Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems First International Workshop, A
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Iyad Rahwan Pavlos Moraitis Chris Reed (Eds.)
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems First International Workshop, ArgMAS 2004 New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 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 Iyad Rahwan The British University in Dubai, Institute of Informatics P.O. Box 502216, Dubai, United Arab Emirates E-mail: [email protected] University of Melbourne, Dept. of Information Systems E-mail: [email protected] Pavlos Moraitis University of Cyprus, Dept. of Computer Science 75 Kallipoleos Str., 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus E-mail: [email protected] Chris Reed University of Dundee, Division of Applied Computing Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004118426
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Preface
The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, linguistics, and psychology (at least). Its techniques and results have found a wide range of applications in both theoretical and practical branches of artificial intelligence and computer science. Several theories of argumentation with various semantics have been proposed in the literature. Multi-agent systems theory has picked up argument-inspired approaches and specifically argumentation-theoretic results from many different areas. The community of researchers in argumentation and multi-agent systems is currently presented with a unique opportunity to integrate the various understandings of argument into a coherent and core part of the functioning of autonomous computational systems. The benefits range from extended semantics of arguments construed as relationships between epistemic atoms, through conversation protocols for argumentation with serendipitous information exchange, to models of dialectical practical reasoning, both intra- and inter-agent (and
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