Argumentation and Risk Assessment

Predictive Toxicology of Chemicals: Experiences and Impact of AI Tools

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Predictive Toxicology of Chemicals: Experiences and Impact of AI Tools

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Over the last ten years we have been involved in the development of a formal framework for decision making and reasoning under uncertainty based on "argumentation". The latter provides a way of managing uncertainty which differs from probabilistic inference and is particularly valuable in those many practical situations where uncertainty cannot be quantified. Recently we have been applying argumentation as a non-numerical method of risk assessment.