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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Fourth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2017) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">**** Submission Deadline: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: NimbusRomNo9L-Regu;">May
19, 2017 </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">****<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Fourth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2017) will be co-located
with IJCAI 2017 in Melbourne, Australia, and builds on the success of the previous three iterations of the workshop. The workshop is inspired by the rapid growth of interest in formal models of argumentation and their application in diverse sub-fields and
domains of application of Artificial Intelligence. TAFA 2017 aims to further foster uptake of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with wide ranging application by providing a forum for further development of existing ideas and for the initiation of new and
innovative collaborations. This year, TAFA will also include a systems track (see details below).<br class="">
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TAFA 2017 encourages submission of papers on formal theoretical models of argumentation and their application in (sub-fields of) AI, and on the evaluation of models of argumentation, both theoretical (in terms of formal properties) and practical (in concretely
developed applications). We particularly encourage work on theories and applications developed through inter-disciplinary collaborations. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The workshop will solicit papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Properties of formal models of argumentation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Practical applications of formal models of argumentation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Evaluation of formal models of argumentation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This year, TAFA-17 also includes a system track.in order to provide a forum for presenting and discussing argumentation
solvers, algorithms, implementation details and empirical evaluations. The track is particularly suited for, but not limited to, ICCMA (</span><a href="http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)
participants. The Second International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA) will be co-located with TAFA-17.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">As in previous editions of TAFA, selected papers will be published in a LNAI post-proceedings.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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Submission to the workshop will take place via the EasyChair system, and will be anonymously reviewed. Contributors must submit papers (<b class="">no longer than 15 pages</b>) in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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be <b class="">no longer than 5 pages</b>, and should describe an implemented system. Papers describing systems that have already been published before will be considered only if significant and clear enhancements to the system are reported.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">May 19, 2017 - Paper Submission Deadline<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">June 5, 2017 - Paper Review Deadline<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">June 12, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">July 10, 2017 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">August 19-25, 2017 – Workshop (precise date to be decided)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul>
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* Elizabeth Black<br class="">
Department of Informatics,<br class="">
King’s College London<br class="">
elizabeth.black [at] </span><a href="http://kcl.ac.uk/" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">kcl.ac.uk</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br class="">
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* Sanjay Modgil<br class="">
Department of Informatics,<br class="">
King’s College London<br class="">
sanjay.modgil [at] </span><a href="http://kcl.ac.uk/" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">kcl.ac.uk</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br class="">
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* Nir Oren<br class="">
Department of Computer Science,<br class="">
University of Aberdeen<br class="">
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