Title
Warranted Derivations of Preferred Answer
Abstract
We are aiming at a semantics of logic programs with preferences defined on rules, which always selects a preferred answer set, if there is a non-empty set of (standard) answer sets of the given program. It is shown in a seminal paper by Brewka and Eiter that the goal mentioned above is incompatible with their second principle and it is not satisfied in their semantics of prioritized logic programs. Similarly, also according to other established semantics, based on a prescriptive approach, there are programs with standard answer sets, but without preferred answer sets. According to the standard prescriptive approach no rule can be fired before a more preferred rule, unless the more preferred rule is blocked. This is a rather imperative approach, in its spirit. In our approach, rules can be blocked by more preferred rules, but the rules which are not blocked are handled in a more declarative style, their execution does not depend on the given preference relation on the rules. An argumentation framework (different from the Dung's framework) is proposed in this paper. Argu- mentation structures are derived from the rules of a given program. An attack relation on argumentation structures is defined, which is derived from attacks of more preferred rules against the less preferred rules. Preferred answer sets correspond to complete argumentation structures, which are not blocked by other complete argumentation structures.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
CoRR
satisfiability
Field
DocType
Volume
Argumentation framework,Preference relation,Argumentation theory,Algorithm,Stable model semantics,Mathematics,Semantics
Journal
abs/1109.0375
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ján Sefránek1164.75
Alexander Simko272.43