Call for Participation -- Adventures in Argumentation

From: Simon Parsons (s.d.parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 16:51:32 PDT

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               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- ADVENTURES IN ARGUMENTATION

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    There is now a substantial literature on argumentation in artificial
    intelligence. Many interesting proposals have been made, and there is
    increasing interest in applying argumentation in various domains.

    However, there are also many problems surrounding proposals for
    argumentation, both at the theoretical level and at the applications
    level. Problems include computational complexity, viable
    implementations, semantics for arguments, richer ontologies for
    describing different kinds of argument, incorporation of domain or
    world knowledge in argumentation systems, handling time in
    argumentation, handling uncertainty in argumentation, presentation of
    arguments to non-technical users, finding applications where users can
    use the results of argumentation, the need for toolkits, and so on. We
    need to better understand these problems, and many others besides, and
    some of them seem to call for bold new proposals.

    This workshop is intended to be a small informal workshop for
    researchers in the area of argumentation to present ongoing research
    and ideas. Furthermore, we would like to encourage papers that are
    speculative or even provocative positions, with a view to having a
    lively and interesting workshop.

    The workshop will be held on the 18th September in conjunction with
    the Sixth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches
    to Reasoning with Uncertainty, in Toulouse, France.

    WEB PAGE:
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        http://www.irit.fr/ECSQARU-2001/workshop3.html

     
    WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
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    * Anthony Hunter (University College, London) a.hunter@cs.ucl.ac.uk
    * Simon Parsons (University of Liverpool) s.d.parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk
      
    ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
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    * Leila Amgoud (Universite d'Angers, France)
    * Laurence Cholvy (ONERA, Toulouse, France)
    * Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
    * Claire Saurel (ONERA, Toulouse, France)
    * Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina).
      
    PRESENTATIONS
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    Discussing logic-based argumentation in extended electronic commerce
    environments, L. Brito and J. Neves

    On the notion of strength in argumentation: overcoming the
    epistemic/practical dichotomy, P. Baroni, M. Giacomin and G. Guida

    Needs of argumentation for plane certification, L. Cholvy and C. Saurel

    A survey of probabilistic argumentation, R. Haenni, B. Anrig, J. Kohlas
    and N. Lehmann

    Ramification analysis with structured news reports using temporal
    argumentation, A Hunter
            
    The notion of relevance in dialectical systems, N. Maudet.

    Desiderata for dialogue-game protocols for agent interactions,
    P. McBurney and S. Parsons

    Fuzzy argumentation and extended logic programming, M. Schroeder and
    R. Schweimeier

    Modelling argumentation in a logic programming setting: Formalization
    and logical properties, G. Simari, C. Chesnevar, and A. Garcia



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