Alejandro J. García - Selected Publications

Master and Doctoral Thesis (Tesis de Magister y Doctoral)

1.    PhD Thesis: Defeasible Logic Programming: Language, Operational Semantics and Parallelism (only available in Spanish) Programación en Lógica Rebatible: Lenguaje, Semántica Operacional y Paralelismo Alejandro J. García. Tesis de Doctor en Ciencias de la Computación. Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 13 de febrero de 2001. Download: pdf   - ps.zip

2.    Master Thesis: (only available in Spanish) La programación en lógica rebatible, su definición teórica y computacional. Alejandro J. García. Tesis de Magíster en Ciencias de la Computación. Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 6 agosto de 1997. Download: pdf  -  ps.zip

Selected Publications

1.    Mariano Tucat, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Using Defeasible Logic Programming with Contextual Queries for developing Recommender Servers.  In The Uses of Computational Argumentation, AAAI Fall Symposium, Nov 2009, T. Bench-Capone S. Parsons, and H. Prakken Editors. Technical Report FS-09-06. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. pp. 64-69. ISBN 979-1-57735-440-6.

2.    Sebastian Gottifredi, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Argumentation Systems and Agent Programming Languages. In The Uses of Computational Argumentation, AAAI Fall Symposium, Nov 2009, T. Bench-Capone S. Parsons, and H. Prakken Editors. Technical Report FS-09-06. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. pp. 27-32. ISBN 979-1-57735-440-6.

3.    Alejandro J. García, Nicolás D. Rotstein, Carlos I. Chesñevar, and Guillermo R. Simari Explaining Why Something is Warranted in Defeasible Logic Programming. IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2009). Págs 25-36. Pasadena, USA, July 2009.

4.    Martin O. Moguillansky, Nicolás D. Rotstein, Alejandro J. Garcia, Marcelo A. Falappa and Guillermo R. Simari. Argument Theory Change Through Defeater Activation. IJCAI-09 workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA IX). Págs. 24-33. Pasadena, USA, July 13th, 2009.

5.    Luciano H. Tamargo, Alejandro J. García, Marcelo A. Falappa and Guillermo R. Simari. A Belief Revision Approach to Inconsistency Handling in Multi-Agent Systems. IJCAI-09 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC 09). Pp 63-70. Pasadena, USA, July 11th, 2009.

6.    Patrick Krümpelmann, Luciano H. Tamargo, Alejandro J. García, and Marcelo Falappa. Forwarding Credible Information in Multi-agent Systems Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. (in press) pp  Dimitris Karagianis, Zhi Jin (Eds.) Springer-Verlag. Proc. of the Third Int. Conf. on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management KSEM 2009, (2009).

7.    Diego C. Martínez, Alejandro J. García and Guillermo R. Simari. Strong and weak forms of abstract argument defense. Computational Models of Arguments, Vol. 172 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 216—227.   Ph. Besnard, S. Doutre and A. Hunter (Eds.) IOS Press ISSN 0922-6389, ISBN: 978-1-58603-859-5. (2008)

8.    Edgardo Ferretti, Marcelo Errecalde, Alejandro García, and Guillermo Simari. Decision Rules and Arguments in Defeasible Decision Making. Computational Models of Arguments, Vol. 172 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 171—182. Ph. Besnard, S. Doutre and A. Hunter (Eds.) IOS Press ISSN 0922-6389, ISBN: 978-1-58603-859-5. (2008)

9.    Nicolás D. Rotstein, Martín O. Moguillansky, Marcelo A. Falappa, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Argument Theory Change: Revision Upon Warrant Second Computational Models of Arguments, Vol. 172 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 336—347. Ph. Besnard, S. Doutre and A. Hunter (Eds.) IOS Press ISSN 0922-6389, ISBN: 978-1-58603-859-5. (2008).

10.  Nicolás D. Rotstein, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Defeasible Argumentation Support for an Extended BDI Architecture. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 4946  pp. 145–163, 2008. I. Rahwan, S. Parsons, and C. Reed (Eds.): ArgMAS 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2008). ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN 978-3-540-78914-7.

11.  Diego R. Garcia, Alejandro J. García and Guillermo R. Simari. Defeasible Reasoning and Partial Order Planning. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 4932 pp 311-328. S. Hartmann and G. Kern-Isberner (Eds.) Springer-Verlag. Proc. of the Fifth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS). (2008). ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN 978-3-540-77683-3.

12.  Alejandro J. Garcia, Nicolas D. Rotstein, Mariano Tucat y Guillermo R. Simari. An  Argumentative Reasoning Service for Deliberative Agents. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 4798 pp 128-139. Z. Zhang and J. Siekmann (Eds.) Springer-Verlag. Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2007) Melbourne, Australia, (2007).

13.  Diego C. Martínez, Alejandro J. García, and Guillermo R. Simari. On defense strength of blocking defeaters in admissible sets Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 4798 pp 140-152. Z. Zhang and J. Siekmann (Eds.) Springer-Verlag. Proc. of the Second Int. Conf. on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management KSEM 2007, (2007). ISSN: 0302-9743.  ISBN 978-3-540-76718-3.

14.  Alejandro J. García, Nicolás D. Rotstein, Guillermo R. Simari. Dialectical Explanations in Defeasible Argumentation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 4724 pp 295-307. Khaled Mellouli (Ed.). Springer-Verlag. Proc. of Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, (2007). ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN 978-3-540-75255-4

15.  Edgardo Ferretti, Marcelo Errecalde, Alejandro J. Garcia, Guillermo R. Simari. An Application of Defeasible Logic Programming to Decision Making in a Robotic Environment. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 4483, pp 297-302. C. Baral, G. Brewka, and J. Schlipf (Eds.) Springer-Verlag. Proc. of the Ninth Int. Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 07) Tempe, USA, (2007). ISBN 978-3-540-72199-4.

16.  Nicolás D. Rotstein, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Reasoning from Desires to Intentions: A Dialectical Framework. Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) Canada, July 2007.

17.  Diego R. García, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari. Planning and Defeasible Reasonning. Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS07).  Hawaii, May 2007.

18.  Nicolás D. Rotstein, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari.  From Desires to Intentions Through Dialectical Analysis. Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS07).  Hawaii, May 2007.

19.  Alejandro J. García, Carlos I. Chesñevar, Nicolás D. Rotstein, and Guillermo R. Simari An Abstract Presentation of Dialectical Explanations in Defeasible Argumentation. First international workshop on Argumentation and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (ArgNMR 07), pp. 17-32. Tempe, USA, May 2007.

20.  Diego C. Martínez, Alejandro J. García and Guillermo R. Simari. Modelling Well-structured Argumentation Lines. Proc. of the 20th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp. 465-467. Hyberabad, India, January 2007.

21.  Rueda Sonia V., García Alejandro J. and Simari Guillermo R. Collaboration through Deliberative Dialogues. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 7  n. 2. pp 125-133. ISSN: 1666-6038  (2007).

22.  Martínez Diego C., García Alejandro J. and Simari Guillermo R. On Acceptability in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with an Extended Defeat Relation. Computational Models of Arguments, Vol. 144 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 273—278.  P. E. Dunne and T. J. M. Bench-Capon (Eds.)  ISSN 0922-6389, ISBN 1-58603-652-1. (2006)

23.  Diego C. Martínez, Alejandro J. García y Guillermo R. Simari. Progressive Defeat Paths in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp 242—253. Luc Lamnontagne, Mario Marchand (Eds.)  Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, Québec, Canada, June 2006. ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 3-540-34628-7. (2006)

24.  Edgardo Ferretti, Marcelo Errecalde, Alejandro J. García, and Guillermo Simari. KheDeLP: A Framework to Support Defeasible Logic Programming for the Khepera Robots. pp 98—103.  International Symposium on Robotics and Automation (ISRA 2006)  R. V. Mayorga and O. A. Domínguez R. (Eds.)  ISBN 970-769-070-4.

25.  Nicolás D. Rotstein and Alejandro J. García. Defeasible reasoning about beliefs and desires. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR2006), Pp 429-436. June 2006, Lake District UK. ISSN: 1860-8477

26.  Tucat Mariano and García Alejandro J. Processing Interaction Protocols in Parallel: a Logic Programming implementation for Robotic Soccer. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 5 n. 4. pp 232-238. ISSN: 1666-6038  (2005)

27.  García Alejandro J, and Simari Guillermo R.  Defeasible logic programming: An argumentative approach. Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Vol 4(1-2) pp 95-138. Cambridge University Press. UK (2004)

28.  Marcelo A. Falappa, Alejandro J. García y Guillermo R. Simari. Belief Dynamics and Defeasible Argumentation in Rational Agents. 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning NMR2004, Whistler BC, Canada.

29.  Guillermo R. Simari, Alejandro J. García y Marcela Capobianco. Actions, Planning and Defeasible Reasoning. 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning NMR2004, Whistler BC, Canada.

30.  Stolzenburg Frieder, García Alejandro J., Chesñevar Carlos I., and Simari Guillermo R. Computing Generalized Specificity. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, Volume 13 No. 1/2003. pp 87-113. Ed. Lavoisier. Paris, France. (2003)

31.  Rueda Sonia V., García Alejandro J. and Simari Guillermo R. Argument-based Negotiation among BDI Agents. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 2 n. 7. pp 1-8. ISSN: 1666-6038  October 2002.

32.  García Alejandro J, and Simari Guillermo R. Parallel Defeasible Argumentation. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 1 n.2 pp 37-51. Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Evolutive Computation. ISSN:1666-6038. (2000).

33.  C. Chesñevar, G. Simari y A. García. Pruning Search Space in Defeasible Argumentation. Proc. of Workshop on Advances and Trends in Search in Artificial Intelligence, págs 40-47, Conf. Internacional de la Sociedad Chilena en Ciencia de la Computación, Santiago, Chile, 2000.

34.  Alejandro J. García y Guillermo R. Simari. Strong and Default Negation in Defeasible Logic Programming. Proc. of DGNMR'99 Dutch-German Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning Techniques and Their Applications, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 25-27, 1999.

35.  García, G. Simari, C. Chesñevar. An Argumentative Framework for Reasoning with Inconsistent and Incomplete Information. Proc. of III Workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality, pp 13-19, Conferencia Europea de Inteligencia Artificial, ECAI'98, Brighton, Inglaterra, 24 de Agosto de 1998.

36.  G. Simari y A. García. A Knowledge-Represention Language for Defeasible Argumentation. Actas de la XXI Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, págs 661-672. Canela, Brasil. Agosto de 1995.

37.  G. Simari, C. Chesñevar y A. García. The Role of Dialectics in Defeasible Argumentation. Actas de la XIV Conferencia Internacional de la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencia de la Computación, págs. 111-121. Concepción, Chile, noviembre de 1994.

38.  G. Simari, C. Chesñevar y A. García. Focusing Inference in Defeasible Argumentation. Proc. of IV Iberoamerican Congress on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA'94), Venezuela, octubre de 1994.

39.  García, C. Chesñevar y G. Simari. Making Argument Systems Computationally Atractive. Proceedings of the XIII International Conference of the Chilean Society for Computer Science, págs. 335-344, La Serena, Chile, octubre de 1993.

The complete list can be found here (La lista completa puede encontrarse aquí)