ArgMAS 2009

 ArgMAS 2009 — programme (Budapest, 12 May 2009, in conjunction with AAMAS 2009)

Programme
Note that, for every long presentation, we have appointed a designated respondent (as is usual 
in Philosophy workshops), in order to better focus questions and feedback to paper presenters.
- [09:00] Workshop opens
- [09:00 – 10:30] Session 1: Practical Reasoning & Argument about Action
(Session Chair: Peter McBurney)
- [09:00 – 09:30]
- Long Presentation: Tom van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and 
Gerard Vreeswijk: Practical Reasoning Using Values
- Respondent:  Katie Atkinson
- [09:30 – 10:00]
- Long Presentation: Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos and Iyad Rahwan:  A Generative 
Dialogue System for Arguing about Plans in Situation Calculus
- Respondent: Tom van der Weide
- [10:00 – 10:30]
- Long Presentation: Paul-Amaury Matt, Francesca Toni and Juan Vaccari:  Dominant Decisions by 
Argumentation Agents
- Respondent: Alexandros Belesiotis
- [10:30 – 10:50] Coffee
- [10:50 – 11:50] Session 2: Persuasion and Negotiation
(Session Chair: Simon Parsons)
- [10:50 – 11:20]
- Long Presentation: Joseph Devereux and Chris Reed:  Strategic Argumentation in Rigorous 
Persuasion Dialogue
- Respondent: Trevor Bench-Capon
- [11:20 – 11:35]
- Short Presentation: Maxime Morge: Assumption-based Argumentation for the Minimal Concession 
Strategy
- [11:35 – 11:50]
- Short Presentation: Yinping Yang, Ya Hui Michelle See and Andrew Ortony. The role of 
Strategic Framing in Agent-to-human Negotiation: A Conceptual Perspective
- [11:50 – 12:50] Invited Talk: 
- Douglas Walton: Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogs
- [12:50 – 14:00]  Lunch
- [14:00 – 15:30] Session 3: Argumentation Theory
(Session Chair: Paul Dunne)
- [14:00 – 14:15]
- Short Presentation: Matthias Thimm: Realizing Argumentation in Multi Agent Systems using 
Defeasible Logic Programming
- [14:15 – 14:45]
- Long Presentation: Toshiko Wakaki, Katsumi Nitta and Hajime Sawamura: Computing Abductive 
Argumentation in Answer Set Programming
- Respondent: Matthias Thimm
- [14:45 – 15:15]
- Long Presentation: Maya Wardeh, Trevor Bench-Capon and Frans Coenen: Multi-Party Argument 
from Experience
- Respondent: Douglas Walton
- [15:15 – 15:30]
- Short Presentation: Nir Oren and Timothy Norman: Arguing Using Opponent Models
- [15:30 – 15:45] Coffee
- [15:45 – 17:00] Session 4: Applications and Emotions
(Session Chair: Nir Oren)
- [15:45 – 16:00]
- Short Presentation: Stella Heras, Martí Navarro, Vicente Botti and Vicente Julian: Applying 
Dialogue Games to Manage Recommendation in Social Networks
- [16:00 – 16:15]
- Short Presentation: Cassia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira and Antoine Isaac: 
Comparing Argumentation Frameworks for Composite Ontology Matching
- [16:15 – 16:45]
- Long Presentation: Fahd Saud Nawwab, Trevor Bench-Capon and Paul E. Dunne: Emotions in 
Rational Decision Making
- Respondent: Iyad Rahwan
- [16:45 – 17:00]
- Short Presentation: Ricardo Santos, Goreti Marreiros, Carlos Ramos, José Neves and José 
Bulas-Cruz: Argumentation-based Group Decision Making Considering Personality Factors
- [17:00]  Workshop closes