Implementing Abstract Argumentation - A Survey
Johannes Peter Wallner, Stefan Woltran · 2013
Within the last decade, abstract argumentation has emerged as a central field in Artificial Intelligence. Besides serving as a core formalism for many advanced argumentation systems, this is mainly due to the fact that abstract argumentation has been shown to capture several nonmonotonic logics and other AI related principles. Although the idea of abstract argumentation is appealingly simple, several reasoning problems in this formalism suffer from a high computational complexity. This calls for advanced techniques when it comes to implementation issues, a challenge which has been recently faced from different angles. In this survey, we give an overview on different methods for solving abstract argumentation problems and compare their particular features. Moreover, we give links to available state-of-the-art systems for abstract argumentation, which put these methods to practice.