Understanding the Abstract Dialectical Framework (Preliminary Report)
  Among the most general structures extending the framework by Dung are the
abstract dialectical frameworks (ADFs). They come equipped with various types
of semantics, with the most prominent - the labeling-based one - analyzed in
the context of computational complexity, signatures, instantiations and
software support. This makes the abstract dialectical frameworks valuable tools
for argumentation. However, there are fewer results available concerning the
relation between the ADFs and other argumentation frameworks. In this paper we
would like to address this issue by introducing a number of translations from
various formalisms into ADFs. The results of our study show the similarities
and differences between them, thus promoting the use and understanding of ADFs.
Moreover, our analysis also proves their capability to model many of the
existing frameworks, including those that go beyond the attack relation.
Finally, translations allow other structures to benefit from the research on
ADFs in general and from the existing software in particular.
