New Methods for Analyzing, Comparing, and Solving Argumentation Problems

01.04.2009 - 31.10.2012
Research funding project
The field of argumentation has received increasing interest over the past years and faces nowadays a "plethora of argumentation semantics". However, a systematic comparison between different approaches, in particular with respect to their practical applicability in larger scaled scenarios, is still missing. In this project, we first address theoretical foundations which we consider indispensable for such an investigation: on the one hand, we need a better understanding how to compare (not necessarily complete) argumentation frameworks; on the other hand, we continue the search for tractable fragments of argumentation problems. With these additional theoretical tools at hand, we provide a suite of implementations which will cover different approaches to argumentation in a uniform way, such that a suitable integration of these implementations leads us towards a general argumentation reasoning system. At the end of the project we provide case-studies for some application scenarios.

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Grant funds

  • WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschu und Technologiefonds (National) Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)

Research focus

  • Computational Intelligence: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
ArgumentationArgumentation
Komplexitätsanalysecomplexity analysis
Problemübersetzung problem encodings

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