Programme


Wednesday 8 September

08:00 - 08:45 Registration
08:45 - 09:00 Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk
Chair: Paul Dunne

Douglas Walton: Types of Dialogue and Burdens of Proof pdf

10:00 - 11:05 Session: Argumentation and defeasible logic
Chair: Francesca Toni
  • Anthony Hunter: Base Logics in Argumentation pdf
  • Teresa Alsinet, Ramon Béjar, Lluis Godo: A characterization of collective conflict for defeasible argumentation pdf
  • Bart Verheij: Argumentation and rules with exceptions pdf
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
11:30 - 13:10 Session: Computational issues in argumentation
Chair: Antony Hunter
  • Wolfgang Dvorak*, Stefan Szeider, Stefan Woltran: Reasoning in Argumentation Frameworks of Bounded Clique-Width pdf
  • Paul Dunne: Tractability in Value-based Argumentation pdf
  • Eun Jung Kim, Sebastian Ordyniak, Stefan Szeider: Algorithms and Complexity Results for Persuasive Argumentation
  • Paul Dunne, Diego Martinez, Alejandro Garcia, Guillermo Simari: Computation with varied-strength attacks in abstract argumentation frameworks pdf
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Session: Dynamics in argumentation
Chair: Leon van der Torre
  • Ringo Baumann*, Gerhard Brewka: Expanding Argumentation Frameworks: Enforcing and Monotonicity Results pdf
  • Fahd Saud Nawwab*, Paul E. Dunne, Trevor Bench-Capon: Exploring the Role of Emotions in Rational Decision Making pdf
  • Nicolás Rotstein, Martin Moguillansky, Alejandro García, Guillermo Simari: A Dynamic Argumentation Framework pdf
  • Martin Moguillansky, Nicolás Rotstein, Marcelo A. Falappa, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo Simari: Argument Theory Change Through Defeater Activation pdf
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
16:30 - 18:10 Session: Argumentation semantics
Chair: Gerard Vreeswijk
  • Sarah Gaggl*, Stefan Woltran: CF2 Semantics Revisited pdf
  • Mauricio Osorio, Juan Carlos Nieves, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià: CF2-extensions as Answer-set Models pdf
  • Martin Caminada: An Algorithm for Stage Semantics pdf
  • Matthias Grabmair*, Thomas F. Gordon, Douglas Walton: Probabilistic Semantics for the Carneades Argument Model Using Bayesian Belief Networks

Welcome Cocktail (kindly offered by Taylor & Francis) at Villa Brunati



Thursday 9 September

09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk
Chair: Guillermo Simari

Gerhard Brewka: Abstract Dialectical Frameworks

10:00 - 11:05 Session: Languages and architectures
Chair: Iyad Rahwan
  • Floris Bex, Henry Prakken, Chris Reed: A formal analysis of the AIF in terms of the ASPIC framework
  • Simon Buckingham Shum, Maarten Sierhuis, Jack Park, Matthew Brown: Software Agents in Support of Human Argument Mapping
  • Mark Snaith*, Joseph Devereux, John Lawrence, Chris Reed: Pipelining Argumentation Technologies
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
11:30 - 13:10 Session: Argumentation and preferences
Chair: Chris Reed
  • Souhila Kaci: Refined Preference-based Argumentation Frameworks
  • Leila Amgoud, Srdjan Vesic*: Generalizing stable semantics by preference pdf
  • Sanjay Modgil, Henry Prakken: Reasoning about Preferences in Structured Extended Argumentation Frameworks pdf
  • Sanjay Modgil, Trevor Bench-Capon: Integrating Dialectical and Accrual Modes of Argumentation pdf
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:25 Session: Dialogues and agent systems
Chair: Henry Prakken
  • Xiuyi Fan*, Francesca Toni, Adil Hussain: Two-Agent Conflict Resolution with Assumption-Based Argumentation pdf
  • Andrew Kuipers*, Jörg Denzinger: Pitfalls in Practical Open Multi Agent Argumentation Systems: Malicious Argumentation
  • Stefan Ballnat*, Thomas F. Gordon: Goal Selection in Argumentation Processes - A Formal Model of Abduction in Argument Evaluation Structures
  • Katarzyna Budzynska: Argument Analysis: Components of Interpersonal Argumentation
  • Stella Heras, Katie Atkinson, Vicente Botti, Floriana Grasso, Vicente Julian, Peter McBurney: How Argumentation can Enhance Dialogues in Social Networks pdf
16:25 - 17:00 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
17:00 - 18:30 Software demo session

Social Dinner with prizegiving for the best paper co-authored by a student (sponsored by Taylor & Francis) at Cascina Capuzza



Friday 10 September

09:00 - 10:55 Session: Practical applications
Chair: Tom Gordon
  • Phan Minh Dung, Francesca Toni, Paolo Mancarella: Some design guidelines for practical argumentation systems
  • Anthony Hunter, Matthew Williams: Qualitative Evidence Aggregation using Argumentation
  • Phan Minh Dung, Phan Minh Thang: Towards (Probabilistic) Argumentation for Jury-based Dispute Resolution
  • Christoph Beierle, Bernhard Freund, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Matthias Thimm: Using Defeasible Logic Programming for Argumentation-Based Decision Support in Private Law
  • Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, Tudor Groza, John Breslin: Argumentation 3.0: how Semantic Web technologies can improve argumentation modeling in Web 2.0 environments
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
11:30 - 13:10 Session: Dialectical issues in argumentation
Chair: Guido Boella
  • Chris Reed, Simon Wells, Katarzyna Budzynska, Joseph Devereux: Building arguments with argumentation: the role of illocutionary force in computational models of argument pdf
  • Maya Wardeh, Trevor Bench-Capon, Frans Coenen: Arguing in Groups
  • Caroline Devred, Sylvie Doutre, Claire Lefèvre, Pascal Nicolas: Dialectical Proofs for Constrained Argumentation pdf
  • Gerard Vreeswijk: Lower Bounds on Argument Verification in Computational Dialectic pdf
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:10 Session: Abstract argumentation frameworks
Chair: Sanjay Modgil
  • Shengying Pan, Kate Larson, Iyad Rahwan: Argumentation Mechanism Design for Preferred Semantics
  • Guido Boella, Dov Gabbay, Leon van der Torre, Serena Villata: Support in Abstract Argumentation pdf
  • Nir Oren, Chris Reed, Michael Luck: Moving Between Argumentation Frameworks pdf
  • Pietro Baroni, Paul E. Dunne, Massimiliano Giacomin: On Extension Counting Problems in Argumentation Frameworks pdf
16:10 - 16:20 Main conference close
16:20 - 17:00 Coffee break (kindly offered by the Municipality of Desenzano del Garda)
17:00 - 19:00 Panel Session "Uses of argumentation in agreement technologies" organized by WG4 of the COST action on agreement technologies


* Student applicant for the best paper award

 
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