New deadline: IEEE Intelligent Systems special issue on "Argumentation Technology"
Iyad Rahwan
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Final Call for Papers
IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Special Issue on Argumentation Technology
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Submission deadline: 12 Mar. 2007
A PDF version of this the call is available here:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/docs/IEEE-IS-CFP.pdf
The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of
research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics,
and psychology. Over the last few years, formal models of argumentation
have been gaining increasing importance in artificial intelligence, and
have found a wide range of applications ranging from specifying
semantics for logic programs, to natural language text generation, to
supporting legal reasoning, to facilitating multiagent dialogue and
negotiation.
Various forums have been dedicated to the theory of argumentation in AI,
such as the
* International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA
2006)
* Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) workshop series
* Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 04, 05, 06) workshop series
However, no consolidated state-of-the-art survey on the practical
applications of argumentation in AI exists.
This special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems aims to report on the
state of the art on the applications of argumentation in AI. We solicit
original research papers on topics including, but not limited to,
* Applications of argumentation in complex-systems engineering and design
* Argument-based decision support systems
* Argument extraction from real data
* Argumentation in computer-supported collaborative work
* Argumentation in natural language processing
* E-democracy and e-government applications
* Educational applications of argumentation
* Intelligent tools for argument construction and analysis
* Legal applications
* Medical applications
* Practical argument-based multiagent systems
* Semantic Web applications
We’re especially interested in papers reporting on deployed systems or
pilot systems that provide highly promising techniques and ideas. We’re
also interested in surveys of specific areas of application, such as
argument-based legal-decision support.
Important Dates
Submissions due for review: 12 Mar. 2007
Notification of 1st decision: 18 Apr. 2007
Revisions due: 9 May 2007
Notification of acceptance: 12 Jun. 2007
Final version submitted: 22 Jun. 2007
Issue publication: Sept./Oct. 2007
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure
or table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine’s style and
presentation guidelines (see www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm).
References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript,
access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central,
at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/index.html.
Questions?
For more information, contact Guest Editors Iyad Rahwan, and Peter McBurney.
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Dr. Iyad Rahwan | Honorary Fellow
Institute of Informatics | School of Informatics
British University in Dubai | University of Edinburgh
P.O.Box 502216 Dubai, UAE | United Kingdom
Tel: +971-4-3671959 |
email: ira...@acm.org
web: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/
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