ArgMAS 2005

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Second International Workshop on
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2005)
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25th or 26th July 2005, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands In
Conjunction with AAMAS 2005

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

Last updated 20th-January-2005

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, 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.

The workshop will be co-located with the fourth international conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2005.

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 

Important Dates

Note that the dates are fixed by the AAMAS conference:
Submission Deadline:  March 14th 2005
Notification of Acceptance:  April 18th 2005 Camera Ready Due:  TBA
Workshop: 25th or 26th July 2005

Publication

The proceedings of ArgMAS will be printed and distributed at the workshop.

As we did for ArgMAS 2004, 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 Simon Parsons on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

Organising Committee

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]

ArgMAS Steering Committee

    * 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) 

Program Committee

    * 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)