Call for Papers: ARGAIP 2010 - 1st Workshop on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy

- Call for Papers -

ARGAIP 2010

1st Workshop on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy:
computational and philosophical perspectives

http://wsarg2010.ing.unibs.it/

Part of the 11th Symposium of the Italian Association for the Artificial Intelligence

Brescia, December 1-3, 2010

Argumentation is an important and exciting research topic that cuts across a variety of disciplines: Philosophy, Psychology, Communications Studies and Computer Science, in particular Artificial Intelligence. In spite of the wide range of disciplines interested in Argumentation, scientific communities tend to be organized along disciplinary boundaries, with only moderate integration occurring between computational models and philosophical theories of Argumentation. This workshop aims to rectify this situation, bringing together people
from various disciplines (most notably, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Psychology) and asking them to compare their methods and results in the study of Argumentation.

The “Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: computational and philosophical perspectives” workshop will be hosted by the University of Brescia, Italy, in the context of the 11th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2010), December 1-3. The expected date of the workshop, December 1, is to be confirmed (a possible change to December 2/3 depends on organizational reasons).

Submissions are invited for full papers, in English or Italian, no longer than 8 pages (including references), presenting original research on Argumentation from a philosophical and/or computational perspective (see details below). Each contribution will be reviewed.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Analysis of controversies
- Applications of argumentation technologies (e.g. e-democracy, risk assessment, law and medicine)
- Argument schemes
- Argumentation and epistemology
- Argumentation and game theory
- Argumentation and human-computer interaction
- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
- Argumentation in a legal context
- Argumentation in a medical context
- Argumentation in a political context
- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
- Argumentation in debate
- Argumentation in the media
- Argumentation structures
- Argumentation, trust and reputation
- Argumentation-based negotiation
- Computational properties of argumentation
- Decision making based on argumentation
- Dialogue systems based on argumentation
- Fallacies
- Formal and informal models for argumentation
- Implementation of argumentation systems
- Persuasion research
- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
- Rhetoric and argumentation
- Strategies and argumentation
- Systems for learning through argument
- Tools for supporting argumentation
- Visual argumentation

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010
Acceptance Notification: October 20, 2010
Camera ready: October 28, 2010
Early registration: October 25, 2010
Workshop: December 1, 2010 (to be confirmed)

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be made available via the workshop web-site and possibly published in the Symposium Proceedings (the publication of the Symposium Proceedings is to be confirmed by AI*IA). Furthermore, the
possibility of publishing an extended version of selected accepted papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration by the organising committee of the workshop.
Papers should be written in English or Italian and not exceed 8 pages, including references. All papers should be prepared in the AAAI style available from the conference website. Paper submission is managed through EasyChair and is open between July 27 and September 30.

Organising committee

Workshop Chair: Massimiliano Giacomin (University of Brescia, Italy)
Computational Track Chair: Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Philosophical Track Chair: Fabio Paglieri (ISTC-CNR Roma, Italy)