14-16 May 2010
Toronto ON, Canada
NMR 2010 Special session on Argument, Dialogue and Decision May 14-16, 2010 Sutton Place, Toronto, Canada http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NMR2010/NMR_2010/Argument,_Dialog_and_Decision.html Since the work of John Pollock, Ronald Loui and others in the eighties, argumentation has proven to be successful in nonmonotonic logic. In the ear ly nineties Dung and others showed that argumentation is also very suitable as a general framework for relating different nonmonotonic logics. Finally, in recent years argument-based logics have been used to facilitate reasoning a nd communication in multi-agent systems. Argumentation can be studied on its own, but it also has interesting relati ons with other topics, such as dialogue and decision. For instance, argumentati on is an essential component of such phenomena as fact finding investigations, computer supported collaborative work, negotiation, legal procedure, and on line dispute mediation. However, only recently researchers have begun to explore the use of argumentation in these contexts. TOPICS This workshop is devoted to the logical study of argumentation and its connections with decision and dialogue. In particular, we invite submission s of original research on the following topics. The study of argument-based logics including • semantics • proof theory • complexity and resource limitations • applications to epistemic and practical reasoning • applications to informal theories of argumentation • comparison with other types of nonmonotonic logic The development of argument-based logical systems in formal models of multi-agent reasoning and interaction, such as • fact finding investigations • negotiation • distributed sense-making • dispute resolution and mediation • decision making SESSION CO-CHAIRS • Iyad Rahwan , British University in Dubai, UAE; University of Edi nburgh, UK • Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions are limited to 7 pages using KR/AAAI paper format (See http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Only PDF format will b e accepted. Submissions should be sent via EasyChair using the following site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2009add Please contact the co-chairs by e-mail for any queries. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of papers: January 29 (Friday), 2010 • Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010 • Camera ready copy: April 6, 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE • Leila Amgoud, Universite Paul Sabatier, France • Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada • Carlos Chesnevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina • Paul E. Dunne, University of Liverpool, UK • Alejandro Garcia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina • Anthony Hunter, University College London • Michael Maher, National ICT Australia • Sanjay Modgil, Kings College, London, UK • Nir Oren, Kings College, London, UK • Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College CUNY, USA • Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, Th e Netherlands • Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai, UAE; University of Edin burgh, UK • Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina • Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy • Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, Netherlands • Simon Wells, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK