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\( ASPIC ^?\) and the Postulates of Non-interference and Crash-Resistance

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We introduce an interrogation mark ? in \( ASPIC ^+\) languages as a plausibility operator to enhance any defeasible conclusion does not have the same status as an irrefutable one. The resulting framework, dubbed \( ASPIC ^?\), is tailored to make a distinction between strong inconsistencies and weak inconsistencies. The aim is to avoid the former and to tolerate the latter. This means the extensions obtained from the \( ASPIC ^?\) framework are free of strong conflicts, but tolerant to weak conflicts. Then, in the current study, we show \( ASPIC ^?\) satisfy reasonable properties. In particular, we focus on the property that a conflict between two arguments should not interfere with the acceptability of other unrelated arguments. With this purpose in mind, we prove under which conditions the important principles of Non-interference and Crash-Resistance hold in \( ASPIC ^?\).

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Silva, R., Alcântara, J. (2021). \( ASPIC ^?\) and the Postulates of Non-interference and Crash-Resistance. In: Britto, A., Valdivia Delgado, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems. BRACIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91702-9_22

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