Abstract
This article concerns the mergingof argumentation systems. We proposeanequational approachto this problem byconsidering an augmented network containing the arguments and attacks of all systems to be merged and then associating a numerical weight to each of the components of the augmented network. The weights are calculated based on how the components are perceived by the agents associated with the systems being merged. The resulting weighted network is then used to define a system of equations, one for each argument, a solution of which corresponds to the overall level of acceptance of the arguments within the community.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1253-1277 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Journal of Logic and Computation |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author, 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All Rights Reserved.
Funding
The authors would like to thank Sanjay Modgil and the reviewers for useful comments and suggestions to this article. D. M. G. was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation Project 1321/10: Integrating logic and networks.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Israel Science Foundation | 1321/10 |
Keywords
- Argumentation
- Equational approach
- Merging