Cerutti, Federico, Vallati, Mauro and Giacomin, Massimiliano (2016) Where Are We Now? State of the Art and Future Trends of Solvers for Hard Argumentation Problems. In: Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of Comma 2016. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 287 . IOS Press, pp. 207-218. ISBN 978-1614996859
Abstract

We evaluate the state of the art of solvers for hard argumentation problems---the enumeration of preferred and stable extensions---to envisage future trends based on evidence collected as part of an extensive empirical evaluation.
In the last international competition on computational models of argumentation a general impression suggesting that reduction-based systems (either SAT-based or ASP-based) are the most efficient.

Our investigation shows that we show that this impression is not true in full generality and suggests the areas where the relatively under-developed non reduction-based systems should focus more to improve their performance. Moreover, it also highlights that the state-of-the-art solvers are very complementary and can be successfully combined in portfolios: our best per-instance portfolio is 51% (resp. 53%) faster than the best single solver for enumerating preferred (resp. stable) extensions.

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