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Change in Argumentation Systems: Exploring the Interest of Removing an Argument

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Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2011)

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This article studies a specific kind of change in an argumentation system: the removal of an argument and its interactions. We illustrate this operation in a legal context and we establish the conditions to obtain some desirable properties when removing an argument.

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Bisquert, P., Cayrol, C., de Saint-Cyr, F.D., Lagasquie-Schiex, MC. (2011). Change in Argumentation Systems: Exploring the Interest of Removing an Argument. In: Benferhat, S., Grant, J. (eds) Scalable Uncertainty Management. SUM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6929. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23963-2_22

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