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2nd International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence</a> (ArgXAI) to be held on 16 September 2024, at the
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International Conference on Computational Models of Argument</a> (COMMA 2024) in Hagen, Germany.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the fields of computational argumentation
and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Workshop: 16 September 2024</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We welcome:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions must be up to 12 pages in PDF format, including abstracts, figures and references,
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CEUR-WS template</a>. The reviewing will be single-blind. All submissions will be made electronically, through the EasyChair conference system at
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argxai24</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Accepted papers will be included in CEUR-WS proceedings after a careful review process, likely
before the workshop date. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the COMMA conference to present the paper in order for it to be included in the workshop proceedings.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We specifically seek contributions that present formal work on argumentative explainability,
as well as argumentative approaches that explain the behaviour of intelligent systems (argumentation for XAI). Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Argumentative Explainability</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Defeasible reasoning and explanations</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Computational properties of explanations</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Neuro-symbolic explainable argumentation</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Explanation as a form of argumentation or defeasible reasoning</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Human intelligibility of formal argumentation</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dialectical, dialogical and conversational explanations</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AI methods to support argumentative explainability</span></div>
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machine reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing) and overlapping fields of research (e.g. optimisation, human-computer interaction, philosophy and social sciences)</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kristijonas Cyras, Ericsson Research</span></div>
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