Efficiency and Explainability of Support Relations in Argumentation Frameworks

Abstract

Discussions that happen daily in our lives can be formalized into ab-stract frameworks that help us determine the dialectical status of thearguments given in the discussion. This study aims to contribute to ongo-ing research about different types of extensions to the abstract frameworkintroduced by Dung (1995). Specifically, it asks whether adding supportrelations increases efficiency or explainability when determining its statuswith relation to the old framework.After making a program to automate the evaluation of such frameworks,the results have indicated that there is no such increase. However, otherbenefits may be gained by adding support relations or by researching dif-ferent kinds of extensions to Dung’s framework. This is an interestingtopic for future research.