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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2022) that is a track of </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">**Aims and Scope**</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">of different specific techniques and the development of trustable applications.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For these reasons, over the last two decades formal argumentation has become </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">a main research topic in AI. A variety of theoretical models at different </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">levels of abstraction have been extensively studied, ranging from purely </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">abstract models to concrete implemented systems, argumentation solvers have </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">been developed to identify the justification status for arguments according </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">to different semantics, and a variety of applications of argumentation have </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">been proposed for several fields, ranging from modeling dialogues in </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">social networks to law and medicine.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">goal of the workshop, co-located with the International Conference of the </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022), is to stimulate </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers not only </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">directly involved in argumentation, but also from research fields indirectly </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">related to argumentation. In this respect, at least two directions can be envisaged:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Cross-fertilization with different fields (including non-monotonic reasoning, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">just to mention a few of them) is needed to update and extend foundations in </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Argumentation Theory, as well as tackling a number of open issues that are </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">currently debated in the area.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Interdisciplinary collaborations are necessary to foster the adoption of </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with a wide range of applications.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">In Italy, several research groups from different universities and institutions </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">have been involved in argumentation in recent years. One of the aims of the </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">foster collaboration and the development of a specific national research community.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Topics include, but are not limited to:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Explainable AI with Argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Persuasion systems</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Properties and evaluation of formal models of argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Computational properties of argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Traditional and ranking-based semantics</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Implementation of argumentation systems</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Philosophical theories of argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argument mining</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Dialogue based on argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Strategies in argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Decision making based on argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation-based negotiation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation, trust and reputation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and game theory</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and probability </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and fuzzy-logic</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and narrative</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and computational linguistics</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argumentation and human-computer interaction</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Reasoning about action and time with argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Tools for supporting argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Practical applications of formal models of argumentation</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Systems for learning through argument</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Argument-based machine learning</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The workshop invites two types of submissions:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Full papers (15 pages), possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Short papers (5 pages), which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">All papers will be peer-reviewed and final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">proceedings will be published on CEUR in the AI*IA Series (Scopus indexed). </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Submission deadline: 23 September 2022 </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">- Notification: 21 October 2022</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Roberto Confalonieri <<a href="mailto:roberto.co...@unibz.it">roberto.co...@unibz.it</a>></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Daniele Porello <<a href="mailto:daniele...@unige.it">daniele...@unige.it</a>> </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Daniele Porello,</div><div dir="ltr">Università di Genova. <br>Via Balbi 4, 16126, Genova.<br>Email: <a href="mailto:daniele.porello@unige.it" target="_blank">daniele.porello@unige.it</a><br>Home page: <a href="http://www.danieleporello.net" target="_blank">www.danieleporello.net</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>