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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">*** Updated deadlines following the rescheduling of ECAI 2020 ***<br>
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ECAI 2020 Workshop<br>
"Computational Argumentation & Cognition" (COGNITAR 2020)<br>
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WHEN: 30th August 2020<br>
WHERE: the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in<br>
Santiago de Compostela, in Spain (<a href="http://ecai2020.eu/" target="_blank">http://ecai2020.eu/</a>)<br>
SUBMISSION: by May 15th 2020 via COGNITAR 2020 Easychair<br>
(<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cognitar2020" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cognitar2020</a>)<br>
WEBSITE: <a href="http://cognition.ouc.ac.cy/cognitar/" target="_blank">http://cognition.ouc.ac.cy/cognitar/</a><br>
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==== COGNITAR: Computational Argumentation & Cognition ====<br>
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Human-centric AI requires systems that are built based on a holistic<br>
understanding of the human mind and its various faculties. In particular,<br>
we need to understand in a computational way human cognition at its<br>
many different levels. Cognition in AI systems will be important at<br>
several aspects of their design:<br>
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- Comprehending the data or information from their environment<br>
- Deciding on what actions to take or recommend to users.<br>
- Learning new knowledge pertaining to their problem domain.<br>
- Social interaction with human users and artificial agents.<br>
- Ensuring an ethical operation and general behavior.<br>
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Understanding and automating the higher-level cognition involved in<br>
carrying out the above general tasks of human behavior, requires a<br>
logical formalism that is close to human reasoning as carried out in<br>
their everyday tasks. The formalism would need a high degree of<br>
flexibility to allow dynamic changes and revision to conclusions drawn.<br>
Such a framework is that of (dialectic) argumentation as advocated<br>
by Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology for many years and newly<br>
supported by recent studies. The main premise is that argumentation<br>
is native to human reasoning and that it can provide a foundational<br>
basis for (higher-level) cognition and thus in turn for human-centric AI.<br>
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This workshop will aim to bring together researchers whose interests<br>
bridge between AI and other disciplines such as Cognitive Science,<br>
Language and Philosophy, to study how computational argumentation<br>
can form an underlying theoretical and practical basis for modeling<br>
cognition and building human-centric AI systems.<br>
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The main general questions that will concern the workshop are:<br>
- Can argumentation provide the basis for computational models of<br>
human reasoning that are cognitively adequate?<br>
- How can we form a synthesis between computational argumentation<br>
and theories of cognition that will give us models of computational<br>
cognition for the development of AI systems?<br>
<br>
We welcome position papers as well as ongoing and preliminary work<br>
on topics that bridge Cognition and Argumentation. Topics of interest<br>
include, but are not limited to:<br>
- Argumentation and language comprehension<br>
- Cognitive modeling of human reasoning<br>
- Computational argumentation in cognitive models<br>
- Social and collective argumentation<br>
- Argumentative structure of debates<br>
- Debate support via argumentation<br>
- Explainable AI and argumentation<br>
- Justification and debate of decisions via argumentation<br>
- Argumentation based persuasion<br>
- Ethical dilemmas and norms in AI systems and argumentation<br>
- Argumentation for perspicuous computing<br>
- Compliance of AI systems and argumentation<br>
- Human decision making and argumentation<br>
- Decision support systems via computational argumentation<br>
- Acquiring cognitive knowledge<br>
- Argumentation and inductive reasoning<br>
- Psychologically-guided design of the acquisition process<br>
- Argumentation languages for representing cognitive knowledge<br>
- Argumentation based architectures for cognitive systems<br>
- Real-life AI applications of argumentation<br>
- Psychological studies investigating argumentation-based reasoning<br>
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======== SUBMISSION ========<br>
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We invite proposals for contributed talks. Please submit papers,<br>
short or long, prepared for blind review.<br>
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Papers should be written using the ECAI2020 style<br>
(<a href="http://ecai2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/AuthorsPack-ECAI2020.zip" target="_blank">http://ecai2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/AuthorsPack-ECAI2020.zip</a>).<br>
Position papers are expected to be short (2-4 pages). Long<br>
submissions should not exceed 7 pages plus one for references.<br>
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Please submit via EasyChair:<br>
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cognitar2020" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cognitar2020</a><br>
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======== IMPORTANT DATES ========<br>
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May 15th 2020: Extended abstract / paper submission (via Easychair)<br>
June 15th 2020: Notification of acceptance / rejection<br>
June 30th 2020: Final article submission for online proceedings (via <br>
Easychair)<br>
August 30th 2020: COGNITAR 2020 Workshop<br>
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======== ORGANIZERS ========<br>
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Emma Dietz, TU Dresden, emmanuelle.dietz@tu-dresden.de<br>
Antonis Kakas, Univeristy of Cyprus, antonis@ucy.ac.cy<br>
Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, loizos@ouc.ac.cy<br>
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