Weighted Assumption Based Argumentation to reason about ethical principles and actions

TL;DR

This paper introduces a weighted assumption-based argumentation framework to enhance ethical reasoning, assigning weights to arguments and attacks, with an implementation using Answer Set Programming.

Contribution

It extends ABA with weights for arguments and attacks, providing a novel approach to ethical reasoning and demonstrating its practical implementation.

Findings

Effective modeling of ethical principles through weighted arguments

Implementation using Answer Set Programming shows practical viability

Enhanced reasoning capabilities in ethical decision-making

Abstract

We augment Assumption Based Argumentation (ABA for short) with weighted argumentation. In a nutshell, we assign weights to arguments and then derive the weight of attacks between ABA arguments. We illustrate our proposal through running examples in the field of ethical reasoning, and present an implementation based on Answer Set Programming.