Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS)
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Argumentation in AI Book

New Book

"Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence" 

Edited by I. Rahwan and G. R. Simari
with a forward by Johan van Benthem

You can now pre-order the book from Springer through this link (book due to appear 08/2009).


Journal of Argument & Computation

New Journal

"Argument & Computation

Editors: Chris Reed, Floriana Grasso, Iyad Rahwan and Guillermo R. Simari

Published by Taylor & Francis. Submit here.

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.

The workshop series is 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 following are the ArgMAS workshops held or planned so far in the series.

Post-proceedings of previous editions of the workshop have been published in the following Springer LNCS volumes:

P. McBurney, I. Rahwan, S. Parsons, and N. Maudet (Eds.) (2010). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, 6th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 6057, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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LNCS 6057
I. Rahwan and P. Moraitis (Eds.) (2009). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Fifth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 5384, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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I. Rahwan, S. Parsons, and C. Reed (Eds.) (2008). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Forth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2007 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4946, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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LNAI 4946
N. Maudet, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2007). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4766, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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LNAI 4766

S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis, and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2006). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4049, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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LNAI 4049

I. Rahwan, P. Moraitis and C. Reed (Eds.) (2005). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Proceedings of the First International Workshop (ArgMAS'04): Expanded and Invited Contributions, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3366, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
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LNAI 3366

ArgMAS Steering Committee

In order to organise ArgMAS, a steering committee was established in 2003. Each year, members from the steering committee volunteer to form the organising committee for ArgMAS. The steering committee is currently made up of the following members:

  • Antonis Kakas
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Cyprus
    75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O. Box 537
    CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Nicolas Maudet
    LAMSADE
    Université Paris 9 Dauphine
    75775 Paris Cedex 16
    France

  • Peter McBurney
    Department of Computer Science
    Ashton Building
    University of Liverpool
    Ashton Street
    Liverpool L69 3BX, UK

  • Pavlos Moraitis
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Paris-Descartes University
    45 rue des Saints-Peres
    75270 Paris Cedex 06
    France

  • Simon Parsons
    Department of Computer and Information Science
    Brooklyn College
    City University of New York
    2900 Bedford Avenue
    Brooklyn, 11210 NY

  • Iyad Rahwan
    Information Technology Program
    Masdar Institute of Science & Tech
    P.O.Box 54224, Abu Dhabi
    United Arab Emirates
    (Visiting Scholar) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cambridge, MA
    USA

  • Chris Reed
    Department of Applied Computing
    University of Dundee
    Dundee DD1 4HN
    Scotland, UK
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