NMR06

Eleventh International Workshop on

Non-Monotonic Reasoning

Lake District, England, May 30 - June 1, 2006


Special session on

Argument, Dialogue and Decision



Argumentation has been a popular approach to nonmonotonic logic since the work of John Pollock, Ronald Loui and others in the eighties, who showed that argumentation is a very natural way of conceptualising nonmonotonic reasoning. In the early nineties Dung and others showed that argumentation is also very suitable as a general framework for relating nonmonotonic logics of different styles. Finally, in recent years argument-based logics have been used to formalise informal theories of argumentation.

Argumentation can be studied on its own, but it also has interesting relations with other topics, such as dialogue and decision. For instance, argumentation is an essential component of such phenomena as fact finding investigations, negotiation, legal procedure and online dispute mediation. However, only recently researchers have begun to explore the use of argumentation in these contexts.

Topics

This workshop aims to bring these researchers together, to promote the logical study of argumentation and its connections with decision and dialogue. In particular, we invite submissions of original research on the following topics.
  • The study of argument-based logics including
  • semantics
  • proof theory
  • complexity and resource limitations
  • applications to epistemic and practical reasoning
  • applications to informal theories of argumentation
  • comparison with other types of nonmonotonic logic
  • The development of argument-based logical systems in formal models of multiagent interaction, such as
  • fact finding investigations
  • negotiation
  • legal procedure
  • dispute resolution and mediation
  • decision making
  • Session co-chairs

  • Leila Amgoud, Université Paul Sabatier, France, amgoud@irit.fr
  • Guillermo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, grs@cs.uns.edu.ar
  • Program committee

  • Philippe Besnard, Université Paul Sabatier, France, besnard@irit.fr
  • Carlos I. Chesnevar, Universitat de Lleida, Spain, cic@eps.udl.es
  • Phan Minh Dung, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, dung@cs.ait.ac.th
  • Thomas F. Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, Thomas.Gordon@fokus.fraunhofer.de
  • Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK, p.j.mcburney@csc.liv.ac.uk
  • Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College CUNY, USA, parsons@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
  • Henry Prakken, Utrecht University and University of Groningen, The Netherlands, henry@cs.uu.nl
  • Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai, UAE; University of Edinburgh, UK, irahwan@acm.org
  • Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK, ft@doc.ic.ac.uk
  • Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, b.verheij@ai.rug.nl
  • Gerard Vreeswijk, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, gv@cs.uu.nl
  • Submission details

    All NMR-06 sessions have the same submission requirements. Submissions are limited to 9 pages using KR paper format. Send a PDF file with the submission to each of the organizers by e-mail.

    Important dates

  • Submission of papers: 17 Feb 2006
  • Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2006
  • Final version (PDF File): 1 May 2006