ArgMAS 2008

 ArgMAS 2008 — programme

Programme
Workshops will run from 9.30 to 18.30.
[09:20 - 09:30] Welcome by organisers
[09:30 - 11:00] Session 1: Dialogue
- Command Dialogues
Katie Atkinson, Peter McBurney, Roderic Allen Girle and Simon Parsons
- Argumentation and Artifact for Dialog Support
Enrico Oliva, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini and Peter McBurney.
- Argumentation based Resolution of Conflicts Between Desires and Normative Goals
Sanjay Modgil and Michael Luck.
[11:00 - 11:30] Coffee break
[11:30 - 13:00] Session 2: Foundations
- Co-ordination and Co-operation in Agent Systems: Social Laws and Argumentation
Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon.
- Personality-Based Practical Reasoning
Tom van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Gerard Vreeswijk.
- Dung Argumentation and AGM Belief Revision
Guido Boella, Celia da Costa Perera, Andrea Tettamanzi and Leon van der Torre.
[13:00 - 14:30] Lunch break
[14:30 - 16:00] Session 3: Applications
- An Argumentation Framework based on strength for Ontology Mapping
Cassia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma and Renata Vieira.
- Argumentation-based Information Exchange in Prediction Markets
Santiago Ontañón and Enric Plaza.
- Contextual Extension with Concept Maps in the Argument Interchange Format
Ioan Alfred Letia and Adrian Groza.
[16:00 - 16:30] Coffee break
[16:30 - 18:00] Session 4: Strategic Issues
- Strategic maneuvering in argumentative confrontations
Jan Albert van Laar.
- PANEL DISCUSSION: Perspectives on Argumentation Strategies
- Jan Albert van Laar - Department of theoretical philosophy, University of Groningen
- Kate Larson - Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- Simon Parsons - Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
[18:00 - 18:15] Closing by organisers