Reasoning about Action: An Argumentation - Theoretic Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified argumentation-theoretic framework for reasoning about actions, addressing traditional problems like frame, qualification, and ramification within a non-monotonic logic system.

Contribution

It provides a provably correct, flexible formalization for complex action reasoning problems using an argumentation-based approach.

Findings

Formalizes sophisticated problem domains in the framework

Addresses traditional reasoning problems in action domains

Proves correctness relative to a minimization policy

Abstract

We present a uniform non-monotonic solution to the problems of reasoning about action on the basis of an argumentation-theoretic approach. Our theory is provably correct relative to a sensible minimisation policy introduced on top of a temporal propositional logic. Sophisticated problem domains can be formalised in our framework. As much attention of researchers in the field has been paid to the traditional and basic problems in reasoning about actions such as the frame, the qualification and the ramification problems, approaches to these problems within our formalisation lie at heart of the expositions presented in this paper.