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T. Linsbichler, J. Puehrer, H. Strass:
"A uniform account of realizability in abstract argumentation";
Talk: ECAI 2016 - 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Den Haag, Niederlande; 2016-08-29 - 2016-09-02; in: "Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence", G. Kaminka, M. Fox, P. Bouquet, E. Hüllermeier, V. Dignum, F. Dignum, F. van Harmelen (ed.); IOS Press, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 285 (2016), ISBN: 978-1-61499-671-2; 252 - 260.

We introduce a general framework for analyzing realizability in abstract dialectical frameworks (ADFs) and various of its subclasses. In particular, the framework applies to Dung argumentation frameworks, SETAFs by Nielsen and Parsons, and bipolar ADFs. We present a uniform characterization method for the admissible, complete, preferred and model/stable semantics. We employ this method to devise an algorithm that decides realizability for the mentioned formalisms and semantics; moreover the algorithm allows for constructing a desired knowledge base whenever one exists. The algorithm is built in a modular way and thus easily extensible to new formalisms and semantics. We have implemented our approach in answer set programming, and used the implementation to obtain several novel results on the relative expressiveness of the abovemen-tioned formalisms.