Publications
2012
E.
Black and A. Hunter. A relevance-theoretic framework for constructing and
deconstructing enthymemes. Journal
of Logic and Computation, 22(1): 55-78,
2012.
DOI 10.1093/logcom/exp064
2011
E. Black and K. Bentley. An
empirical
study of a deliberation dialogue
system. In Proceedings of
the First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of
Formal Argumentation (TAFA11, Barcelona, Spain), 2011.
L. Riley, K. Atkinson, T. Payne and E. Black. An
implemented
dialogue
system for inquiry and persuasion. In Proceedings of the First International
Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
(TAFA11, Barcelona, Spain), 2011.
E. Black and K. Atkinson. Choosing
persuasive arguments for action. In Proceedings of the Tenth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS11,
Taipei, Taiwan), pp. 905-912, 2011. IFAAMAS.
E. Black and K. Atkinson. Choosing persuasive arguments for action: a technical report.
Technical Report ULCS-11-002,
University of Liverpool, 2011.
2010
J. Fox, D. Glasspool, V. Patkar, M. Austin, E. Black, M. South, D. Robertson and C. Vincent. Delivering clinical decision support services: There is nothing as practical as a good theory. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5):831-843, 2010.
E. Black and K. Atkinson.
Agreeing what to do. In Proceedings of the Sixth International
Workshop on Argumentation
in Multi-Agent Systems (ARGMAS10, Toronto, Canada), pp. 1-18,
2010.
E. Black, L. Floridi and A. Third (guest eds.). Synthese: Special Issue on the Nature and Scope of
Information, Vol. 175, Supplement 1, 2010.
2009
E. Black and A. Hunter. An inquiry dialogue system. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
19(2):173-209, 2009. Springer.
DOI 10.1007/s10458-008-9074-5
E. Black, A. Hunter and J. Z. Pan. An argument-based approach to using multiple
ontologies. In Proceedings of
the Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
(SUM09, Washington DC, USA), pp. 68-79, 2009.
E.Black, D. Glasspool, M. A. Grando, V. Patkar and J. Fox. Goal-based decisions for dynamic planning. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME09, Verona, Italy),
LNAI 5651, pp. 96-100, 2009. Springer-Verlag.
E. Black and K. Atkinson. Dialogues that account for different perspectives in
collaborative argumentation. In Proceedings
of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS09, Budapest, Hungary), pp. 867-874,
2009. IFAAMAS.
2008
E. Black and A. Hunter. Using enthymemes in an inquiry dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS08, Estoril, Portugal), pp. 437-444, 2008. IFAAMAS.
J. Fox, E. Black, I. Chronakis, R. Dunlop, V. Patkar,
M. South and R. Thomson. From
guidelines to careflows: modelling and supporting complex clinical
processes. In A. Ten Teije et al. (eds.), Computer-based
Medical Guidelines and Protocols: A Primer and Current Trends, pp.
44-62, IOS Press, 2008.
2007
E. Black and A. Hunter. A generative inquiry dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS07, Honolulu, Hawaii), pp. 1010-1017, 2007. IFAAMAS.
Awarded
best student paper prize.
E. Black. A Generative Framework for Argumentation-Based Inquiry
Dialogues. PhD thesis, Universisty College London, 2007.
2006
J. Fox, A. Alabassi, V. Patkar, T. Rose and E. Black. An ontological approach to modelling tasks and goals. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 36(7-8):837-856, 2006.
J. Fox, E. Black, D. Glasspool, S. Modgil, A.
Oettinger, V. Patkar and M. Williams. Towards a general model for argumentation services.
In T. Bickmore and N. Green (eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI Spring
Symposium Series (AAAI Technical Report SS-06-01), 2006.
J. Fox, V. Patkar, R. Thomson and E. Black. PROforma
guidelines and care pathways: performance in trials and future plans.
In Proceedings of Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Healthcare: Evidence-Based
Guidelines and Protocols (ECAI-06), 2006.
J. Fox, D. Glasspool, S. Modgil, P. Tolchinsky
and E. Black. Towards a canonical framework for designing agents to
support healthcare organisations. In Proceedings of Fourth
Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare (ECAI-06), 2006.
2005
J. Fox, A. Alabassi, E. Black, C. Hurt and T. Rose. Modelling clinical goals: a corpus of examples and a tentative ontology. In K. Kaiser, S. Miksch and S. Tu (eds.), Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerised Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004), pp. 31-45, IOS Press, 2004.
2004
E. Black. Using agent technology to model complex medical organisations. AgentLink News, issue 12, pp. 7-8, April 2003.