
instantiating the artificial intellect (artilect for short) of a
software agent. In this artilect, motivations are represented in
internal processes called mental faculties. A faculty is a component
which encapsulates different goals, decisions or beliefs to support
the motivations it is responsible for, and can join the debate to
argue why and how these motivations can be adopted by the artilect as
a whole.  We view motivations as arguments describing the ways to
achieve goals related to the whole interest of the artilect arbitrated
by a personality driving its behaviour. GASPAR implements the
argumentation as well as the dialogue-game that is played by the
faculties which can dynamically join the game. GASPAR considers
assumption-based argumentation to instantiated this internal
dialectical process within this modular architecture.  

This README is very sparse, look for more details at the doc directory
if this is insufficient.

PROJECT FEATURES
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Homepage: http://gaspar.sourceforge.net/
Projects Admins: Maxime Morge
Development Status: Beta
License: OSI Approved GNU General Public License (GPL)
Dependencies: none
Actual version: gaspar-0.1
Operating System: OS Independent
Programming Languages: Prolog
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Translations: English
User Interface: Java Swing

CONTACT US
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If there are any rough areas or problems, 
please feel free to report them and assist us in correcting it:
Maxime Morge <morge@di.unipi.it>

COPYRIGHT
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COPYRIGHT of all files Maxime Morge and Paolo Mancarella (C) 2007-2008. 
All rights reserved.
Exception for the following files:
- COPYING Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA;
- all files in the directory ext/ 
  See COPYRIGHT 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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This work is supported by the Sixth Framework IST programme of
the EC, under the 035200 ARGUGRID project.