<div dir="ltr"><b><span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> 2022<br>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</b><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cardiff, United Kingdom</b></div><div><b>Main Conference: 14th-16th September 2022</b></div><div><b>Workshop Days: 12th-13th September 2022<br><a href="https://comma22.cs.cf.ac.uk/" target="_blank">https://comma22.cs.cf.ac.uk</a></b></div><div><br>The International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (<span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span>) is a regular forum for presentation and exchange of the latest research results concerning theory and applications of computational argumentation. After the successful editions in <a href="http://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/other/comma06/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Liverpool (2006)</u></a>, <a href="http://www.irit.fr/comma08/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Toulouse (2008)</u></a>, <a href="http://www.ing.unibs.it/~comma2010/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Desenzano del Garda (2010)</u></a>, <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/comma2012/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Vienna (2012)</u></a>, <a href="http://comma2014.arg.dundee.ac.uk/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Pitlochry (2014)</u></a>, <a href="http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Potsdam (2016)</u></a>, <a href="http://comma2018.argdiap.pl/" target="_blank" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none"><u>Warsaw (2018)</u></a> and <a href="https://comma2020.dmi.unipg.it/" target="_blank">Perugia (2020)</a> the biennial <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> event will be hosted by the <a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/computer-science" target="_blank">School of Computer Science and Informatics of the Cardiff University</a>. <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> 2022 will be preceded by the fifth edition of the Summer School on Argumentation (SSA 2022). In addition to the main conference track, <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> 2022 will include system demonstrations, as well as workshops devoted to specific argumentation-related themes, for both of which we invite proposals.<div><br></div><div>We invite submission of original and unpublished work. Parallel submission to journals or other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not permitted. The conference includes a Regular Track and an Innovative Applications Track. As to the latter, we encourage the submission of original papers about innovative applications, e.g., in law, medicine, e-democracy, risk assessment, intelligent user interfaces, recommender systems, argument mining etc. Innovative applications papers will be assessed in an equally rigorous reviewing procedure as regular track papers. Reviewing is single-blinded.<br><br></div><div>The proceedings of the conference will be published by IOS Press as an open-access book. Authors should prepare their submission following the instructions given by IOS Press (<a href="http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/" target="_blank">http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/</a>). The length of each submission for both Regular and Innovative Applications papers must not exceed 12 pages. For papers submitted to the Innovative Applications Track please insert: "Submitted to IAT." at the beginning of the Latex \thanks{} footnote in the first page.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paper submission, in PDF format, is managed through EasyChair:<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comma2022" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comma2022</a><br></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">We are happy to announce that the following workshops will take place prior to the <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> 2022 conference:</span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument <a href="https://cmna-workshop.github.io/cmna22/" target="_blank">CMNA 2022</a><br>    1st International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable AI <a href="https://people.cs.umu.se/tkampik/argxai/2022.html" target="_blank">ArgXAI 2022</a><br>    1st International Workshop on Argumentation & Machine Learning <a href="https://argml22.csc.liv.ac.uk/" target="_blank">ArgML 2022</a></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    4th International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation <a href="http://safa2022.argumentationcompetition.org/" target="_blank">SAFA 2022</a><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Please consult the complete<font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"> CFP (attached).</span></font><br></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><b>Important dates: </b><br>    <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> paper submission deadline: 3rd of May 2022 (AoE)</span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    <span class="gmail-il">COMMA</span> demo extended abstract submission deadline: 3rd of May 2022 (AoE)<br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Workshop paper submission deadline: 8th of July 2022<br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><b>Invited Speakers</b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">   Prof Paul Dunne (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)</span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">   Prof Iryna Gurevich (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)<br>   Prof Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)<br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><b>Organization</b></span></font></div><br><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Program chair: </span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Conference chair: </span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Sylwia Polberg (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Local organizing committee:</span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Martin Caminada (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Richard Booth (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Hiroyuki Kido (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">    Demonstration coordinator:<br>     </span></font>    <span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit">Richard Booth (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)</span></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><b>Contact</b></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">     Any queries: <a href="mailto:comma2022@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank">comma2022@cardiff.ac.uk</a> <b><br></b>     Sylwia Polberg <a href="mailto:polbergs@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank">polbergs@cardiff.ac.uk</a></span></font></div></div></div>