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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see below the first CFP for TAFA'19. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested in submitting a paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Liz, Sanjay and Nir<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2019)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tafa-workshop.org/tafa-19">http://tafa-workshop.org/tafa-19</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">**** Submission Deadline: May 2, 2019 ****<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">============<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Fifth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2019) will be co-located with IJCAI 2019 in Macau, and builds on the success of the previous four 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 2019 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).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TAFA 2019 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will solicit papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Properties of formal models of argumentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Argument Mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Argumentation based Models of Dialogue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Practical applications of formal models of argumentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Evaluation of formal models of argumentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">System Track<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year, TAFA-19 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 (http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/iccma17/) participants. The Third International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA) will be co-located with TAFA-19.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As in previous editions of TAFA, we expect selected papers will be published in LNAI post-proceedings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission to the workshop will take place via the EasyChair system, and will be anonymously reviewed. Contributors must submit papers (no longer than 15 pages) in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions for the systems track should be no longer than 5 pages, 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></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Formatting instructions, as well as the style and sample files can be found here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• May 3, 2019 - Paper Submission Deadline<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• May 27, 2019 - Paper Review Deadline<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• June 04, 2019 - Notification of Acceptance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• June 24, 2019 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• August 11-12, 2019 – Workshop (precise date to be decided)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Organising Committee (Co-chairs)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Elizabeth Black<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Department of Informatics,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> King’s College London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> elizabeth.black [at] kcl.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Sanjay Modgil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Department of Informatics,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> King’s College London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> sanjay.modgil [at] kcl.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Nir Oren<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Department of Computer Science,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> University of Aberdeen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> n.oren [at] abdn.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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