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It will then show how to visualize arguing agents. For single-agents, this involves visualization of the argumentation process and space within one agent. For multiple agents it leads to an animation of communicating agents and mapping of the relations between agents to a spatial distance. Two different layout algorithms and their pros and cons will be discussed.
Throughout the talk, there will be examples relating to the BT project Adept on negotiation and business processes and others taken from the Ultima Ratio project, which dealt with visualization of arguments in literature and which was exhibited at the Ars Electronica, Linz, and the Canon Art Lab, Tokyo. The speaker will show how the techniques introduced can be used in other domains such as model-based diagnosis (argumentation) and visualization of biological data (the layout algorithms). And last, not least, there will be an answer to the question of whether Hamlet should kill Claudius, or not!