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MARGO needs you

Pisa, May 14, 2008 - The fourth annual Community Choice Awards allows the community to recognize open source software projects that are built with the highest quality, creativity and ingenuity. The finalists are not choosen by a panel of experts but by the community. That's why MARGO need your nominations. The nominations are accepted until May 29th and the ten projects with the most nominations in each category will become finalists. Support MARGO.sf.net, nominate it. The projects that mobilize their communities are usually the ones that win (-:

MARGO 1.1b Stable released

Pisa, May 14, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 1.1b of MARGO available for free download. This stable version includes the code to implement the agent reasoning in the magazine tests of the ARGUGRID platform. These magazine tests demonstrate that:

MARGO 1.1a Major released

Pisa, September 22, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 1.1a of MARGO available for free download. This major version includes a stable version of JMARGO to draw graphical representations of arguments. Some features of MARGO are demonstrated in a specific usecase.

MARGO 1.0a Major released

Pisa, September 22, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 1.o of MARGO available for free download. This major version includes a stable version of JMARGO to draw graphical representations of arguments. Some features of MARGO are demonstrated in a specific usecase.

MARGO 0.9b Minor released

Pisa, September 8, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.9b of MARGO available for free download. This minor version includes a first version of JMARGO to draw graphical representations of arguments. In this release, JMARGO is lmited to the eProcOpt scenario.

MARGO 0.9a Major released

Pisa, August 25, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.9a of MARGO available for free download. This new branch tends to include a Graphical User Interface.

MARGO 0.8b Minor released

Pisa, April 18, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.8b of MARGO available for free download. This minor version correct minor bugs and the MARGO syntax has been simplified.

MARGO 0.8a Major released

Pisa, March 30, 2008 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.8a of MARGO available for free download. This major version has no more restriction concerning the decision representation.

MARGO 0.7c Released, improving support for the qualitative preferences

Pisa, November 16, 2007 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.7c of MARGO available for free download. This minor version correct a bug around quantitative preferences.

MARGO 0.7b Released, running over SICStus Prolog

Pisa, September 17, 2007 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.7b of MARGO available for free download. This minor version runs over SICStus Prolog.

Major feature enhancements

Pisa, March 10, 2007 - We announce today the upcoming availability of version 0.7a of MARGO available for free download.

In order to evaluate the previous statements, all relevant pieces of information should be taken into account, such as the likelihood of beliefs, the preferences between goals, or the expected utilities of the alternatives. In the previous version, these priorities were qualitatives, i.e order relations classifying the elements from the "best" to the "worst". However, such qualitative information is not enough in many practical applications. Alternatively, this version allows quantitative priorities which are expressed by a valuation function over rules, called confidence.

First MARGO Release

Pisa, February 9, 2007 - We announce today the upcoming availability of the version 0.5f of MARGO available for free download.