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This paper presents a system of argumentation which captures the kind of reasoning possible in qualitative probabilistic networks, including reasoning about expected utilities of actions and the propagation of synergies between actions. In these latter regards it is an extension of our previous work on systems of argumentation which reason with qualitative probabilities.
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Parsons, S., Green, S. (1999). Argumentation and Qualitative Decision Making. In: Hunter, A., Parsons, S. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1638. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48747-6_30
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