[Event at CIG] [CFP] AI³ 2026 - 10th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

[Giuseppe Pisano]

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Call for Papers AI³ 2026 - 10th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence


We invite submissions of the latest research results concerning applications and theory of computational argumentation to the 10th Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2026) that is a track of the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), which will be held in Perugia between the 6th and the 9th of October 2026.


Official workshop website: https://krarlab.dmi.unipg.it/ai3-2026/

Abstract

Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration of different specific techniques and the development of trustable applications.


For these reasons, over the last two decades formal argumentation has become a main research topic in AI. A variety of theoretical models at different levels of abstraction have been extensively studied, ranging from purely abstract models to concrete implemented systems, argumentation solvers have been developed to identify the justification status for arguments according to different semantics, and a variety of applications of argumentation have been proposed for several fields, ranging from modeling dialogues in social networks to law and medicine.


Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the goal of the workshop, co-located with the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), is to stimulate discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers not only directly involved in argumentation, but also from research fields indirectly related to argumentation. In this respect, at least two directions can be envisaged:


Cross-fertilization with different fields (including non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, just to mention a few of them) is needed to update and extend foundations in Argumentation Theory, as well as tackling a number of open issues that are currently debated in the area.

Inter-disciplinary collaborations are necessary to foster the adoption of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with a wide range of applications.

In Italy, several research groups from different universities and institutions have been involved in argumentation in recent years. One of the aims of the workshop is also to bring together researchers working in argumentation to foster collaboration and the development of a specific national research community. At the same time, recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, particularly in machine learning, deep neural networks, and Large Language Models (LLMs), have renewed interest in methods capable of providing interpretable, explainable, and trustworthy reasoning. Argumentation is increasingly recognized as a key enabling technology for addressing these challenges, offering formal mechanisms to generate, evaluate, and communicate justifications, as well as to assess the soundness and reliability of complex reasoning processes. The workshop welcomes contributions investigating the interplay between argumentation and modern AI systems, with particular attention to explainability, trustworthiness, accountability, and reasoning reliability.

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:


  *   Explainable AI with Argumentation

  *   Argumentation for trustworthy and reliable AI

  *   Persuasion systems

  *   Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation

  *   Properties and evaluation of formal models of argumentation

  *   Computational properties of argumentation

  *   Traditional and ranking-based semantics

  *   Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks

  *   Implementation of argumentation systems

  *   Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks

  *   Philosophical theories of argumentation

  *   Argument mining

  *   Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems

  *   Dialogue based on argumentation

  *   Strategies in argumentation

  *   Decision-making based on argumentation

  *   Argumentation-based negotiation

  *   Argumentation, trust and reputation

  *   Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation

  *   Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques

  *   Argumentation and game theory

  *   Argumentation and probability

  *   Argumentation and fuzzy-logic

  *   Argumentation and narrative

  *   Argumentation and computational linguistics

  *   Argumentation and human-computer interaction

  *   Reasoning about action and time with argumentation

  *   Tools for supporting argumentation

  *   Practical applications of formal models of argumentation

  *   Systems for learning through argument

  *   Argument-based machine learning

  *   Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation

Keynotes

  *   Prof. Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht

  *   TBD

Submission

The workshop invites three types of submissions:


  *   Full papers (15 pages), including contributions already submitted to other conferences or journals, and

  *   Short papers (5 pages), which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects.

  *   Overviews of research projects (3 pages). Possibly moved to a poster session.


Manuscripts should be formatted using the 1-column CEUR-ART Style. You can access the Overleaf template<https://www.overleaf.com/project/6a15890087ac2fc00701c3ef> or download an offline version<https://krarlab.dmi.unipg.it/ai3-2024/CEURART.zip> with the style files.

Papers must be submitted through easychair. An official link for paper submissions will be included soon.

For any inquiries contact g.pisano at unibo.it<mailto:g.pisano at unibo.it> or alessandro.parenti3 at unibo.it<mailto:alessandro.parenti3 at unibo.it>.



All submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. In addition, selected contributions will be considered for publication in a post-workshop special issue or edited volume.

Deadlines

Paper Submission deadline: July 15th, 2026 CET

Notification of Acceptance: August 7th, 2026 CET

Camera-ready version: August 26th, 2026 CET

Attendance

The conference and workshops will be held in person, with the possibility of arranging remote calls for specific participants upon request.


All attendees (and at least one author per accepted paper) should register to AIxIA 2026.

Organising Committee

Giovanni Sartor, Università di Bologna

Matteo Cristani, Università di Verona

Carlo Taticchi, Università di Perugia

Giuseppe Pisano, University of Bologna

Alessandro Parenti, University of Bologna

Programme Committee

Sylvie Doutre, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT

Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria

Serena Villata, CNRS

Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Pietro Baroni, University of Brescia

Luca Pasetto, University of Luxembourg

Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield

Marco Maratea, University of Genova

Marcello D'Agostino, University of Milan

Jean-Guy Mailly, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT

Luca San Mauro, University of Bari

Johannes Wallner, Graz University of Technology

Guido Governatori, CQUniversity

Gianvincenzo Alfano, University of Calabria

Francesco Parisi, University of Calabria

Filippo Furfaro, University of Calabria

Federico Cerutti, University of Brescia

Davide Grossi, University of Groningen

Daniele Porello, University of Genova

Carlo Proietti, ILC-CNR Genova

Bettina Fazzinga, University of Calabria

Emanuele De Angelis, CNR

Fabrizio Macagno, universit, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Sponsor

The workshop is supported by the FIS Project “GenAI4Law” (FIS-2024-07323)