AAAI Fall Symposium: The Uses of Computational Argumentation

[Henry Prakken]

(apologies for multiple postings)

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE USES OF COMPUATIONAL ARGUMENTATION

5th-7th November 2009, Washington D.C., as part of the AAAI 2009 Fall 
Symposium Series
http://people.cs.uu.nl/henry/uses/

The AAAI Fall Symposium Series provides the AI community with a unique 
venue in which researchers from different areas of AI can present 
speculative work and work in progress, hold focused discussions over 
several days, build new communities for emerging disciplines, and build 
ties between existing disciplines.

OVERVIEW

Argumentation is a form of reasoning in which explicit attention is paid 
to the reasons for the conclusions that are drawn and how conflicts 
between reasons are resolved. Explicit consideration of the support for 
conclusions provides a mechanism, for example, to handle inconsistent 
and uncertain information. Argumentation has been studied both at the 
logical level, as a way of modelling defeasible inference, and at the 
dialogical level, as a form of agent interaction. Argumentation has long 
been studied in disciplines such as philosophy, and one can find 
approaches in computer science from the 1970s onwards that clearly owe 
something to the notion of an argument. Work on computational 
argumentation, where arguments are explicitly constructed and compared 
as a means of solving problems on a computer, first started appearing in 
the second half of the 1980s, and argumentation is now well established 
as an important sub-field within artificial intelligence.

There is now a good understanding of the basic requirements of 
argumentation systems, and there are several theoretical models that 
have been widely studied by researchers. There are one or two robust 
implementations, and the first software systems built around 
argumentation are beginning to appear. This, therefore, is an 
appropriate time to consider what these models and implementations might 
be used for. This symposium will provide a forum for wide-ranging 
discussion of the possible applications of techniques from computational 
argumentation. It will give special focus to strongly innovative ideas, 
ideas that can engage current researchers in the area and can inspire 
others to become researchers in the area.

Papers are invited in all areas relating to argumentation and 
computation, including, but not limited to:

* Applications of argumentation systems
* Implementations of argumentation systems
* Argumentation and inconsistent information
* Argumentation and uncertain information
* Argumentation and decision making
* Argumentation as an interaction mechanism
* Multiagent argumentation
* Formal models of argumentation

Of particular interest are papers describing new applications of 
argumentation, and new areas in which argumentation could be applied. 
Descriptions of work in progress are welcomed.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers should be submitted to Simon Parsons 
(parsons at sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu).
Submissions should be no more than 6 pages in AAAI format (see 
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Please submit PDF 
files only.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK.
* Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
* Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The 
Netherlands.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: Friday 3rd July 2009
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: Friday 31st July 2009
Camera Ready Copy Due: Friday 11th  September 2009
Symposium: Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th November 2009

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Leila Amgoud, IRIT, Toulouse
* Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh
* Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
* Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia
* Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool
* Martin Caminada, University of Luxembourg
* Carlos Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur
* Sylvie Doutre, University of Toulouse 1
* Paul Dunne, University of Liverpool
* Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool
* Nancy Green, University of North Carolina
* John Horty, University of Maryland
* Tony Hunter, University College, London
* Antononis Kakas, University of Cyprus
* Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool
* Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen
* Sanjay Mogdil, Kings College, London
* Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
* Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen.
* Iyad Rahwan, British University of Dubai
* Chris Reed, University of Dundee
* Carles Sierra, IIIA-ISIC Barcelona
* Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca
* Francesca Toni, Imperial College London
* Paolo Torroni, Univerity of Bologna
* Bart Verheij, University of Groningen
* Gerard Vreeswijk, Utrecht University
* Doug Walton, University of Windsor