Sub-Workshop:
Argument, Dialog and Decision
Program Co-Chairs
Tommie Meyer
Meraka Institute, Building 43, CSIR
Meiring Naude Avenue, Brummeria,
Pretoria,
South Africa
Phone: +27 12 841 4017
Fax: +27 12 841 4720
Eugenia Ternovska
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada
Phone: +1 778.782.4771
Fax: +1 778.782.3045
© Copyright NMR-2010
NMR'2010 Special session on Argument, Dialogue and Decision
Session web page: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/NMR_2010/Argument,_Dialog_and_Decision.html
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
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.
- 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 reasoning and interaction, such as
- fact finding investigations
- negotiation
- distributed sense-making
- dispute resolution and mediation
- decision making
Session co-chairs
Iyad Rahwan , British University in Dubai, UAE; University of Edinburgh, UK
Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
SUBMISSIONS DETAILS
Submissions are limited to 7 pages using KR/AAAI paper format (See http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Only PDF format will be accepted.
Submissions should be sent via EasyChair using the following site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2009add
Please contact the co-chairs by e-mail for any queries.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: January 29 (Friday), 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010
Camera ready copy: April 6, 2010
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Leila Amgoud, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Carlos Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Paul E. Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK
Alejandro Garcia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Anthony Hunter, University College London
Michael Maher, National ICT Australia
Sanjay Modgil, King's College, London, UK
Nir Oren, King's College, London, UK
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 R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Simon Wells, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
