This paper addresses the semantics of weighted argumentation graphs that are bipolar, i.e. contain both attacks and supports for arguments. It builds on previous work by Amgoud, Ben-Naim et. al. We study the various characteristics of acceptability semantics that have been introduced in these works, and introduce the notion of a modular acceptability semantics. A semantics is modular if it cleanly separates aggregation of attacking and supporting arguments (for a given argument a) from the computation of their influence on a's initial weight.
We show that the various semantics for bipolar argumentation graphs from the literature may be analysed as a composition of an aggregation function with an influence function. Based on this modular framework, we prove general convergence and divergence theorems. We demonstrate that all well-behaved modular acceptability semantics converge for all acyclic graphs and that no sum-based semantics can converge for all graphs. In particular, we show divergence of Euler-based semantics (Amgoud et al.) for certain cyclic graphs. Further, we provide the first semantics for bipolar weighted graphs that converges for all graphs.
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%1 DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1807-06685
%A Mossakowski, Till
%A Neuhaus, Fabian
%D 2018
%K argumentation myown
%T Modular Semantics and Characteristics for Bipolar Weighted Argumentation Graphs
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06685
%X This paper addresses the semantics of weighted argumentation graphs that are bipolar, i.e. contain both attacks and supports for arguments. It builds on previous work by Amgoud, Ben-Naim et. al. We study the various characteristics of acceptability semantics that have been introduced in these works, and introduce the notion of a modular acceptability semantics. A semantics is modular if it cleanly separates aggregation of attacking and supporting arguments (for a given argument a) from the computation of their influence on a's initial weight.
We show that the various semantics for bipolar argumentation graphs from the literature may be analysed as a composition of an aggregation function with an influence function. Based on this modular framework, we prove general convergence and divergence theorems. We demonstrate that all well-behaved modular acceptability semantics converge for all acyclic graphs and that no sum-based semantics can converge for all graphs. In particular, we show divergence of Euler-based semantics (Amgoud et al.) for certain cyclic graphs. Further, we provide the first semantics for bipolar weighted graphs that converges for all graphs.
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abstract = { This paper addresses the semantics of weighted argumentation graphs that are bipolar, i.e. contain both attacks and supports for arguments. It builds on previous work by Amgoud, Ben-Naim et. al. We study the various characteristics of acceptability semantics that have been introduced in these works, and introduce the notion of a modular acceptability semantics. A semantics is modular if it cleanly separates aggregation of attacking and supporting arguments (for a given argument a) from the computation of their influence on a's initial weight.
We show that the various semantics for bipolar argumentation graphs from the literature may be analysed as a composition of an aggregation function with an influence function. Based on this modular framework, we prove general convergence and divergence theorems. We demonstrate that all well-behaved modular acceptability semantics converge for all acyclic graphs and that no sum-based semantics can converge for all graphs. In particular, we show divergence of Euler-based semantics (Amgoud et al.) for certain cyclic graphs. Further, we provide the first semantics for bipolar weighted graphs that converges for all graphs.},
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date-modified = {2018-08-28 10:50:11 +0200},
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title = {Modular Semantics and Characteristics for Bipolar Weighted Argumentation Graphs},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06685},
year = 2018
}