Seventh
International Workshop on
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2010)
Toronto,
Canada, May 10, 2010
In Conjunction with AAMAS
2010
ArgMAS
series web site:
http://www.mit.edu/~irahwan/argmas/
News
& Announcements
- (6 April
2010) The program is now posted.
- (3
Mar 2010) We are delighted to announce that ArgMAS will feature an
invited lecture by philosopher David Hitchcock. See below for more
details.
- (5
Dec 2009) ArgMAS 2010 web page up.
Overview
This
workshop will focus on the concepts, theories, methodologies, and
applications of computational models of argumentation in building
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Argumentation can be
abstractly defined as the formal interaction of different arguments for
and against some conclusion (eg, a proposition, an action intention, a
preference, etc.). An agent may use argumentation techniques to perform
individual reasoning, in order to resolve conflicting evidence or to
decide between conflicting goals. Multiple agents
may also
use dialectical argumentation in order to identify and reconcile
differences between themselves, through interactions such as
negotiation, persuasion, and joint deliberation.
The
main goal
of this workshop will be to bring together the community of researchers
working on argumentation in multi-agent systems. The workshop has the
following technical goals:
- To
explore
the use of argumentation in practical reasoning.
- To
investigate how argumentation can be used to enable rational
interaction between autonomous agents.
- To
explore
the applicability of argumentation for solving a variety of problems in
multi-agent systems, such as information exchange, negotiation, team
formation, deliberation, etc.
- To
explore
strategic reasoning and behaviour in argumentation-based interaction.
- To
understand how argumentation relates to other areas of multiagent
research, such as game theory, agent communications, and planning.
- To
present
and encourage implemented systems which demonstrate the use of
argumentation in 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.
Post-proceedings
of previous editions of the workshop have been published in the
following Springer LNCS volumes:
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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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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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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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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. |
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
Accepted
Papers
PAPERS
ACCEPTED FOR FULL PRESENTATION
- Elizabeth
Black and Katie Atkinson. Agreeing what to do
- Chukwuemeka
David Emele, Timothy J. Norman, Frank Guerin and Simon Parsons. On the Benefits of
Argumentation-derived Evidence in Learning Policies
- Respondent:
Tom van der Weide
- Marcela
Capobianco and Guillermo R. Simari. An Argument-Based
Multi-Agent System for Information Integration
- Tom van
der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Gerard
Vreeswijk. Arguing
About Preferences And Decisions
- Eric Kok,
John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Gerard Vreeswijk. A Formal Argumentation
Framework for Deliberation Dialogues
- Respondent:
Elizabeth Black
- Yuqing
Tang, Timothy Norman and Simon Parsons. Computing Argumentation
in Polynomial Number of BDD Operations: A Preliminary Report
- Respondent:
Guillermo Simari
- Simon
Parsons, Peter McBurney and Elizabeth Sklar. Reasoning about Trust
using Argumentation: A Position Paper
PAPERS ACCEPTED
FOR SHORT PRESENTATION
- Kenichi
OKUNO and Kazuko TAKAHASHI. Argumentation System
Allowing Suspend/Resume of an Argumentation Line
- Maxime
Morge and Sameh Abdel-Naby. Towards a dialectical
approach for conversational agents in selling situations
- M. Julieta
Marcos, Marcelo A. Falappa and Guillermo R. Simari. Dynamic Argumentation
in Abstract Dialogue Frameworks
- Toshiko
Wakaki. Preference-based
Argumentation Capturing Prioritized Logic Programming
- Enric
Plaza and Santiago Ontañón. Empirical
Argumentation: Integrating Induction and Argumentation in MAS
- Ioan
Alfred Letia and Adrian Groza. Towards Pragmatic
Argumentative Agents within a Fuzzy Description Logic Framework
- Stella
Heras, Vicente Botti and Vicente Julian. On a Computational
Model of Argument for Agent Societies
Invited Talk
- Speaker: David Hitchcock, Professor of Philosophy,
McMaster University, Canada
- Title:
"Instrumental Rationality"
Programme
- 0900 Opening and Welcome
- 0900 – 1215: Session 1, Practical
Reasoning
- 0900
– 0930: Black
- 0930
– 1000: Kok
- 1000 – 1030: Coffee
- 1030
– 1045: Ontanon
- 1045
– 1115: Weide
- 1115
– 1215: Hitchcock (Invited
Talk)
- 1215
– 1345: Lunch
- 1345 – 1500: Session 2, Applications
- 1345
– 1400: Morge
- 1400
– 1430: Emele
- 1430
– 1445: Heras
- 1445
– 1500: Parsons
- 1500 – 1530: Coffee
- 1530 - 1730: Session 3,
Theoretical Aspects
- 1530
– 1600: Capobianco
- 1600
– 1615: Okuno
- 1615
– 1630: Marcos
- 1630
– 1700: Tang
- 1700
– 1715: Wakaki
- 1715
– 1730: Letia
- 1730: Close of ArgMAS 2010
Important
Dates
Note
that these dates are set by AAMAS and cannot be extended.
Submission
Deadline: |
2
February
2010 |
Notification
of
Acceptance/Rejection: |
2
March 2010 |
Camera
Ready Due: |
7 March
2010 |
Workshop: |
10
May
2010 |
Publication
The
proceedings of ArgMAS will be printed and
distributed at the workshop.
As
done with previous ArgMAS workshops, 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 would have an ISBN number, and would be available both in
printed form, as well as electronically on the SpringerLink online
library.
Submission
Procedure
As
with
previous workshops, each ArgMAS submission will be reviewed anonymously
by two members of the expert program committee, who will exercise
rigorous standards in evaluating the papers.
Contributors
may submit either full papers (no
longer than 18 pages) 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
Papers
must be submitted through a dedicated
EasyChair site, which can be found at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argmas2010
At
least one author of each accepted papers must
register for the workshop.
Organising
Committee
Co-Chairs:
- Peter
McBurney
(Corresponding Organiser)
Department of Computer Science
Ashton Building, University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
mcburney [at] liverpool.ac.uk
- 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 |
ArgMAS
Steering Committee
- Antonis
Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Nicolas
Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
- Peter
McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Pavlos
Moraitis (Paris Descartes University,
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, Concordia University, Canada
- Elizabeth
Black, Oxford University, UK
- Guido Boella,
Università di Torino, Italy
- Carlos
Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Frank Dignum,
Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Yannis
Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Sylvie
Doutre, University of Toulouse 1, France
- 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, London, UK
- Sanjay
Modgil, Imperial College, London, UK
- Pavlos
Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France
- Tim Norman,
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Nir Oren,
King's College, London, UK
- Fabio
Paglieri, ISTC-CNR, Roma IT
- Simon
Parsons, City University of New York, USA
- Enric Plaza,
Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
- Henri Prade,
IRIT, Toulouse, France
- Henry
Prakken, Utrecht University, & University of Groningen, The
Netherlands
- Iyad Rahwan,
Masdar Institute, UAE, & University of Edinburgh, UK
- Chris Reed,
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Michael
Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Guillermo
Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Francesca
Toni, Imperial College, London, UK
- Leon van der
Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Paolo
Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Bart Verheij,
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Gerard
Vreeswijk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Douglas
Walton, University of Winnipeg, Canada
- Simon Wells,
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Michael
Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
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