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# Timed Abstract Dialectical Frameworks: A Simple Translation-Based Approach

## Abstract

dialectical frameworks (ADFs) are one of the most powerful generalization of classical Dung-style AFs. In this paper we show how to use ADFs if we want to deal with acceptance conditions changing over time. We therefore introduce so-called timed abstract di-alectical frameworks (tADFs) which are essentially ADFs equipped with time states. Beside a precise formal denition of tADFs and an illustrating example we prove that Kleene's three-valued logic K 3 facilitate the evaluation of acceptance functions if we do not allow multiple occurrences of atoms.
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I1(φc)uiI2(φc) = u= ΓD( )
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... To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first systematic such study, but there are some works which contain some similar results or questions. In (Baumann and Heinrich 2020), it is shown that there is no truth-functional three-valued logic L s.t. for every v ∈ V(At) and every φ ∈ L(At), v L (φ) = i [v] 2 (φ). Lemma 1 is a generalization of this result. ...
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