Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation Third Internatio

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015. The workshop was co-located with IJCAI 2015. The 15 revise

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Elizabeth Black Sanjay Modgil Nir Oren (Eds.)

Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation Third International Workshop, TAFA 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25–26, 2015 Revised Selected Papers

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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation Third International Workshop, TAFA 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25–26, 2015 Revised Selected Papers

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Editors Elizabeth Black King’s College London London UK

Nir Oren University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UK

Sanjay Modgil King’s College London London UK

ISSN 0302-9743 ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ISBN 978-3-319-28459-0 ISBN 978-3-319-28460-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28460-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015958911 LNCS Sublibrary: SL7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by SpringerNature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland

Preface

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of interest in formal models of argumentation and their application in diverse sub-fields and domains of the application of artificial intelligence. Specifically, formal models of argumentation have been developed for logic-based reasoning in the presence of uncertain, incomplete and inconsistent information, non-monotonic reasoning, decision making, and inter-agent communication and dialogue. Models of argumenta