Group-Based Argumentation

摘要

The abstract argumentation framework can only deal with the attack relations between single arguments and not allow the attack relations among the sets of arguments. However, there usually are various attack relations among groups in realistic applications of argumentation. In this paper, we propose a group-based argumentation framework, which allows us to cope with the attack relation among the sets of arguments. We define the annotate arguments to describe the groups of arguments, in which the arguments of a group have the same standpoint. We then provide the semantics and properties of the group-based argumentation, respectively. The abstract argumentation framework without self-attacks can be viewed as a special case of the group-based argumentation framework.