{"title":"Defining Defense and Defeat in Abstract Argumentation From Scratch - A Generalizing Approach","authors":"Lydia Blümel, Markus Ulbricht","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/7","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a general framework to investigate semantics of Dung-style argumentation frameworks (AFs) by means of a generic defeat notion formalized by refute operators. After establishing the technical foundations, we propose natural generic versions of Dung's classical semantics. We demonstrate how classical as well as recent proposals can be captured by our approach when utilizing suitable notions of refutal. We perform an investigation of basic properties which semantics inherit from the underlying refute operator. In particular, we show under which conditions a counterpart to Dung's fundamental lemma can be inferred and how it ensures the existence of the generalized version of complete extensions. We contribute to a principle-based study of AF semantics by discussing properties tailored to compare different refute operators. Finally, we report computational complexity results for basic reasoning tasks which hold in our general framework.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"18 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116080745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The More the Worst-Case-Merrier: A Generalized Condorcet Jury Theorem for Belief Fusion","authors":"J. Karge, S. Rudolph","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/21","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-agent belief fusion, there is increasing interest in results and methods from social choice theory.\u0000As a theoretical cornerstone, the Condorcet Jury Theorem (CJT) states that given a number of equally competent, independent agents where each is more likely to guess the true out of two alternatives, the chances of determining this objective truth by majority voting increase with the number of participating agents, approaching certainty. Past generalizations of the CJT have shown that some of its underlying assumptions can be weakened. Motivated by requirements from practical belief fusion scenarios, we provide a significant further generalization that subsumes several of the previous ones. Our considered setting simultaneously allows for heterogeneous competence levels across the agents (even tolerating entirely incompetent or even malicious voters), and voting for any number of alternatives from a finite set. We derive practical lower bounds for the numbers of agents needed to give probabilistic guarantees for determining the true state through approval voting. We also demonstrate that the non-asymptotic part of the CJT fails in our setting for arbitrarily high numbers of voters.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127626468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symbolic Knowledge Extraction from Opaque Machine Learning Predictors: GridREx & PEDRO","authors":"Federico Sabbatini, Roberta Calegari","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/57","url":null,"abstract":"Procedures aimed at explaining outcomes and behaviour of opaque predictors are becoming more and more essential as machine learning (ML) black-box (BB) models pervade a wide variety of fields and, in particular, critical ones - e.g., medical or financial -, where it is not possible to make decisions on the basis of a blind automatic prediction. A growing number of methods designed to overcome this BB limitation is present in the literature, however some ML tasks are nearly or completely neglected-e.g., regression and clustering. Furthermore, existing techniques may be not applicable in complex real-world scenarios or they can affect the output predictions with undesired artefacts.\u0000\u0000In this paper we present the design and the implementation of GridREx, a pedagogical algorithm to extract knowledge from black-box regressors, along with PEDRO, an optimisation procedure to automate the GridREx hyper-parameter tuning phase with better results than manual tuning. We also report the results of our experiments involving the application of GridREx and PEDRO in real case scenarios, including GridREx performance assessment by using as benchmarks other similar state-of-the-art techniques. GridREx proved to be able to give more concise explanations with higher fidelity and predictive capabilities.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123048099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projection of Belief in the Presence of Nondeterministic Actions and Fallible Sensing","authors":"Jens Claßen, J. Delgrande","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/40","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent paper, we presented a Situation Calculus-based framework for modelling an agent that has incomplete or inaccurate knowledge about its environments, whose actions are non-deterministic, and whose sensor might give incorrect results. Generalizing earlier proposals, the presented approach represented the agent's epistemic state by a set of situations ranked by their respective plausibility, which would then be updated by modifying the plausibility ranks accordingly. In this short paper, we extend our earlier work by considering the problem of projection in this framework, i.e. the question whether a certain (epistemic) formula will hold after a given sequence of actions. We present results on both regression, where the query is transformed into an equivalent one about the initial situation, as well as progression, where the knowledge base is updated to reflect the situation after executing the action sequence in question.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123020109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huifan Yang, Da-Wei Li, Zekun Li, Donglin Yang, Bin Wu
{"title":"Open Relation Extraction with Non-existent and Multi-span Relationships","authors":"Huifan Yang, Da-Wei Li, Zekun Li, Donglin Yang, Bin Wu","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/37","url":null,"abstract":"Open relation extraction (ORE) aims to assign semantic relationships among arguments, essential to the automatic construction of knowledge graphs (KG). The previous ORE methods and some benchmark datasets consider a relation between two arguments as definitely existing and in a simple single-span form, neglecting possible non-existent relationships and flexible, expressive multi-span relations. However, detecting non-existent relations is necessary for a pipelined information extraction system (first performing named entity recognition then relation extraction), and multi-span relationships contribute to the diversity of connections in KGs. To fulfill the practical demands of ORE, we design a novel Query-based Multi-head Open Relation Extractor (QuORE) to extract single/multi-span relations and detect non-existent relationships effectively. Moreover, we re-construct some public datasets covering English and Chinese to derive augmented and multi-span relation tuples. Extensive experiment results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art ORE model LOREM in the extraction of existing single/multi-span relations and the overall performances on four datasets with non-existent relationships.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114545142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison R. Panisson, P. McBurney, Rafael Heitor Bordini
{"title":"Towards an Enthymeme-Based Communication Framework in Multi-Agent Systems","authors":"Alison R. Panisson, P. McBurney, Rafael Heitor Bordini","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/27","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is one of the most important aspects of multi-agent systems. Among the different communication techniques applied to multi-agent systems, argumentation-based approaches have received special interest from the community, because allowing agents to exchange arguments provides a rich form of communication. In contrast to the benefits that argumentation-based techniques provide to multi-agent communication, extra weight on the communication infrastructure results from the additional information exchanged by agents, which could restrict the practical use of such techniques. In this work, we propose an argumentation framework whereby agents are able to exchange shorter messages when engaging in dialogues by omitting information that is common knowledge (e.g., information about a shared multi-agent organisation). In particular, we focus on using enthymemes, shared argumentation schemes (i.e., reasoning patterns from which arguments are instantiated), and common organisational knowledge to build an enthymeme-based communication framework. We show that our approach addresses some of Grice's maxims, in particular that agents can be brief in communication, without any loss in the content of the intended arguments.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132212630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor Hugo Nascimento Rocha, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
{"title":"A Credal Least Undefined Stable Semantics for Probabilistic Logic Programs and Probabilistic Argumentation","authors":"Victor Hugo Nascimento Rocha, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/31","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach to probabilistic logic programming and probabilistic argumentation that combines elements of the L-stable semantics and the credal semantics. We derive the complexity of inferences, propose an extended version of argumentation graphs with a semantics that maps to the L- stable semantics, and introduce a definition for the probability of an argument.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"639 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133467441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sticky Policies in OWL2: Extending PL with Fixpoints and Transitive Closure","authors":"P. Bonatti, L. Sauro","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/8","url":null,"abstract":"PL is a low-complexity profile of OWL2, expressly designed to encode data usage policies and personal data protection regulations - such as the GDPR - in a machine understandable way. With PL, the compliance of privacy policies with the GDPR and with the data subjects' consent to processing can be checked automatically and in real time. In this paper, we extend PL to support \"sticky policies\". They are a sort of license that applies to data transfers, and specifies how the recipient can use the data. Sticky policies may be \"recursive\", i.e. they may apply not only to the first data transfer, but also to all subsequent transfer operations that the (direct or indirect) recipients may execute in the future. Such recursive sticky policies may be encoded with fixpoints or transitive role closure. In this paper we prove that such extensions make compliance checking intractable. Since the scalability of compliance checking is a major requirement in this area, these results justify a specialized, low complexity approach to encoding sticky policies.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133609176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Periklis Mantenoglou, Manolis Pitsikalis, A. Artikis
{"title":"Stream Reasoning with Cycles","authors":"Periklis Mantenoglou, Manolis Pitsikalis, A. Artikis","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/56","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal specifications, such as those found in multi-agent systems, often include cyclic dependencies. Moreover, there is an increasing need to evaluate such specifications in an online manner, upon streaming data. Consider, for example, the online computation of the normative positions of the agents engaging in an e-commerce protocol. We present a formal computational framework that deals with cyclic dependencies in an efficient way. Moreover, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework on large synthetic and real data streams, from the fields of multi-agent systems and composite event recognition.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131695658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computing Stable Conclusions under the Weakest-Link Principle in the ASPIC+ Argumentation Formalism","authors":"Tuomo Lehtonen, J. Wallner, M. Järvisalo","doi":"10.24963/kr.2022/22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2022/22","url":null,"abstract":"Rephrasing argumentation semantics in terms of subsets of defeasible elements allows for gaining new insights for reasoning about acceptance in established fragments of the central structured argumentation formalism of ASPIC+. We provide a non-trivial generalization of these recent results, capturing preferences in ASPIC+. In particular, considering preferences under the weakest-link principle, we show that the stable semantics can be phrased in terms of subsets of defeasible elements. We employ the rephrasing for establishing both complexity results and practical algorithms for reasoning about acceptance in this variant of ASPIC+. Justified by completeness for the second level of the polynomial hierarchy, we develop an iterative answer set solving based approach to reasoning about acceptance under the so-called elitist lifting in ASPIC+ frameworks. Our implementation of the approach scales well in practice.","PeriodicalId":351970,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133308111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}