An intelligent agent exploring a rich, dynamic world needs cognitive capabilities in addition to basic functionalities for perception and reaction. The abilities to reason non-monotonically, to reason about actions and to change one’s beliefs, have been identified as fundamental high-level cognitive functions necessary for common sense. Research in all three areas has made significant progress during the last two decades of the past century. It is, however, crucial to bear in mind the common goal of designing intelligent agents. Researchers should be aware of advances in all three fields since often advances in one field can be translated into advances in another. Many deep relationships have already been established. This workshop has the specific aim of promoting cross-fertilisation. The interaction fostered by the biannual NRAC workshops has helped to facilitate solutions to the frame problem, ramification problem and other crucial issues on the research agenda. (more…)
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CFP: Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change
Posted in CFP, tagged Computation, IJCAI 13, logic, nonmonotonic reasoning, NRAC 2013, qualitifcation problem, reasoning about action on February 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
CFP: Progic 2013
Posted in CFP, tagged Computation, counterfactuals, logic, probability, Progic 2013 on December 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Call for papers
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Progic 2013: The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic
“Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems”
Workshop website: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/
Introduction
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The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (progic 2013)
continues the progic workshop series (www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/progic.htm). Progic 2013 takes place on September 17 and 18, 2013. The workshop location is the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, which is located at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. (more…)
ArguBlogging
Posted in Argumentation, Computation, Connections, tagged AIF, ARG:Dundee, ArguBlogging, argument in blogging, Argumentation, blogging, blogosphere, Computation, internet culture on April 12, 2012| 1 Comment »
The ever-industrious folks at ARG:Dundee (the group behind the popular argument diagramming software Araucaria) have a lovely new tool for keeping track of and participating in argumentation on the “blogosphere”. They call it “argublogging“. I think it’s an impressive extension of the work they’ve done on the Argument Interchcange Format, or AIF. The video below gives a demonstration of how ArguBlogging works. If you use argument diagrams in class and discuss the kinds of current events that get discussed on blogs then this program may well be your new best friend. Have a look. Try it out. Send them feedback. This is work worth supporting.
CFP: Special Issue of Argument and Computation
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, tagged argument, argumentation and healthcare, Computation on April 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Call for papers:
Argument and Computation – special issue on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare
Abstracts due May 15, 2012
Full papers due September 1, 2012.
Topics include but are not limited to computationally-oriented treatments of:
- Theories of argumentation for health system design,
- Persuasion for health-behavior change or health management,
- Negotiation with patients about treatment regimens,
- Lay-oriented justification of diagnosis or proposed medical interventions,
- Effective risk communication and meeting other patient education needs via argumentation,
- Argument source attributes, e.g., establishing credibility and trust,
- Argument medium attributes, e.g., engagement and immediacy through interaction with conversational agents or multimodal systems,
- User modeling, i.e., leveraging computational models of the message recipient’s (initial or evolving) attitudes for content selection and presentation design,
- Assistance for consumers in finding and evaluating evidence, possibly conflicting, in the medical literature or with respect to direct-to-consumer medical advertisements,
- Tools for training health professionals in argumentation theory and practice,
- Argumentation-theory based tools for training patients and consumers in critical thinking.
For more information see call for papers for special issue on
the journal’s web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tarc
Third Workshop on Complex Networks
Posted in CFP, Computation, tagged Argumentation, complex networks, complexity, Computation, third workshop on complex networks on November 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
3rd Workshop on Complex Networks
Call for Papers/Abstracts
This international workshop on complex networks (CompleNet 2012) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to computer science, from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive in many fields of science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that this workshop aims at addressing.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers/abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to): (more…)
Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers: CMNA 2011
Posted in CFP, Computation, Connections, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged ARGMAS, Argumentation, CMNA 2011, COMMA, Computation, decision systems, dialogue, models of reasoning on March 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
2011 Workshop in Computational Models of Natural Argument
The 2011 CMNA workshops will be held concurrently with the 25th AAAI Conference in San Francisco, CA, August 7-11.
Description
The series of CMNA workshops, since its inception in 2001, has been acting to nurture and provide succor to the ever growing community working in “Argument and Computation”. AI has witnessed a prodigious growth in uses of argumentation throughout many of its subdisciplines: agent system negotiation protocols that demonstrate higher levels of sophistication and robustness; argumentation-based models of evidential relations; groupwork tools that use argument to structure interaction and debate; computer-based learning tools that exploit monological and dialogical argument structures in designing pedagogic environments; decision support systems that build upon argumentation theoretic models of deliberation to better integrate with human reasoning
The CMNA workshop series has seen a notable growth in submissions, and forms a complement to more recent series or events, like the ArgMAS series, begun in 2004, and the nascent COMMA series, which held its first meeting in 2006. CMNA keeps a broader, interdisciplinary emphasis on natural (real) arguments and the computational tools and techniques for modeling, manipulating and exploiting them. (more…)
ESSLLII 2011
Posted in Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged Computation, ESSLLII, ESSLLII 2011, European Summer School in Logic, language, Language and Information, lingusitics, logic on February 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ESSLLI 2011
Meeting: 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)
Date: 01-Aug-2011 – 12-Aug-2011
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact Email: esslli2011@gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/
Early registration deadline: 31-05-2011
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*Meeting Description*
For the past 23 years, the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. During two weeks, around 50 courses and 10 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks) and four evening lectures by senior scientists in the covered areas.
In 2011, ESSLLI will held in Ljubljana, Slovenia and will be organized by the Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) and The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Chair of the Program Committee is Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), and Chair of the Organizing Committee is Darja Fišer (The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). To contact the ESSLLI 2011 Organizing Committee, write to: esslli2011@gmail.com.
*Summer School Programme*
http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?page_id=897
*Online Registration Form*
https://www.kompas-online.net/Pages/MeetingsConferences/Register/RegisterV2.aspx?form=ESSLLI2011
Call for Papers: ARGAIP 2010
Posted in CFP, tagged ARGAIP 2010, Computation on July 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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.
(more…)
Computational Models of Natural Argument
Posted in CFP, tagged AI, argument, Argumentation, Computation, dialogue, ECAI, visual argumentation on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
CMNA X
The 10th International Workshop on
Computational Models of Natural Argument
in association with ECAI 2010
16 August 2010
Lisbon, Portugal
AIMS AND SCOPE
The series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument is continuing to attract high quality submissions from researchers around the world since its inception in 2001. Like the past editions, CMNA 10 acts to nurture and provide succor to the ever growing community working on Argument and Computation, a field developed in recent years overlapping Argumentation Theory and Artificial Intelligence.
AI has witnessed a prodigious growth in uses of argumentation throughout many of its subdisciplines: agent system negotiation protocols that demonstrate higher levels of sophistication and robustness; argumentation-based models of evidential relations and legal processes that are more expressive; groupwork tools that use argument to structure interaction and debate; computer-based learning tools that exploit monological and dialogical argument structures in designing pedagogic environments; decision support systems that build upon argumentation theoretic models of deliberation to better integrate with human reasoning; and models of knowledge engineering structured around core concepts of argument to simplify knowledge elicitation and representation problems. Furthermore, benefits have not been unilateral for AI, as demonstrated by the increasing presence of AI scholars in classical argumentation theory events and journals, and AI implementations of argument finding application in both research and pedagogic practice within philosophy and argumentation theory.
The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling “natural” argumentation. Naturalness may involve, for example, the use of means which are more visual than linguistic to illustrate a point, such as graphics or multimedia; or the use of more sophisticated rhetorical devices, interacting at various layers of abstraction; or the exploitation of “extra-rational” characteristics of the audience, taking into account emotions and affective factors.
Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
- The characteristics of natural arguments: ontological aspects and cognitive issues.
- The use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory, and in particular, approaches to specific schools of thought developed in informal logic and argumentation.
- Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of argumentation.
- The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features.
- The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style.
- Persuasive discourse processing (discourse goals and structure, speaker/hearer models, content selection, etc.).
- Language dependence and multilingual approaches.
- Empirical work based on corpora looking at these topics are especially welcomed.
- Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation.
- Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments.
- Models of argumentation in multi-agent systems inspired by or based upon theories of human argument.
- Empirically driven models of argument in AI and Law.
- Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision support and advice giving).
- Issues of domain specificity, and in particular, the independence of argumentation techniques from the domain of application.
- Applications of computer supported collaborative argumentation, in realistic domains in which argument plays a key role, including pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate.
- Applications of argumentation based systems, including, for example, the pedagogical, health-related, political, and promotional.
- Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation.
- Tools for interacting with structures of argument, including visualisation tools and interfaces supporting natural, stylised or formal dialogue.
- The building of computational resources such as online corpora related to argumentation.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Workshop co-chairs:
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK
Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
This year’s programme committee is to be confirmed, but will be similar to the PC for 2009:
Leila Amgoud, IRIT, France
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Guido Boella, University of Turin, Italy
Karl Branting, The MITRE Corporation, Hanover, MD
Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chrysanne DiMarco, University of Waterloo, Canada
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Marco Guerini, FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy
Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Germany
Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK
David Moore, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Fabio Paglieri, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Vincenzo Pallotta, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Cécile Paris, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Paul Piwek, Open University, UK
Henry Prakken, Universities of Utrecht and Groningen, The Netherlands
Sara Rubinelli, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Oliviero Stock, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy
Doug Walton, University of Windsor, Ontario
Simon Wells, University of Dundee, UK
Adam Wyner, King’s College, London, UK
SUBMISSIONS
The workshop encourages submissions in three categories:
- Long papers, either reporting on completed work or offering a polemic discussion on a burning issue (up to 10 pages)
- Short papers describing work in progress (up to 5 pages)
- Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 3 pages). Authors should contact the organisers to ensure suitable equipment is available.
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style specified in the ECAI style guide (except for the number of pages) available at http://ecai2010.appia.pt/
Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system: please visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmna10
Deadline for long papers submission: 9 May 2010
Deadline for short papers submission: 6 June 2010
Notification to authors: 14 June 2010
Camera-ready version: 26 June 2010
CMNA 10: Monday 16 August 2010
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a revised version for the Routledge/Taylor & Francis journal, Argument and Computation.
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