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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>1st International Workshop on Argument for Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2013)<br> Kanagawa, Japan<br>
October 27-28, 2013<br> <a href="http://www.panda.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kido/AAA2013/" target="_blank">http://www.panda.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kido/AAA2013/</a><br> <br>
*** Extended deadline: August 24 ***<br>
<br>===============================================================<br><br>OVERVIEW:<br>----------------<br><br>Submissions
are invited for the 1st International Workshop on Argument for
Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2013). The workshop will be held in Keio
University Hiyoshi Campus, Kanagawa, Japan, on October 27-28, 2013, as
part of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence international
symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI) 2013.<br>
<br>Argumentation has now become an interdisciplinary challenging
research area in AI aiming at formalizing various aspects of human
or/and computer software argument in terms of computation, and applying
those knowledge to various fields. Scope of argumentation in AI includes
human arguments appeared in television, newspapers, WWW, etc. and also
artificial arguments constructed from structured knowledge with logical
language and inference rules. Results of argumentation in AI are widely
applicable to various fields such as consensus building, agreement
formation, multiagent systems, semantic web, recommendation systems,
argument mining, learning, belief revisions, chance discovery, safety
engineering, etc.<br>
<br>In particular, safety engineering is a research area that is
interested in the use of an evidence-based argument often called a
safety case, assurance case or dependability case. Nowadays, it is
becoming necessary for certification bodies to issue a license to
developing and operating bodies, for system stakeholders to make
agreement, for system administrators to achieve accountability, etc. AAA
2013 contributes to deepen mutual understanding between researchers
working on argumentation theory in AI and researchers working on
agreement and assurance technologies through arguments.<br>
<br>AAA 2013 solicits contributions from broad range of researchers
related to argumentation in AI and especially welcomes contributions
across argumentation and systems assurance. AAA 2013 seeks high-quality
original submission of full papers limited to 14 pages including
figures, references, etc. All submissions will be rigorously peer
reviewed with double blind. Selected papers will be included in
JSAI-isAI 2013 post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI published by
Springer Verlag.<br>
<br>AIMS AND SCOPE:<br>--------------------------<br><br>AAA 2013 aims
to deepen mutual understanding between researchers working on
argumentation theory in AI and researchers working on agreement and
assurance technologies through arguments, and to share current
limitations and problems of argumentation in AI in terms of both theory
and practice. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the
following:<br>
<br>- Abstract and structured argumentation systems including studies of frameworks, proof-theories, semantics, complexity, etc.<br>- Dialogue systems for persuasion, negotiation, deliberation, eristic, information-seeking dialogues, etc.<br>
- Applications of argumentation and dialogue systems to various fields
such as agreement technologies, systems assurance, safety engineering,
multi-agent systems, practical reasoning, belief revision, learning,
semantic web, etc.<br>
- Agreement and assurance technologies through arguments including safety cases, assurance cases and dependability cases, etc.<br>-
Tools for argumentation systems, dialogue systems, argument-based
stakeholders' agreement, argument-based accountability achievement,
argument-based open systems dependability, argument-based verification
and validation, etc.<br>
<br>IMPORTANT DATES:<br>----------------------------<br><br>- Workshop Submission Deadline: August 24, 2013 (Extended!)<br>- Workshop Author Notification: September 15, 2013<br>- Workshop Camera-ready: September 30, 2013<br>
- Workshop Date: October 27-28, 2013<br><br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:<br>------------------------------------------<br><br>We
welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers,
which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers
should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer
Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from Springer
Online, and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If
you use a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and
then convert it into a pdf form. Here is the submission page.<br>
<br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aaa2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aaa2013</a><br><br>If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register the workshop and present it.<br>
<br>PROCEEDINGS:<br>----------------------<br><br>A printed volume of
the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Springer Verlag has
agreed to publish selected papers of the workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2013
post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI. Thus, the authors of papers
presented at the workshop will be asked to extend their contributions,
possibly incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be
included in the workshop post-proceedings, after another round of
refereeing.<br>
<br>VENUE:<br>----------<br><br>The workshop will be held at Raiosha Building, Keio University, Kanagawa, JAPAN.<br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<br>--------------------------------------<br><br>- Kenji Taguchi (AIST, Japan)<br>
- Yoshiki Kinoshita (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)<br>- Kazuko Takahashi (Kwansei Gakuin Univ., Japan)<br>- Hiroyuki Kido (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)<br><br>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:<br>--------------------------------------<br><br>- Takashi Kitamura (AIST, Japan)<br>
- Sarah Alice Gaggl (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)<br>- Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)<br>- Paolo Torroni (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)<br>- Gabriele KernIsberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)<br>
- Ken Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)<br>- Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Univ., Japan)<br>- Toshinori Takai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)<br>- Antonis Kakas (Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus)<br>- Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, UAE)<br>
- Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes Univ., France)<br>- Stefan Woltran (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)<br>- Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)<br>- Juergen Dix (Clausthal Univ. of Technology, Germany)<br>
- Martin Caminada (Univ. of Aberdeen, UK)<br>- Makoto Takeyama (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)<br>- Kenji Taguchi (AIST, Japan)<br>- Yoshiki Kinoshita (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)<br>- Kazuko Takahashi (Kwansei Univ., Japan)<br>- Hiroyuki Kido (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
- Shuichiro Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ., Japan)<br>- Yutaka Matsuno (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)<br>- Tim Kelly (Univ. of York, UK)<br>- John Rushby (SRI, USA)<br>- John Knight (Univ. of Virginia, USA)<br>- Ewen Denney (NASA/Ames, USA)<br>
- Charles Weinstock (SEI, USA)<br>- Robin Bloomfield (City Univ. of London, UK)</div></div></div></div>