Prioritized norms in formal argumentation

DOI10.1093/LOGCOM/EXY009zbMATH Open1444.03067DBLPjournals/logcom/LiaoOTV19arXiv1709.08034OpenAlexW2758985668WikidataQ57744467 ScholiaQ57744467MaRDI QIDQ5222686FDOQ5222686

Authors: Beishui Liao, Nir Oren, Leendert van der Torre, Serena Villata 

Publication date: 10 July 2019

Published in: Journal Of Logic And Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To resolve conflicts among norms, various nonmonotonic formalisms can be used to perform prioritized normative reasoning. Meanwhile, formal argumentation provides a way to represent nonmonotonic logics. In this paper, we propose a representation of prioritized normative reasoning by argumentation. Using hierarchical abstract normative systems, we define three kinds of prioritized normative reasoning approaches, called Greedy, Reduction, and Optimization. Then, after formulating an argumentation theory for a hierarchical abstract normative system, we show that for a totally ordered hierarchical abstract normative system, Greedy and Reduction can be represented in argumentation by applying the weakest link and the last link principles respectively, and Optimization can be represented by introducing additional defeats capturing the idea that for each argument that contains a norm not belonging to the maximal obeyable set then this argument should be rejected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08034

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zbMATH Keywords

deontic logicformal argumentationnormsnormative systemsnormative multiagent systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27) Logic in computer science (03B70)

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