Section: Application Domains

Agronomy

Within this field, we investigate two different agronomy scenarios: (1) in the context of a public health controversy about bread making, choosing between different kinds of flour in function of nutritional, economic, health and other criteria and (2) designing ecoefficient and biodegradable packaging. The second scenario is part of a larger decision support system implemented within the EU FP7 project EcoBioCap (see Section  8.2 ).

Both scenarios rely upon different criteria which bring conflicting information for decision making. The aim is then twofold. First to properly model the knowledge using facts, rules and negative constraints. Then, in a second step, in the possibly inconsistent knowledge base thus obtained, to select maximally consistent subsets that will be used for decision making. We have chosen to use argumentation in this context (of reasoning in the presence of inconsistency) due to the fact that we aim to investigate, in the future, the explanation power of argumentation approaches (very useful in this context where the domain experts are not computer scientists).