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Strategic Argumentation is NP-Complete

Logic in Computer Science 2013-12-17 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computational Complexity

Abstract

In this paper we study the complexity of strategic argumentation for dialogue games. A dialogue game is a 2-player game where the parties play arguments. We show how to model dialogue games in a skeptical, non-monotonic formalism, and we show that the problem of deciding what move (set of rules) to play at each turn is an NP-complete problem.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4287,
  title  = {Strategic Argumentation is NP-Complete},
  author = {Guido Governatori and Francesco Olivieri and Simone Scannapieco and Antonino Rotolo and Matteo Cristani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4287},
  year   = {2013}
}
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