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A survey of different approaches to support in argumentation systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2013

Andrea Cohen ,
Sebastian Gottifredi ,
Alejandro J. García  and
Guillermo R. Simari
Andrea Cohen
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, Bahía Blanca (8000), Argentina; e-mail: ac@cs.uns.edu.ar, sg@cs.uns.edu.ar, ajg@cs.uns.edu.ar, grs@cs.uns.edu.ar
Sebastian Gottifredi
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, Bahía Blanca (8000), Argentina; e-mail: ac@cs.uns.edu.ar, sg@cs.uns.edu.ar, ajg@cs.uns.edu.ar, grs@cs.uns.edu.ar
Alejandro J. García
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, Bahía Blanca (8000), Argentina; e-mail: ac@cs.uns.edu.ar, sg@cs.uns.edu.ar, ajg@cs.uns.edu.ar, grs@cs.uns.edu.ar
Guillermo R. Simari
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Avenida Alem 1253, Bahía Blanca (8000), Argentina; e-mail: ac@cs.uns.edu.ar, sg@cs.uns.edu.ar, ajg@cs.uns.edu.ar, grs@cs.uns.edu.ar
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Abstract

In the last decades, most works in the literature have been devoted to study argumentation formalisms that focus on a defeat relation among arguments. Recently, the study of a support relation between arguments regained attention among researchers; the bulk of the research has been centered on the study of support within the context of abstract argumentation by considering support as an explicit interaction between arguments. However, there exist other approaches that take support into account in a different setting. This article surveys several interpretations of the notion of support as proposed in the literature, such as deductive support, necessary support, evidential support, subargument, and backing, among others. The aim is to provide a comprehensive study where similarities and differences among these interpretations are highlighted, as well as discuss how they are addressed by different argumentation formalisms.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , November 2014 , pp. 513 - 550
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