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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

In this paper we discuss contrastive explanations for formal argumentation - the question why a certain argument (the fact) can be accepted, whilst another argument (the foil) cannot be accepted under various extension-based semantics. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-26 AnneMarie Borg , Floris Bex

In dialogical argumentation it is often assumed that the involved parties always correctly identify the intended statements posited by each other, realize all of the associated relations, conform to the three acceptability states (accepted,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sylwia Polberg , Anthony Hunter

Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (ADFs) generalize Dung's argumentation frameworks allowing various relationships among arguments to be expressed in a systematic way. We further generalize ADFs so as to accommodate arbitrary acceptance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Gerhard Brewka , Jörg Pührer , Hannes Strass , Johannes P. Wallner , Stefan Woltran

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

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

In many expert and everyday reasoning contexts it is very useful to reason on the basis of defeasible assumptions. For instance, if the information at hand is incomplete we often use plausible assumptions, or if the information is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-25 AnneMarie Borg

We observe some puzzling linguistic data concerning ordinary knowledge ascriptions that embed an epistemic (im)possibility claim. We conclude that it is untenable to jointly endorse both classical logic and a pair of intuitively attractive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Peter Hawke

The assignment of weights to attacks in a classical Argumentation Framework allows to compute semantics by taking into account the different importance of each argument. We represent a Weighted Argumentation Framework by a non-binary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Stefano Bistarelli , Alessandra Tappini , Carlo Taticchi

This paper presents a formal approach to explaining change of inference in Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks (QBAFs). When drawing conclusions from a QBAF and updating the QBAF to then again draw conclusions (and so on), our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Timotheus Kampik , Kristijonas Čyras , José Ruiz Alarcón

We study invariant local expansion operators for conflict-free and admissible sets in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks (AFs). Such operators are directly applied on AFs, and are invariant with respect to a chosen "semantics" (that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Stefano Bistarelli , Francesco Santini , Carlo Taticchi

Realizability for knowledge representation formalisms studies the following question: given a semantics and a set of interpretations, is there a knowledge base whose semantics coincides exactly with the given interpretation set? We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Thomas Linsbichler , Jörg Pührer , Hannes Strass

Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) is an argumentation framework that has been proposed in the late 20th century. Since then, there was still no solver implemented in a programming language which is easy to setup and no solver have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Kenrick

Answer set programming (ASP) is an efficient problem-solving approach, which has been strongly supported both scientifically and technologically by several solvers, ongoing active research, and implementations in many different fields.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ezgi Iraz Su

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

Modelling qualitative uncertainty in formal argumentation is essential both for practical applications and theoretical understanding. Yet, most of the existing works focus on \textit{abstract} models for arguing with uncertainty. Following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Carlo Proietti , Antonio Yuste-Ginel

Weighted bipolar argumentation frameworks offer a tool for decision support and social media analysis. Arguments are evaluated by an iterative procedure that takes initial weights and attack and support relations into account. Until…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nico Potyka

We elaborate upon the formal foundations of hybrid Answer Set Programming (ASP) and extend its underlying logical framework with aggregate functions over constraint values and variables. This is achieved by introducing the construct of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Torsten Schaub , Philipp Wanko

Gradual argumentation is a field of symbolic AI which is attracting attention for its ability to support transparent and contestable AI systems. It is considered a useful tool in domains such as decision-making, recommendation, debate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Aniol Civit , Antonio Rago , Antonio Andriella , Guillem Alenyà , Francesca Toni

Over the last decade, as we rely more on deep learning technologies to make critical decisions, concerns regarding their safety, reliability and interpretability have emerged. We introduce a novel Neural Argumentative Learning (NAL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Abdul Rahman Jacob , Avinash Kori , Emanuele De Angelis , Ben Glocker , Maurizio Proietti , Francesca Toni