First
International Workshop on
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2004)
Mon 19, July
2004, Columbia University, NY, USA
In Conjunction with AAMAS 2004
ArgMAS
series web site:
http://www.mit.edu/~irahwan/argmas/
Last
updated 3-June-2004
Overview
Argumentation
can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for
and against some conclusion. Over the last few years, argumentation has
been gaining increasing importance in multi-agent systems, mainly as a
vehicle for facilitating "rational interaction" (i.e., interaction
which involves the giving and receiving of reasons). This is because
argumentation provides tools for designing, implementing and analysing
sophisticated forms of interaction among rational agents. Argumentation
has made solid contributions to the practice of multi-agent dialogues.
Application domains include: legal disputes, business negotiation,
labor disputes, team formation, scientific inquiry, deliberative
democracy, ontology reconciliation, risk analysis, scheduling, and
logistics. A single agent may also use argumentation techniques to
perform its individual reasoning because it needs to make decisions
under complex preferences policies, in a highly dynamic environment.
This workshop
will be concerned with the use of the concepts, theories,
methodologies, and computational models of argumentation in building
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The workshop will solicit
papers looking at both theory and practice. In particular, the workshop
aims at bridging the gap between the vast amount of work on
argumentation theory and the practical needs of multi-agent systems
research.
The workshop
will be co-located with the third international conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2004.
Topics
We solicit
papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
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Computational models for argumentation
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Argumentation-based decision making
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Argumentation-based joint deliberation
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Argumentation-based persuasion
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Argumentation-based inquiry
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Argumentation-based negotiation and conflict resolution
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Argumentation and risk assessment
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Argumentation for legal reasoning
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Argumentation for electronic democracy
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Argumentation for coordination, cooperation and team formation
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Argumentation and game theory in multi-agent systems
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Human-agent argumentation
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Argumentation and preferences modelling
- Strategic
behaviour in argument-based dialogues
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Deception, trust, reputation in argument-based interaction
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Computational complexity of argumentation dialogues
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Properties of argumentation dialogues (termination, success, etc.)
- Hybrid
argumentation-based models
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Implemented argumentation-based multi-agent systems
- New
application areas
Preliminary Program
- INVITED
TALK:
Argument
as Belief-Monitoring
Prof.
Jonathan Adler, Faculty of Philosophy, City University of New
York
Abstract:
Argument is generally conceived as aiming at rational
persuasion. However, argument serves another crucial cognitive
function: It is a device of belief self-correction. By arguing
with an agent, whose judgments I do not control, yet which are
coordinated with mine, I can uncover weaknesses in my own
beliefs, and weaknesses that I am barred from even recognizing by
the very fact of belief. Similarly, perception, memory, simple
reasoning, and testimony are generally viewed as reliable ways to
acquire good information (new beliefs). But these are also on-going
mechanisms to monitor, and
so correct or revise, beliefs. I want to explore the value of argument
as a second-order
monitoring system of self-correction, and for the conceptual and
modeling problems this role raises.
- FULL
PAPERS:
- Some preliminary steps towards a meta-theory for formal inter-agent dialogues
Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney and Michael Wooldridge
- Formal Dialectic Specification
Simon Wells and Chris Reed
- Towards a formal and implemented model of
argumentation schemes in agent communication
Chris Reed and Doug Walton
- On the generation of bipolar goals in
argumentation-based negotiation
Leila Amgoud and Souhila Kaci
- Is it worth arguing?
Nishan C. Karunatillake and Nicholas R. Jennings
- Bargaining and argument-based negotiation: some
preliminary comparisons
Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg and Peter McBurney
- A Bayes Net approach to argumentation-based
negotiation
Sabyasachi Saha and Sandip Sen
- When is it okay to lie? A simple model of
contradiction in agent-based dialogues
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons and Mathew Davies
- Layered strategies and protocols for
argumentation-based interaction
Antonis Kakas, Nicolas Maudet and Pavlos Moraitis
- A dialogue game protocol for multiagent argument
over proposals
for action
Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon and Peter McBurney
- A Persuasion Dialogue Game based on Commitments
and Arguments
Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin and Brahim Chaib-draa
- An argument-based framework to model an agent's
beliefs in a dynamic environment
M. Capobianco, C.I. Chesnevar and G.R. Simari
- Revising beliefs through arguments: bridging the
gap between argumentation and belief revision in MAS
Fabio Paglieri and Cristiano Castelfranchi
- POSITION
STATEMENTS:
- Communicating Conventions of
Argumentation-based Dialogue Games
Jarred P. McGinnis
- Evidence and Argumentation based Risk
Assessment
Will Shenton, Trent Cain, Ryan How
Important
Dates
Submission
Deadline: |
Thursday
1 April 2004 |
Notification
of Acceptance: |
Saturday
1 May 2004 |
Camera
Ready Due: |
Tuesday
25 May 2004 |
Workshop: |
Mon 19
July 2004 |
Publication
The
proceedings of ArgMAS will be printed and distributed at the workshop.
It is planned
to publish revised versions of the accepted full papers in an edited
book as part of the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI) series. This publication will have an ISBN number, and will be
available both in printed form, as well as electronically on the
SpringerLink online library.
Submission
Procedure
Contributors
may submit either full papers (no longer than 5000 words, not including
figures) or a two page position statement that outlines their
interests, background, and discussion of an aspect of the workshop
theme.
Authors are
encouraged to submit their papers in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) style, since this will be the format required
for the post-proceedings book. Formatting instructions, as well as the
style and sample files, can be found here:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
All
submissions should be sent either in PostScript format or in PDF format
by email to Iyad Rahwan on
At least one
author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.
Organising
Committee
Co-Chairs:
ArgMAS
Steering Committee
- Antonis
Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Nicolas
Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
- Peter
McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Pavlos
Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Simon
Parsons (CUNY, NY, USA)
- Iyad
Rahwan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Chris
Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
Program
Committee
- Leila
Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Frank
Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Rogier
van Eijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Antonis
Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Nicolas
Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
- Peter
McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Pavlos
Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Xavier
Parent (King's College, UK)
- Simon
Parsons (CUNY, NY, USA)
- Henry
Prakken (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Iyad
Rahwan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Chris
Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
- Carles
Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
- Paolo
Torroni (Università di Bologna, Italy)
- Bart
Verheij (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- Gerard
Vreeswijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Mike
Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
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