Call For Papers
Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration of different specific techniques and the development of trustable applications.
For these reasons, over the last two decades formal argumentation has become a main research topic in Artificial Intelligence. Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the goal of the workshop is to stimulate discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers involved in the field of argumentation from different perspectives, including computational, linguistic, philosophical and psychological aspects. Besides researchers having argumentation as a major research interest, scholars from research fields indirectly related to argumentation (including non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, just to mention a few of them) are particularly welcome, both to discuss foundations and issues in argumentation, and to present challenges and problems for which argumentation may represent a viable AI‐paradigm.
We invite submissions of the latest research results concerning applications and theory of computational argumentation to the 2nd Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2018) that will be co-located with the XVII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2018, http://aixia2018.fbk.eu/ ).
Authors are invited to submit their papers in English of up to 15 single spaced pages for full papers. Shorter works must not exceed 5 pages. All paper submissions will be done electronically, via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai31.
Extended versions of selected papers (subject to a second revision) will be published on a Special Issue of Intelligenza Artificiale the official journal of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence printed by IOS press.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Explainable AI with Argumentation
- Persuasion systems
- Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation
- Properties and evaluation of formal models of argumentation
- Computational properties of argumentation
- Traditional and ranking-based semantics
- Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks
- Implementation of argumentation systems
- Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks
- Philosophical theories of argumentation
- Argument mining
- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
- Dialogue based on argumentation
- Strategies in argumentation
- Decision making based on argumentation
- Argumentation-based negotiation
- Argumentation, trust and reputation
- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
- Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques
- Argumentation and game theory
- Argumentation and probability
- Argumentation and fuzzy-logic
- Argumentation and narrative
- Argumentation and computational linguistics
- Argumentation and human-computer interaction
- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
- Tools for supporting argumentation
- Practical applications of formal models of argumentation
- Systems for learning through argument
- Argument-based machine learning
- Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation
