Different abstract argumentation frameworks have been used for various applications within
multi-agents systems. Among them, bipolar frameworks make use of both attack and support …

The paper presents a focused survey about the presence and the use of the concept of
“preferences” in Artificial Intelligence. Preferences are a central concept for decision making …

The issue of representing attacks to attacks in argumentation is receiving an increasing
attention as a useful conceptual modelling tool in several contexts. In this paper we present …

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the existent and potential contribution of
argumentation theory to decision aiding, more specifically to multi-criteria decision aiding …

An argumentation framework is seen as a directed graph whose nodes are arguments and
arcs are attacks between the arguments. Acceptable sets of arguments, called extensions …

We present ABA+, a new approach to handling preferences in a well known structured
argumentation formalism, Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA). In ABA+, preference …

Abstract Dung's abstract Argumentation Framework (AF) has emerged as a central
formalism in formal argumentation. Key aspects of the success and popularity of Dung's …

A paramount, yet unresolved issue in personalised medicine is that of automated reasoning
with clinical guidelines in multimorbidity settings. This entails enabling machines to use …

Consider an argument A that is attacked by an argument B, while A is preferred to B. Existing
approaches will either ignore the attack or reverse it. In this paper we introduce a new …

Dung's argumentation framework consists of a set of arguments and an attack relation
among them. Arguments are evaluated and acceptable sets of them, called extensions, are …