Third
International Workshop on
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006)
8 May 2006,
Future University, Hakodate, Japan
In Conjunction with AAMAS
2006
ArgMAS
series web site:
http://www.mit.edu/~irahwan/argmas/
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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
builds on two successful workshops:
- ArgMAS
2005 held in conjunction with AAMAS
2005,
at
Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands (attracted 31
participants)
- ArgMAS
2004 held in conjunction with AAMAS
2004,
at Columbia University, New York, USA (attracted 20 participants)
The 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 fourth international
conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2006.
Topics
We solicit
papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Computational
models for argumentation
- Argumentation-based
decision making
- Argumentation-based
joint deliberation
- Argumentation-based
persuasion
- Argumentation-based
inquiry
- Argumentation-based
negotiation and conflict resolution
- Argumentation
and risk assessment
- Argumentation
for legal reasoning
- Argumentation
for electronic democracy
- Argumentation
for coordination, cooperation and team formation
- Argumentation
and game theory in multi-agent systems
- Human-agent
argumentation
- Argumentation
and preferences modelling
- Strategic
behaviour in argument-based dialogues
- Deception,
trust, reputation in argument-based interaction
- Computational
complexity of argumentation dialogues
- Properties
of argumentation dialogues (termination, success, etc.)
- Hybrid
argumentation-based models
- Implemented
argumentation-based multi-agent systems
- New
application areas
Programme
- 09:00am-10:30am
SESSION 1: FOUNDATIONS
- A
Generalization of Dung's Abstract Frameowork for Argumentation: Arguing
with Sets of Attacking Arguments
Soren Holbech Nielsen, and Simon Parsons
- Towards an Argument Interchange Format for Multiagent
Systems
Steven Willmott, Gerard Vreeswijk, Matthew South, Carlos Chesnevar,
Guillermo Simari, Jarred McGinis, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, and Sanjay
Modgil
- PANEL DISCUSSION: "The Argument Interchange Format"
- 10:30am-11:00am
COFFEE BREAK
- 11:00am-12:30pm
SESSION 2: EXPLORATIONS
- Managing
Social Influences Through Argumentation-Based Negotiation
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iyad Rahwan and
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn
- Argumentation-based Learning
Taro Fukumoto and Hajime Sawamura
- Arguments and Counterexamples in Case-based
Deliberation
Santiago Ontanon and Enric Plaza
- 12:30pm-02:00pm
LUNCH
- 02:00pm-03:30pm
SESSION 3: STRATEGIC ASPECTS
- Argumentation
and Persuasion in the Cognitive Coherence Theory
Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum and Liz Sonenberg
- An Argumentation-Based Approach for Dialogue Move
Selection
Leila Amgoud and Nabil Hameurlain
- Lose Lips Sink Ships, a Heuristic for Argumentation
Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, and Alun Preece
- 03:30pm-04:00pm
COFFEE BREAK
- 04:00pm-05:30pm
SESSION 4: STRATEGIC ASPECTS (CONT.)
- Strategic
and Tactic Reasoning for Communicating Agents
Jamal Bentahar, Mohamed Mbarki, and Bernard Moulin
- POSITION PAPER: A Framework for Learning Argumentation
Strategies
Chukwuemeka David Emele, Frank Guerin, Timothy J. Norman, and Pete
Edwards
- PANEL DISCUSSION: "Strategies in Argumentation and
Dialogue"
Important
Dates
Note that the
dates are fixed by the AAMAS conference:
Submission
Deadline: |
1 Feb
2006 |
Notification
of Acceptance/Rejection: |
19 Feb
2006 |
Camera
Ready Due: |
12 Mar
2006 |
Workshop: |
8 May 2006 |
Publication
The
proceedings of ArgMAS will be printed and distributed at the workshop.
As we did for
ArgMAS 2004 and ArgMAS 2005, 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 would have an ISBN number, and would 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 planned 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 Nicolas Maudet on maudet@lamsade.dauphine.fr
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 RENE DESCARTES-Paris 5, France)
- Simon
Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
- Iyad
Rahwan (British University in Dubai, UAE, and University of Edinburgh,
UK)
- Chris
Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
Program
Committee
- Leila
Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Katie
Atkinson (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Jamal
Bentahar (Laval University, Canada)
- Carlos
Chesnevar (Universitat de Lleida, Spain)
- Frank
Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Rogier
van Eijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Anthony
Hunter (University College, London, UK)
- Antonis
Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Nikos
Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
- Nicolas
Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
- Peter
McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Jarred
McGinnis (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Pavlos
Moraitis (University RENE DESCARTES, France)
- Xavier
Parent (King's College, UK)
- Simon
Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
- Philippe
Pasquier (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Henry
Prakken (Utrecht University, and University of Groningen, The
Netherlands)
- Iyad
Rahwan (British University in Dubai, UAE, and University of Edinburgh,
UK)
- Chris
Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
- Carles
Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
- Guillermo
Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
- Katia
Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Francesca
Toni (Imperial College, London, UK)
- Paolo
Torroni (Università di Bologna, Italy)
- Bart
Verheij (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
- Gerard
Vreeswijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Mike
Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
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