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                                   MARGO 
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                    by Maxime Morge and Paolo Mancarella
                          {morge,paolo}@di.unipi.it

MARGO -- A Multiattribute ARGumentation framework for Opinion explanation.
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INTRODUCTION
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MARGO implements an Argumentation Framework for decision making. A
logic language is used as a concrete data structure for holding the
statements like knowledge, goals, and decisions. Different qualitative
or quantitative priorities are attached to these items corresponding
to the probability of the knowledge, the preferences between goals,
and the expected utilities of decisions. These concrete data
structures consist of information providing the backbone of
arguments. Due to the abductive nature of decision making, arguments
are built by reasoning backwards, possibly by making
suppositions. Moreover, arguments are tree-like structures and could
have a weight. In this way, our MARGO evaluates the possible actions,
suggests some solutions, and provides an interactive and intelligible
explanation of the choice made.

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://margo.sourceforge.net/
Projects Admins: Maxime Morge
Development Status: Beta
License: OSI Approved GNU General Public License (GPL)
Dependencies: CaSAPI
Actual version: margo-1.1
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>
Paolo Mancarella <paolo@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.