Non-flat ABA is an Instance of Bipolar Argumentation

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Auteurs principaux: Ulbricht, Markus, Potyka, Nico, Rapberger, Anna, Toni, Francesca
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author Ulbricht, Markus
Potyka, Nico
Rapberger, Anna
Toni, Francesca
author_facet Ulbricht, Markus
Potyka, Nico
Rapberger, Anna
Toni, Francesca
contents Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is a well-known structured argumentation formalism, whereby arguments and attacks between them are drawn from rules, defeasible assumptions and their contraries. A common restriction imposed on ABA frameworks (ABAFs) is that they are flat, i.e., each of the defeasible assumptions can only be assumed, but not derived. While it is known that flat ABAFs can be translated into abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) as proposed by Dung, no translation exists from general, possibly non-flat ABAFs into any kind of abstract argumentation formalism. In this paper, we close this gap and show that bipolar AFs (BAFs) can instantiate general ABAFs. To this end we develop suitable, novel BAF semantics which borrow from the notion of deductive support. We investigate basic properties of our BAFs, including computational complexity, and prove the desired relation to ABAFs under several semantics. Finally, in order to support computation and explainability, we propose the notion of dispute trees for our BAF semantics.
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spellingShingle Non-flat ABA is an Instance of Bipolar Argumentation
Ulbricht, Markus
Potyka, Nico
Rapberger, Anna
Toni, Francesca
Artificial Intelligence
Assumption-based Argumentation (ABA) is a well-known structured argumentation formalism, whereby arguments and attacks between them are drawn from rules, defeasible assumptions and their contraries. A common restriction imposed on ABA frameworks (ABAFs) is that they are flat, i.e., each of the defeasible assumptions can only be assumed, but not derived. While it is known that flat ABAFs can be translated into abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) as proposed by Dung, no translation exists from general, possibly non-flat ABAFs into any kind of abstract argumentation formalism. In this paper, we close this gap and show that bipolar AFs (BAFs) can instantiate general ABAFs. To this end we develop suitable, novel BAF semantics which borrow from the notion of deductive support. We investigate basic properties of our BAFs, including computational complexity, and prove the desired relation to ABAFs under several semantics. Finally, in order to support computation and explainability, we propose the notion of dispute trees for our BAF semantics.
title Non-flat ABA is an Instance of Bipolar Argumentation
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12453