ArgMAS 2005

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Call for Participation

2nd International Workshop on
ARGUMENTATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (ArgMAS 2005)

With invited talk by Prof. Franz H. van Eemeren,
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Tuesday 26th July 2005, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 
In Conjunction with AAMAS 2005

Workshop website:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~parsons/events/argmas/argmas05/

Registration information:
http://www.aamas2005.nl/registration.php

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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, which builds on the successful workshop held in 2004, 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.

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Schedule
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09:00   
Lelia Amgoud
An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures

09:30 
Ramon Brena, Carlos Chesnevar and Jose Aguirre
Argumentation supported information distribution in a multiagent system for
knowledge management

10:00
Yannis Dimopoulos, Antonios Kakas and Pavlos Moraitis   
Argumentation-based modelling of embedded agent dialogues

10.30
Coffee break

11:00
Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar
How agents alter their beliefs after an argumentation-based dialogue

11:30
INVITED TALK
"Strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse"
Franz H. van Eemeren
Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric,
University of Amsterdam.

12.30
Lunch

13:30
Leon van der Torre      
A logic of abstract argumentation

14:00   
Nishan Karunatillake, Nicholas Jennings, Iyad Rahwan and Timothy Norman

Argument-based negotiation in a social context

14:30
Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahwan, Felix Fisher and Gerhard Weiss   
Adaptive strategies for practical argument-based negotiation

15:00
Coffee break

15:30
Sanjay Modgil
Nested argumentation and its application to decision making over actions

16:00
Jelle van Veenen and Henry Prakken
A verifiable protocol for arguing about rejections in negotiation

16:30
Simon Wells and Chris Reed
Testing formal dialectic

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Organising Committee
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Co-Chairs:

    * Nicolas Maudet
      LAMSADE
      Universite Paris 9 Dauphine
      75775 Paris Cedex 16
      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

    * Simon Parsons
      (Corresponding Organiser)
      Department of Computer and Information Science
      Brooklyn College
      City University of New York
      2900 Bedford Avenue
      Brooklyn, 11210 NY
      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    * Iyad Rahwan
      Institute of Informatics
      The British University in Dubai
      P.O.Box 502216 Dubai, UAE
      [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 (City University of New York, USA)
    * Iyad Rahwan (The British University in Dubai, UAE)
    * Chris Reed (University of Dundee, UK) 

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Program Committee
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    * Leila Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
    * Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool, UK)
    * Jamal Bentahar (Laval University, Canada)
    * 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)
    * Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
    * Xavier Parent (King's College, UK)
    * Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
    * Henry Prakken (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    * Iyad Rahwan (British University in Dubai, UAE)
    * Chris Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
    * Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
    * Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
    * Francesca Toni (Imperial College, London, UK)
    * Paolo Torroni (Universit  di Bologna, Italy)
    * Bart Verheij (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
    * Gerard Vreeswijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    * Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)