Welfare properties of argumentation-based semantics
Kate S. Larson, Iyad Rahwan · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 2008
Since its introduction in the mid-nineties, Dung's theory of abstract argumentation frameworks has been influential in artificial intelligence.Dung viewed arguments as abstract entities with a binary defeat relation among them.This enabled extensive analysis of different (semantic) argument acceptance criteria.However, little attention has been given to comparing such criteria in relation to the preferences of self-interested agents who may have conflicting preferences over the final status of arguments.In this paper, we define a number of agent preference relations over argumentation outcomes.We then analyse different argument evaluation rules taking into account the preferences of individual agents.