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provides excellent cautions for readers and users of IoE. The author sees an
increasing, well-deserved interest about IoE occurring among economists.
Chapter 11, titled “Accessing Validity of Argumentation of Agents of the
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Internet of Everything,” was written by Boris Galitsky of the Oracle Cor-
poration in Redwood Shores, CA. Galitsky is a natural language specialist at
Oracle who has trained in AI. In Galitsky’s view, agents operating in IoE will
make message exchanges between them, will make certain decisions based
on those messages, and will need arguments provided to them to justify the
decisions that they have made. When arguments are exchanged in the IoE,
environment, validation of the arguments or the validity of the patterns in an
argumentation message, including the truthfulness of a message, its authen-
ticity and its consistency; all of these qualities become essential. The author
formulates a problem of the domain-independent assessment of argumenta-
tion validity based on analyses of the rhetoric in text messages. He articulates
a model where he is able to discover the structure of an argument; he makes
these discoveries based on the structure of an argument with discourse trees
extended with edges where the communicative actions entailed are labeled.
He is then able to have the argumentation structures extracted represented in
defeasible logic programs that can be revised or challenged and are otherwise
open to dialectical analyses; with this representation and structure, in the
search for the main claim being communicated among the agent exchanges
of messages, the author is able to test and to establish the validity of the argu-
ments for the main claim. The author evaluates the accuracy after each pro-
cessing step in the argumentation pipeline that he has constructed as well as
its overall performance among agents. He is able to determine illogical and
emotional arguments. One of the needs with texts is to be able to mine them
for the logic behind the arguments being made by humans and, in the near
future, AI agents. The author provides an excellent introduction to the
problem and a master class in advancing the science of understanding (text)
language logically. The author advances the science of validating the logic in
the messages exchanged between agents, including those intense arguments
containing emotion.
Chapter 12, titled “Distributed Autonomous Energy Organizations:
Next-Generation Blockchain Applications for Energy Infrastructure,” was
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written by Michael Mylrea. The author is a Senior Advisor for Cyber

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Corresponding author: boris.galitsky@oracle.com.
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Corresponding author: michael.mylrea@pnnl.gov.