English
Related papers

Related papers: Rediscovering Argumentation Principles Utilizing C…

200 papers

Abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) are one of the most studied formalisms in AI. In this work, we introduce a certain subclass of AFs which we call compact. Given an extension-based semantics, the corresponding compact AFs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Ringo Baumann , Wolfgang Dvorák , Thomas Linsbichler , Hannes Strass , Stefan Woltran

This work proposes novel splitting techniques for argumentation formalisms that incorporate supports between defeasible elements. We base our studies on bipolar set-based argumentation frameworks (BSAFs) which generalize argumentation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Matti Berthold , Lydia Blümel , Giovanni Buraglio , Anna Rapberger

Argumentation frameworks (AFs) are a foundational tool in artificial intelligence for modeling structured reasoning and conflict. SCC-recursiveness is a well-known design principle in which the evaluation of arguments is decomposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Uri Andrews , Luca San Mauro

Generalizing the attack structure in argumentation frameworks (AFs) has been studied in different ways. Most prominently, the binary attack relation of Dung frameworks has been extended to the notion of collective attacks. The resulting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Wolfgang Dvořák , Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi , Stefan Woltran

Dung's Abstract Argumentation Framework (AF) has emerged as a key formalism for argumentation in Artificial Intelligence. It has been extended in several directions, including the possibility to express supports, leading to the development…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Francesco Parisi , Irina Trubitsyna

Argumentation is a central subarea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for modeling and reasoning about arguments. The semantics of abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) is given by sets of arguments (extensions) and conditions on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Johannes Fichte , Nicolas Fröhlich , Markus Hecher , Victor Lagerkvist , Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier , Jonathan Persson

Abstract argumentation framework (\AFname) is a unifying framework able to encompass a variety of nonmonotonic reasoning approaches, logic programming and computational argumentation. Yet, efficient approaches for most of the decision and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Federico Cerutti , Ilias Tachmazidis , Mauro Vallati , Sotirios Batsakis , Massimiliano Giacomin , Grigoris Antoniou

Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) is a well-established formalism for modelling and reasoning over debates, with a wide range of applications. However, the high computational complexity of core reasoning tasks in ABA poses a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Giovanni Buraglio , Wolfgang Dvorak , Stefan Woltran

Abstract argumentation is a reasoning model for evaluating arguments based on various semantics. SCC-recursiveness is a sophisticated property of semantics that provides a general schema for characterizing semantics through the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zongshun Wang , Yuping Shen

The theory of abstract argumentation frameworks (afs) has, in the main, focused on finite structures, though there are many significant contexts where argumentation can be regarded as a process involving infinite objects. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Pietro Baroni , Federico Cerutti , Paul E. Dunne , Massimiliano Giacomin

An abstract argumentation framework can be used to model the argumentative stance of an agent at a high level of abstraction, by indicating for every pair of arguments that is being considered in a debate whether the first attacks the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Weiwei Chen , Ulle Endriss

Argumentative explainable AI has been advocated by several in recent years, with an increasing interest on explaining the reasoning outcomes of Argumentation Frameworks (AFs). While there is a considerable body of research on qualitatively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiang Yin , Nico Potyka , Francesca Toni

Argumentation is an important topic of AI for modelling and reasoning about arguments. In abstract argumentation, we consider directed graphs, so-called argumentation frameworks (AF), that express conflicts between arguments. The semantics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Yasir Mahmood , Zhengjun Wang

Argumentation frameworks ($AF$s) have been a useful tool for approximate reasoning. The encoding method is an important approach to formally model $AF$s under related semantics. The aim of this paper is to develop the encoding method from…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Shuai Tang , Jiachao Wu , Ning Zhou

This paper develops a new approach to computational argumentation that is informed by philosophical and linguistic views. Namely, it takes into account two ideas that have received little attention in the literature on computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Michael A. Müller , Srdjan Vesic , Bruno Yun

Argumentation is a very active research field of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the representation and evaluation of arguments used in dialogues between humans and/or artificial agents. Acceptability semantics of formal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zlatina Mileva , Antonis Bikakis , Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

One of the most prominent tools for abstract argumentation is the Dung's framework, AF for short. It is accompanied by a variety of semantics including grounded, complete, preferred and stable. Although powerful, AFs have their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Sylwia Polberg

Abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) provide a formal setting to analyze many forms of reasoning with conflicting information. While the expressiveness of general infinite AFs make them a tempting tool for modeling many kinds of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Uri Andrews , Luca San Mauro

Factorization-based models have gained popularity since the Netflix challenge {(2007)}. Since that, various factorization-based models have been developed and these models have been proven to be efficient in predicting users' ratings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

After a few decades of development, computational argumentation has become one of the active realms in AI. This paper considers extension-based concrete and abstract semantics of argumentation. For concrete ones, based on Grossi and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Lixing Tan , Zhaohui Zhu , Jinjin Zhang
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›