[agents] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Argumentation and Logic Programming of Fundamenta Informaticae

[Juan Carlos Nieves]

Dear all,

We invite you to submit a paper to a Special issue on Argumentation and 
Logic Programming of Fundamenta Informaticae.

The paper submission deadline is December 11th, 2015.

Kind Regards,

Juan Carlos Nieves


[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]


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Call for Papers:
Special issue on Argumentation and Logic Programming
of Fundamenta Informaticae 
(http://www.iospress.nl/journal/fundamenta-informaticae/)

https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Sarah_Alice_Gaggl/Special_Issue_ArgLP

The first ArgLP workshop was held on the 31st of August 2015, in Cork, 
Ireland as part of the International Conference on Logic Programming 
(ICLP 2015).

Additional contributions to the special issue on all topics of the 
workshop are sought.

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MOTIVATION
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Argumentation has been more and more an active research field in areas 
as Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Law, etc. From the computational 
point of view, logic programming has been influencing fundamental roots 
of argumentation.  Indeed, since Dung formalized a family of 
argumentation inferences in terms of the so called argumentation 
semantics, he showed that these argumentation semantics have strong 
roots in logic-based theories.

The relationship between logic programming and argumentation has 
attracted increased attention in the last years. Studies range from 
translating one into the other and back, using argumentation to explain 
logic programming models, and using logic programming systems to 
implement argumentation-based languages (ASPARTIX, DIAMOND). Influences 
go both ways and we believe that both fields can benefit from learning 
from each other.

This year the presentation of the results of the First International 
Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA) has been 
done at TAFA 2015 (co-located with IJCAI 2015). Since some of the most 
widely known argumentation solvers are based on logic programming 
methodologies, e.g., ASPARTIX, it is expected that new developments 
based on logic programming will appear. In this setting, this special 
issue of ArgLP is aiming at catching the attention of the logic 
programming community to increase the influence of logic programming in 
the new theoretical and practical developments of argumentation.

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TOPICS
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- New developments of argumentation systems based on logic programming
- New studies between argumentation semantics and logic programming 
semantics
- New studies of non-monotonic reasoning properties of argumentation 
semantics
- The relationship of defeasible logic programming and argumentation
- Studying the relationship between logic programs and various 
argumentation formalisms (e.g. Dung frameworks, extended AFs, bipolar 
AFs, value-based AFs, abstract dialectical frameworks, etc.)
- Argumentation and commonsense reasoning
- Argumentation theories and logical foundations
- Argumentation for reasoning in multi-agent systems
- Argumentation dialogues in multi-agent systems
- Applications related to argumentation and logic programming


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for submissions:     11 December 2015
First review decision:        11 March 2016
Submission of revised papers:    11 April 2016

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PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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All papers must present original and innovative work. Papers will be 
evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical 
content and relevance to the special issue.

Papers must not exceed 25 pages in length and should be formatted using 
the guidelines of Fundamenta Informaticae:

http://fi.mimuw.edu.pl/fundam.zip

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the FI 
on-line system: 
http://fi.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php/FI/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

In the FI on-line system, the authors have to select the “Special 
Issues” section and typing “Argumentation and Logic Programming - ArgLP” 
in Comments for the editor.


All final versions of the accepted papers should be in LaTeX.

If you intend to submit a paper for this special issue, please declare 
your interest by sending a mail to one of the guest editors.

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GUEST EDITORS
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Sarah Gaggl, TU Dresden, Germany, sarah.gaggl at tu-dresden.de
Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany, strass at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Juan Carlos Nieves, Umeå University, Sweden, jcnieves at cs.umu.se
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy, paolo.torroni at unibo.it