Defining Argumentation Attacks in Practice: An Experiment in Food Packaging Consumer Expectations

Abstract

In socioeconomic systems, where actors are motivated by different objectives, interests and priorities, it is very difficult to meet all involved party expectations when proposing new solutions. Argumentative approaches have been proposed and demonstrated to be of added value when addressing such decision making problems. In this paper we focus on the following research question: "How to define an attack relation for argumentative decision making in socioeconomic systems?" To address this question we propose three kinds of attacks that could be defined in the context of a precise application (packaging selection) and see how the non computer science experts evaluate, against a given set of decision tasks, each of these attacks.

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“…An attack happens when an argument challenges another argument. For more details on attacks, see [19].…”

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“…add an argument(new argument, referenced graph): add new argument to the agent's argumentation graph and connect the argument to the other arguments according to the existing attacks in the referenced graph. The interested reader can refer to [32] for different ways to define attacks. evaluate argument(an argument): evaluate the strength of an argument for the agent.…”