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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">1822-8844</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn-l>0868-4952</issn-l>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics</publisher-name>
				<publisher-loc>Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania</publisher-loc>
			</publisher>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFO579</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2005.080</article-id>
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				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Research Article</subject>
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			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Probabilistic Argumentation Systems with Decision Variables</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<name>
						<surname>Anrig</surname>
						<given-names>Bernhard</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:bernhard.anrig@hti.bfh.ch">bernhard.anrig@hti.bfh.ch</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_info579_aff_001">a</xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<name>
						<surname>Baziukaitė</surname>
						<given-names>Dalia</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:dalia.baziukaite@ik.ku.lt">dalia.baziukaite@ik.ku.lt</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_info579_aff_002">b</xref>
				</contrib>
				<aff id="j_info579_aff_001">
					<label>a</label>
					<institution>Berne University of Applied Sciences</institution>, School of Engineering and Information Technology, CH 2501 Biel, <country>Switzerland</country>
				</aff>
				<aff id="j_info579_aff_002">
					<label>b</label>
					<institution>Klaipėda University</institution>, Department of Computer Science, LT 92294 Klaipėda, <country>Lithuania</country>
				</aff>
			</contrib-group>
			<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
				<year>2005</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>16</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<fpage>3</fpage>
			<lpage>18</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>1</day>
					<month>7</month>
					<year>2004</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<permissions>
				<copyright-statement>© 2005 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius</copyright-statement>
				<copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
				<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
					<license-p>Open access article under the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</ext-link> license.</license-p>
				</license>
			</permissions>
			<abstract>
				<p>The general concept of probabilistic argumentation systems PAS is restricted to the two types of variables: assumptions, which model the uncertain part of the knowledge, and propositions, which model the rest of the information. Here, we introduce a third kind into PAS: so-called decision variables. This new kind allows to describe the decisions a user can make to react on some state of the system. Such a decision allows then possibly to reach a certain goal state of the system. Further, we present an algorithm, which exploits the special structure of PAS with decision variables.</p>
			</abstract>
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				<label>Key words</label>
				<kwd>argumentation systems</kwd>
				<kwd>probabilistic reasoning</kwd>
				<kwd>decision</kwd>
				<kwd>uncertainty</kwd>
				<kwd>reliability</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
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