ArgMAS 2004

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-- Call for Papers --

First International Workshop on
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

(ArgMAS 2004)

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Mon 19 or Tue 20, July 2004, Columbia University, NY, USA
In Conjunction with AAMAS 2004

http://web.dis.unimelb.edu.au/pgrad/iyadr/argmas/

Last updated 17-Jan-2004


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Overview
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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.


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Topics
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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


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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Thursday 1 April 2004 (no extensions)
Notification of Acceptance: Saturday 1 May 2004
Workshop: Mon 19 or Tue 20, July 2004


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Publication
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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.


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Submission Procedure
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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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.


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Organising Committee
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Co-Chairs:


Iyad Rahwan (Corresponding Organiser)
Department of Information Systems
University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010 Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pavlos Moraitis
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos St.
cY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Chris Reed
Department of Applied Computing
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
Scotland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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ArgMAS Steering Committee
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- 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)


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Program Committee
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- Leila Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
- Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Rogier van Eijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Xavier Parent (King's College, UK)
- Henry Prakken (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
- Paolo Torroni (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
- Bart Verheij (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
- Gerard Vreeswijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)