Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with Marginal Probabilities

Bettina Fazzinga, Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Main Track. Pages 2613-2619.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/362

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Abstract

In the context of probabilistic AAFs, we intro-

duce AAFs with marginal probabilities (mAAFs)

requiring only marginal probabilities of argu-

ments/attacks to be specified and not relying on the

independence assumption. Reasoning over mAAFs

requires taking into account multiple probability

distributions over the possible worlds, so that the

probability of extensions is not determined by a

unique value, but by an interval. We focus on the

problems of computing the max and min probabil-

ities of extensions over mAAFs under Dung’s se-

mantics, characterize their complexity, and provide

closed formulas for polynomial cases.

Keywords

  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Argumentation
  • Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Agreement Technologies: Argumentation
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Computational Complexity of Reasoning
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