Package org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates

Class RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch

java.lang.Object

org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RankingPostulate

org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch

All Implemented Interfaces:

Postulate<Argument>

public class RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch
extends RankingPostulate

The "increase of defense branch" postulate for ranking semantics as formalized in [Bonzon, Delobelle, Konieczny, Maudet. A Comparative Study of Ranking-Based Semantics for Abstract Argumentation. 2016]: Increasing the length of a defense branch of an argument degrades its ranking.

Author:

Anna Gessler

See Also:

• RaStrictAdditionOfDefenseBranch

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RankingPostulate

ABSTRACTION, ADDITIONOFATTACKBRANCH, ADDITIONOFDEFENSEBRANCH, ATTACKVSFULLDEFENSE, CARDINALITYPRECEDENCE, COUNTERTRANSITIVITY, DEFENSEPRECEDENCE, DISTDEFENSEPRECEDENCE, INCREASEOFATTACKBRANCH, INCREASEOFDEFENSEBRANCH, INDEPENDENCE, NONATTACKEDEQUIVALENCE, QUALITYPRECEDENCE, SELFCONTRADICTION, STRICTADDITIONOFDEFENSEBRANCH, STRICTCOUNTERTRANSITIVITY, TOTAL, VOIDPRECEDENCE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getName()	The textual name of the postulate
boolean	isApplicable(Collection<Argument> kb)	Checks whether the given kb represents a non-trivial instance for this postulate, i.e., whether assumptions of this postulates are satisfied (evaluating an approach on a non-applicable instance always succeeds).
boolean	isSatisfied(Collection<Argument> kb, AbstractRankingReasoner<GeneralComparator<Argument,DungTheory>> ev)

Methods inherited from class org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RankingPostulate

isSatisfied

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch

public RaIncreaseOfDefenseBranch()

Method Details

getName

public String getName()

Description copied from interface: Postulate

The textual name of the postulate

Returns:

a string

isApplicable

public boolean isApplicable(Collection<Argument> kb)

Description copied from interface: Postulate

Checks whether the given kb represents a non-trivial instance for this postulate, i.e., whether assumptions of this postulates are satisfied (evaluating an approach on a non-applicable instance always succeeds).

Specified by:

isApplicable in interface Postulate<Argument>

Specified by:

isApplicable in class RankingPostulate

Parameters:

kb - some knowledge base

Returns:

true if the knowledge base is a non trivial instance of this postulate.

isSatisfied

public boolean isSatisfied(Collection<Argument> kb,
 AbstractRankingReasoner<GeneralComparator<Argument,DungTheory>> ev)

Specified by:

isSatisfied in class RankingPostulate