CFP: 8th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2024), colocated with AIxIA 2024

[Carlo Proietti]

Call for Papers: 8th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2024)

https://krarlab.dmi.unipg.it/ai3-2024/

co-located with the 23nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024).

https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

We invite submissions of the latest research results concerning applications and theory of computational argumentation to the 8th Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2024), that is a track of the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024).

**Aims and Scope**

Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration of different specific techniques and the development of trustable applications.

For these reasons, over the last two decades formal argumentation has become a major research topic in AI. Several theoretical models at different levels of abstraction have been extensively studied, ranging from purely abstract models to concrete implemented systems, argumentation solvers have been developed to identify the justification status for arguments according to different semantics, and a variety of applications of argumentation have been proposed for several fields, ranging from modeling dialogues in social networks to law and medicine.

Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the goal of the workshop, is to stimulate discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers not only directly involved in argumentation, but also from research fields indirectly related to argumentation. In this respect, at least two directions can be envisaged:

- Cross-fertilization with different fields (including non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, just to mention a few) is needed to update and extend foundations in  Argumentation Theory, as well as tackling a number of open issues that are  currently debated in the area.

- Inter-disciplinary collaborations are necessary to foster the adoption of  argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with a wide range of applications.

In Italy, several research groups from different universities and institutions  have been involved in argumentation in recent years. One of the aims of the  workshop is also to bring together researchers working in argumentation to  foster collaboration and the development of a specific national research community.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Explainable AI with Argumentation
- Persuasion systems
- Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation
- Properties and evaluation of formal models of argumentation
- Computational properties of argumentation
- Traditional and ranking-based semantics
- Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks
- Implementation of argumentation systems
- Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks
- Philosophical theories of argumentation
- Argument mining
- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
- Dialogue based on argumentation
- Strategies in argumentation
- Decision making based on argumentation
- Argumentation-based negotiation
- Argumentation, trust and reputation
- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
- Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques
- Argumentation and game theory
- Argumentation and probability
- Argumentation and fuzzy-logic
- Argumentation and narrative
- Argumentation and computational linguistics
- Argumentation and human-computer interaction
- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
- Tools for supporting argumentation
- Practical applications of formal models of argumentation
- Systems for learning through argument
- Argument-based machine learning
- Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation

**Submissions**

The workshop invites three types of submissions:

- Full papers (15 pages), possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals

- Short papers (5 pages), which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses.

- General overviews of research projects (3 pages max). Possibly moved to a poster session.

All papers will be peer-reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conferenceproceedings will be published on CEUR in the AI*IA Series (Scopus indexed).

Manuscripts should be formatted using the 1-column CEUR-ART Style.

You can access the Overleaf template from https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw, or you can also download an offline version from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.

 

For more information see http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).

Papers must be submitted through Microsoft CMT, at the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AI32024

**Important Dates**

- Submission deadline: 6 September 2024
- Notification: 18 October 2024
- Camera ready: 18 November 2024