[PlanetKR] Special Session on Argumentation-based Query Answering @ FQAS 2019 -- Amantea (Italy)

[Gerardo I. Simari]

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Special session on Argumentation-based Query Answering at
FQAS 2019 (Flexible Query Answering Systems)

Conference Site:  https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/XX9EC6XQ07tr9jl1tpTFgB?domain=fqas2019.units.it
Special Session Site: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4pfRC71RA7HA64jQFWFtPN?domain=wwwinfo.dimes.unical.it

Conference Dates: July 2-5, Amantea, Italy
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Real-world knowledge-based systems must typically deal with information
coming from different sources, which leads to uncertain content due to:
* Gaps in knowledge (incompleteness):
* Overspecification (inconsistency)
* Inherent uncertainty: for instance, in economic indices or weather
forecasts, where measurements are necessarily imprecise.

Instead of considering such uncertain knowledge useless, knowledge
engineers face the challenge of putting it to its best possible use when
solving a wide range of problems.

Argumentation is a very useful approach in this setting; essentially,
reasons for and against a specific claim are analyzed in order to decide on
an outcome. A valuable byproduct of such an analysis is that the conclusion
can be accompanied by an explanation, which can be leveraged by users to
decide if there is information that should be used differently (i.e., with
higher or lower weight, or with different probability), discarded
completely, or if there is further information that should be contemplated
(i.e., new information, or information that was previously thought to be
irrelevant).

Argumentation-based approaches are therefore ideal for flexible query
answering systems that contemplate human-in-the-loop models to tackle the
challenges of incompleteness and inconsistency in data. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Query answering under uncertainty (including incompleteness,
inconsistency, and probabilistic approaches)
* Cyber security
* Semantic Web
* Stream Reasoning
* Multi-agent systems
* Belief revision

The session is open to contributions generated by specialists in related
areas in order to promote interdisciplinary collaborations and
cross-fertilization.

INVITED SPEAKER:

Matthias Thimm (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Talk Title: Algorithmic Approaches to Computational Models of Argumentation

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Papers must be submitted through the system found at the conference site,
where the name of the session will be found. The length of the papers is up
to 12 pages including figures and references, and must follow the template
specified at the conference web page (following the LNCS/LNAI format
guidelines). See more details at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PQCXC81V97H6MD8zh2M0ew?domain=fqas2019.units.it.

Before submitting their contributions, authors are encouraged to send to
the session organizers a statement of interest including full author list,
abstract and presenting author.

Important dates (note that they are different from the general conference
dates!):
*** Paper submission deadline: May 1, 2019
* Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2019
* Camera-ready version: May 31, 2019
* Conference: July 3-5 2019

Paper Publication:

Accepted contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag LNAI series and
they will be disseminated through the Springer Digital Library Springer
Link. Papers will be also indexed by DBLP and Scopus. A selection of the
best FQAS 2019 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the
post-conference publication in several special issues of top-quality
journals.

ORGANIZERS:
* Francesco Parisi (Università della Calabria, Italy)
* Gerardo I. Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina)
Contact us at: fparisi [at] dimes [dot] unical [dot] it / gis [at] cs [dot]
uns [dot] edu [dot] ar
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