Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop,

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4049

Simon Parsons Nicolas Maudet Pavlos Moraitis Iyad Rahwan (Eds.)

Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Simon Parsons Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Department of Computer and Information Science Brooklyn NY 11210, USA E-mail: [email protected] Nicolas Maudet LAMSADE, Université Paris IX-Dauphine 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France E-mail: [email protected] Pavlos Moraitis Université René Descartes Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Iyad Rahwan The British University in Dubai, Institute of Informatics P.O. Box 502216, Dubai, UAE E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006928861 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, H.5.2-3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume is based on the Second Workshop on Argumentation in Multiagent Systems (Argmas). The workshop was held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (aamas), at the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005. The workshop itself took place on July 26. We are happy to report that the second workshop was just as popular and successful as its predecessor, held the previous summer in New York. We received 17 submissions, each of which was reviewed by at least three experts in the field, and ten of these papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. Once again the workshop was graced by an invited lecture, this time by Frans van Eemeren of the University of Amsterdam, who talked on the subject of pragmadialectics. The workshop attracted 31 participants, ensuring ma