Ranking Transition-Based Medical Recommendations Using Assumption-Based Argumentation

We present a general framework to rank assumption in assumption-based argumentation frameworks (ABA frameworks), relying on their relationship to other assumptions and the syntactical structure of the ABA framework. We propose a new family of semantics for ABA frameworks that is using reductions to the abstract argumentation setting and leveraging existing ranking-based semantics for abstract argumentation. We show the suitability of these semantics by investigating a case study based on medical recommendations for patients with multiple health conditions and show that the relationship of the recommendations are enough to establish a ranking between the recommendations.