A General Setting for Gradual Semantics Dealing with Similarity

The paper discusses theoretical foundations that describe principles and processes involved in defining semantics deal with similarity between arguments. Such compute the strength of an argument on basis strengths its attackers, similarities those initial weight ascribed to argument. We define a by three functions: adjustment function updates attackers their similarities, aggregation computes group influence evaluates impact argument's weight. propose intuitive constraints for functions key rationality semantics, show how former lead satisfaction latter. Then, we broad family whose instances satisfy principles. Finally, analyse existing they violate some properties, then novel ones use them generalizing h-Categorizer.