[CFP] NMR'08 Special session on Argument, Dialogue and Decision

[Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

NMR'08 Special session on Argument, Dialogue and Decision
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Since the work of John Pollock, Ronald Loui and others in
the eighties, argumentation has proven to be successful
in nonmonotonic logic.  In the early nineties Dung and
others showed that argumentation is also very suitable as
a general framework for relating different nonmonotonic
logics. Finally, in recent years argument-based logics
have been used to facilitate reasoning and communication
in multi-agent systems.

Argumentation can be studied on its own, but it also has
interesting relations with other topics, such as dialogue
and decision. For instance, argumentation is an essential
component of such phenomena as fact finding
investigations, computer supported collaborative work,
negotiation, legal procedure, and online dispute
mediation. However, only recently researchers have begun
to explore the use of argumentation in these contexts.

Topics
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This workshop is devoted to the logical study of
argumentation and its connections with decision and
dialogue.  In particular, we invite submissions of
original research on the following topics.

The study of argument-based logics including
* semantics
* proof theory
* complexity and resource limitations
* applications to epistemic and practical reasoning
* applications to informal theories of argumentation
* comparison with other types of nonmonotonic logic

The development of argument-based logical systems in
formal models of multi-agent interaction, such as
* fact finding investigations
* negotiation
* distributed sense-making
* dispute resolution and mediation
* decision making

Context
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AD&D is a special session of the bi-annual nonmonotonic
reasoning workshop.  NMR'08 will be held in Sydney,
prior to KR and collocated with ICAPS and CP.  Its aim
is to bring together active researchers interested in
the area of nonmonotonic reasoning to discuss current
research, results, and problems of both a theoretical
and practical nature.

Program committee
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* Leila Amgoud, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
* Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
* Gerhard Brewka, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
* Paul Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK
* Pavlos Moraitis, Universite Paris Descartes, France
* Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College CUNY, USA
* Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of
  Groningen, The Netherlands
* Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai, UAE;
  University of Edinburgh, UK
* Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
* Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK

Session co-chairs
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* Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus,
  yannis_at cs dot ucy dot ac dot cy
* Gerard Vreeswijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
  gv_at cs dot uu dot nl

Submission details
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Submissions are limited to 9 pages using KR paper format.
Your submission should be sended to each of the
co-chairs in PDF by e-mail, subject header:

   [NMR'08] session AD&D paper submission

Important dates
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* Submission of papers: June 15, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2008
* Camera ready copy: August 15, 2008


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