An Overview of Argumentation Semantics

The main purpose of argumentation theory is to study the fundamental mechanisms that humans use in argumentation, and to explore ways to implement these mechanisms on computers. During the last years, argumentation has been gaining increasing importance in Computer Science, especially in areas as Ar...

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Authors: Juan Carlos Nieves, Mauricio Osorio, Ulises Cortés
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2008
Country:México
Institution:Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Repository:Redalyc-UDLAP
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:61513253005
Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61513253005
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Computación
Non
Logic Programming
Monotonic Reasoning
Argumentation Theory
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Summary:The main purpose of argumentation theory is to study the fundamental mechanisms that humans use in argumentation, and to explore ways to implement these mechanisms on computers. During the last years, argumentation has been gaining increasing importance in Computer Science, especially in areas as Artificial Intelligence, e-commerce, Multi-agent Systems and Decision-Making. In this paper, we present a brief overview of abstract argumentation semantics. In order to promote and disseminate this young area, we describe the fundamental role of argumentation in a medical application. Moreover, we present some results in order to close the huge gap between argumentation theory and argumentation systems. We will see that these results also suggest a general method for exploring some challenges in argumentation theory.