Towards Advanced Systems for Abstract Argumentation

Within the last years, and in particular due to the first edition of the International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA) in 2015, the field of formal argumentation has seen an increasing number of systems for Dung’s abstract argumentation framework. However, the majority of the current approaches rely on reductions to other solving paradigms like SAT-solving and Answer-Set Programming, thus leaving genuine features of abstract argumentation rather unexploited. In this talk, we present a few directions for the development of next-generation argumentation systems that take recent theoretical advances into account and discuss challenges as well as potential pitfalls in this endeavor.