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Parameterized Complexity of Logic-Based Argumentation in Schaefer’s Framework
Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany.
Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany.
Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH, Department of Computer Science and Informatics.
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, p. 6426-6434Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Logic-based argumentation is a well-established formalism modeling nonmonotonic reasoning. It has been playing a major role in AI for decades, now. Informally, a set of formulas is the support for a given claim if it is consistent, subset-minimal, and implies the claim. In such a case, the pair of the support and the claim together is called an argument. In this paper, we study the propositional variants of the following three computational tasks studied in argumentation: ARG (exists a support for a given claim with respect to a given set of formulas), ARG-Check (is a given set a support for a given claim), and ARG-Rel (similarly as ARG plus requiring an additionally given formula to be contained in the support). ARG-Check is complete for the complexity class DP, and the other two problems are known to be complete for the second level of the polynomial hierarchy and, accordingly, are highly intractable. Analyzing the reason for this intractability, we perform a two-dimensional classification: first, we consider all possible propositional fragments of the problem within Schaefer's framework, and then study different parameterizations for each of the fragment. We identify a list of reasonable structural parameters (size of the claim, support, knowledge-base) that are connected to the aforementioned decision problems. Eventually, we thoroughly draw a fine border of parameterized intractability for each of the problems showing where the problems are fixed-parameter tractable and when this exactly stops. Surprisingly, several cases are of very high intractability (paraNP and beyond).

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AAAI Press, 2021. p. 6426-6434
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Proceedings of the annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 2159-5399, E-ISSN 2374-3468 ; 35(7)
Keywords [en]
Argumentation, Computational Complexity of Reasoning, Common-Sense Reasoning, Nonmonotonic Reasoning
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54774Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130009698ISBN: 978-1-57735-866-4 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-54774DiVA, id: diva2:1598534
Conference
Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021, Virtual Event, February 2-9, 2021
Available from: 2021-09-29 Created: 2021-09-29 Last updated: 2022-05-30Bibliographically approved

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