ArgMAS 2009 — Call for Papers (Sixth International Workshop, Budapest, 12 May 2009)
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 builds on the following successful workshops:
- ArgMAS 2008 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2008, in Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008
(attracted 21 participants)
- ArgMAS 2007 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2007, in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA (attracted 22
participants)
- ArgMAS 2006 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2006, at Future University, Hakodate, Japan
(attracted 21 participants)
- ArgMAS 2005 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2005, at Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The
Netherlands (attracted 31 participants)
- ArgMAS 2004 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2004, at Columbia University, New York, USA
(attracted 20 participants)
Post-proceedings of previous editions of the workshop have been published in the following
Springer LNCS volumes:
[LNCS 5284] I. Rahwan and P. Moraitis (Eds.) (2009). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems:
Fifth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008 Revised Selected and
Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 5384, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Germany..
[] I. Rahwan, S. Parsons, and C. Reed (Eds.) (2008). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems:
Forth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2007 Revised Selected and
Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4946, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Germany.
[] N. Maudet, S. Parsons and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2007). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems:
Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and
Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4766, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Germany.
[] S. Parsons, N. Maudet, P. Moraitis, and I. Rahwan (Eds.) (2006). Argumentation in
Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 26,
2005, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume
4049, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
[] I. Rahwan, P. Moraitis and C. Reed (Eds.) (2005). Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop (ArgMAS'04): Expanded and Invited
Contributions. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3366, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
Germany.
The 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.
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
Accepted Papers
Accepted Long Presentations:
- Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos and Iyad Rahwan: A Generative Dialogue System for
Arguing about Plans in Situation Calculus
- Joseph Devereux and Chris Reed: Strategic Argumentation in Rigorous Persuasion Dialogue
- Paul-Amaury Matt, Francesca Toni and Juan Vaccari: Dominant decisions by argumentation
agents
- Fahd Saud Nawwab, Trevor Bench-Capon and Paul E. Dunne: Emotions in Rational Decision Making
- Toshiko Wakaki, Katsumi Nitta and Hajime Sawamura: Computing Abductive Argumentation in
Answer Set Programming
- Maya Wardeh, Trevor Bench-Capon and Frans Coenen: Multi-Party Argument from Experience
- Tom van der Weide, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Gerard Vreeswijk:
Practical Reasoning Using Values
Accepted Short Presentations:
- Stella Heras, Martí Navarro, Vicente Botti and Vicente Julian: Applying Dialogue Games to
Manage Recommendation in Social Networks
- Maxime Morge: Assumption-based argumentation for the minimal concession strategy
- Nir Oren and Timothy Norman: Arguing Using Opponent Models
- Matthias Thimm: Realizing Argumentation in Multi Agent Systems using Defeasible Logic
Programming
- Cassia Trojahn, Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira and Antoine Isaac: Comparing Argumentation
Frameworks for Composite Ontology Matching
- Ricardo Santos, Goreti Marreiros, Carlos Ramos, José Neves and José Bulas-Cruz:
Argumentation-based Group Decision Making Considering Personality Factors
Accepted Position Statements:
- Yinping Yang, Ya Hui Michelle See and Andrew Ortony. The role of strategic framing in
agent-to-human negotiation: A conceptual perspective
Important Dates
Tentative Dates (subject to confirmation):
Submission Deadline: Friday 30 January 2009
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: Friday 27 February 2009
Camera Ready Due: Wednesday 11 March 2009
Workshop: 12 May 2009
Publication
The proceedings of ArgMAS will be printed and distributed at the workshop.
As done with previous ArgMAS workshops, 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 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 18 pages) 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
Papers must be submitted through a dedicated EasyChair site, which can be found at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argmas2009
At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.
Organising Committee
Co-Chairs:
Peter McBurney (Corresponding Organiser)
Department of Computer Science
Ashton Building, University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
mcburney [at] liverpool.ac.uk
Simon Parsons
Department of Computer and Information Science
Brooklyn College
City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, 11210 NY
Iyad Rahwan
Faculty of Informatics (Fellow) School of Informatics
British University in Dubai University of Edinburgh
P.O.Box 502216, Dubai Edinburgh, EH8 9LE
United Arab Emirates UK
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Nicolas Maudet
LAMSADE
Universite Paris 9 Dauphine
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
ArgMAS Steering Committee
- Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Nicolas Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine, France)
- Peter McBurney (University of Liverpool, UK)
- Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes University, France)
- Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
- Iyad Rahwan (British University in Dubai, UAE, and University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Chris Reed (University of Dundee, UK)
Program Committee
- Leila Amgoud, IRIT, Toulouse, France
- Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
- Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
- Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
- Guido Boella, Università di Torino, Italy
- Carlos Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Sylvie Doutre, University of Toulouse 1, France
- Paul E Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK
- Rogier van Eijk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Anthony Hunter, University College, London, UK
- Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
- Nishan Karunatillake, University of Southampton, UK
- Nicolas Maudet, Universite Paris Dauphine, France
- Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK
- Jarred McGinnis, London, UK
- Sanjay Modgil, King's College, London, UK
- Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France
- Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Nir Oren, King's College, London, UK
- Fabio Paglieri, ISTC-CNR, Roma IT
- Simon Parsons, City University of New York, USA
- Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Enric Plaza, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
- Henri Prade, IRIT, Toulouse, France
- Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, & University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Alun Preece, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
- Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai, UAE, & University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Sarvapali Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK
- Chris Reed, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Michael Rovatson, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Hajime Sawamura, Niigata University, Japan
- Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Elizabeth Sklar, City University of New York, USA
- Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK
- Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Gerard Vreeswijk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Douglas Walton, University of Winnipeg, Canada
- Simon Wells, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
