11-13 Oct 2021
* Call for Abstracts: Third Workshop on Argument Strength * When: October 11-13, 2021 Where: either on site at FernUniversität in Hagen or online (this will be announced mid-June at the latest) Form: to be decided Website: http://argstrength2021.argumentationcompetition.org/ Abstract deadline: July 19, 2021 Arguments vary in strength. The strength of an argument is affected by e.g. the plausibility of its premises, the nature of the link between its premises and conclusion, and the prior acceptability of the conclusion. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, logic, and argumentation theory to discuss questions related to the strength of arguments. Such questions include: -Which factors influence the strength of an argument? -What are the pros and cons of different formal representations of argument strength? -How to formally model qualifiers on the conclusions of arguments? -How does argument strength propagate when inferences are chained? -How do arguments accrue? -Can weaker arguments defeat and/or defend stronger arguments? -When do more specific arguments defeat more general arguments and vice versa? -How do formal and informal approaches to argument strength relate? -How do preferences assigned to premises influence the evaluation of arguments? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) -Sanjay Modgil (King's College London, England) -Wolfgang Spohn (University Konstanz, Germany) -Serena Villata (I3S research centre in Sophia Antipolis, France) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION We solicit abstracts, which have to be in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ) Extended abstracts (2 pages max., including references) can report on research in progress or other issues of interest. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argstrength2021 POST-PROCEEDINGS As was the case with the previous two editions, we will organise a special issue of the journal Argument and Computation, containing original, high-quality contributions on the basis of talks given at the workshop. Submissions will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process. ORGANISATION TEAM Matthias Thimm (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Tjitze Rienstra (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Kenneth Skiba (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund, Germany) Jesse Heyninck (TU Dortmund, Germany) Christoph Beierle (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany) -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam