Package org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates

Class RaCardinalityPrecedence

java.lang.Object

org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RankingPostulate

org.tweetyproject.arg.rankings.postulates.RaCardinalityPrecedence

All Implemented Interfaces:

Postulate<Argument>

public class RaCardinalityPrecedence
extends RankingPostulate

The "cardinality precedence" postulate for ranking semantics as proposed in [Amgoud, Ben-Naim. Ranking-based semantics for argumentation frameworks. 2013]: The greater the number of direct attackers for an argument, the weaker the level of acceptability of this argument.

Author:

Anna Gessler

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
RaCardinalityPrecedence()	Default Constructor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getName()	The textual name of the postulate
boolean	isApplicable(Collection<Argument> kb)	(non-Javadoc)
boolean	isSatisfied(Collection<Argument> kb, AbstractRankingReasoner<GeneralComparator<Argument,DungTheory>> ev)	Return status

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

RaCardinalityPrecedence

public RaCardinalityPrecedence()

Default Constructor

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 class: RankingPostulate

(non-Javadoc)

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.

See Also:

• Postulate.isApplicable(java.util.Collection)

isSatisfied

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

Description copied from class: RankingPostulate

Return status

Specified by:

isSatisfied in class RankingPostulate

Parameters:

kb - kb

ev - ev

Returns:

status