Modal and temporal argumentation networks

  • Authors:
  • Howard Barringer;Dov M. Gabbay

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;Department of Computer Science, King's College London, The Strand, UK and Bar Ilan University, Israel and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Venue:
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  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The traditional Dung networks depict arguments as atomic and studies the relationships of attack between them. This can be generalised in two ways. One is to consider, for example, various forms of attack, support and feedback. Another is to add content to nodes and put there not just atomic arguments but more structure, for example, proofs in some logic or simply just formulas from a richer language. This paper offers to use temporal and modal language formulas to represent arguments in the nodes of a network. The suitable semantics for such networks is Kripke semantics. We also introduce a new key concept of usability of an argument.