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An introduction to argumentation semantics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2011

Pietro Baroni ,
Martin Caminada  and
Massimiliano Giacomin
Pietro Baroni*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy; e-mail: baroni@ing.unibs.it, giacomin@ing.unibs.it
Martin Caminada*
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, Université du Luxembourg, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg; e-mail: martin.caminada@uni.lu
Massimiliano Giacomin*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy; e-mail: baroni@ing.unibs.it, giacomin@ing.unibs.it
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Abstract

This paper presents an overview on the state of the art of semantics for abstractargumentation, covering both some of the most influential literature proposalsand some general issues concerning semantics definition and evaluation. As tothe former point, the paper reviews Dung's original notions ofcomplete, grounded, preferred, and stable semantics, as well as subsequentlyproposed notions like semi-stable, ideal, stage, and CF2 semantics, consideringboth the extension-based and the labelling-based approaches with respect totheir definitions. As to the latter point, the paper presents an extensive setof general properties for semantics evaluation and analyzes the notions ofargument justification and skepticism. The final part of the paper is focused onthe discussion of some relationships between semantics properties anddomain-specific requirements.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 365 - 410
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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