@inproceedings{LehtonenWJ:ECSQARU2017,
author = {Tuomo Lehtonen and Johannes P. Wallner and Matti J\"arvisalo},
title = {From Structured to Abstract Argumentation: Assumption-Based Acceptance via {AF} Reasoning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative
             Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2017)},
editor = {Alessandro Antonucci and Laurence Cholvy and Odile Papini},
pages = {57--68},
volume = {10369},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2017},
}

Abstract:

We study the applicability of abstract argumentation (AF) reasoners in
efficiently answering acceptability queries over assumption-based
argumentation (ABA) frameworks, one of the prevalent forms of
structured argumentation. We provide a refined algorithm for translating
ABA frameworks to AFs allowing the use of AF reasoning to answer ABA
acceptability queries, covering credulous and skeptical acceptance
problems over ABAs in a seamless way under several argumentation
semantics. We empirically show that the approach is complementary with
a state-of-the-art ABA reasoning system.