[SystemSafety] CFP: 1st International Workshop on Argument and Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2013)

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1st International Workshop on Argument and Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2013)
Kanagawa, Japan
October 27-28, 2013
http://www.panda.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kido/AAA2013/

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OVERVIEW:
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Submissions are invited for the 1st International Workshop on Argument
for Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2013). The workshop will be held in

Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Kanagawa, Japan, on October 27-28,
2013, as part of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

international symposia on AI (JSAI-isAI) 2013.

Argumentation has now become an interdisciplinary challenging research
area in AI aiming at formalizing various aspects of human or/and

computer software argument in terms of computation, and applying those
knowledge to various fields. Scope of argumentation in AI includes

human arguments appeared in television, newspapers, WWW, etc. and also
artificial arguments constructed from structured knowledge with

logical language and inference rules. Results of argumentation in AI
are widely applicable to various fields such as consensus building,

agreement formation, multiagent systems, semantic web, recommendation
systems, argument mining, learning, belief revisions, chance

discovery, safety engineering, etc.

In particular, safety engineering is a research area that is
interested in the use of an evidence-based argument often called a
safety

case, assurance case or dependability case. Nowadays, it is becoming
necessary for certification bodies to issue a license to developing

and operating bodies, for system stakeholders to make agreement, for
system administrators to achieve accountability, etc. AAA 2013

contributes to deepen mutual understanding between researchers working
on argumentation theory in AI and researchers working on agreement

and assurance technologies through arguments.

AAA 2013 solicits contributions from broad range of researchers
related to argumentation in AI and especially welcomes contributions
across

argumentation and systems assurance. AAA 2013 seeks high-quality
original submission of full papers limited to 14 pages including
figures,

references, etc. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed with
double blind. Selected papers will be included in JSAI-isAI 2013

post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI published by Springer Verlag.

AIMS AND SCOPE:
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AAA 2013 aims to deepen mutual understanding between researchers
working on argumentation theory in AI and researchers working on
agreement

and assurance technologies through arguments, and to share current
limitations and problems of argumentation in AI in terms of both
theory

and practice. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

- Abstract and structured argumentation systems including studies of
frameworks, proof-theories, semantics, complexity, etc.
- Dialogue systems for persuasion, negotiation, deliberation, eristic,
information-seeking dialogues, etc.
- Applications of argumentation and dialogue systems to various fields
such as agreement technologies, systems assurance, safety

engineering, multi-agent systems, practical reasoning, belief
revision, learning, semantic web, etc.
- Agreement and assurance technologies through arguments including
safety cases, assurance cases and dependability cases, etc.
- Tools for argumentation systems, dialogue systems, argument-based
stakeholders' agreement, argument-based accountability achievement,

argument-based open systems dependability, argument-based verification
and validation, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Workshop Submission Deadline: August 10, 2013
- Workshop Author Notification: September 15, 2013
- Workshop Camera-ready: September 30, 2013
- Workshop Date: October 27-28, 2013

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
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We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication
elsewhere.

Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the
Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained from

Springer Online, and not exceed 14 pages including figures,
references, etc. If you use a word file, please follow the instruction
of the

format, and then convert it into a pdf form. Here is the submission page.

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aaa2013

If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register
the workshop and present it.

PROCEEDINGS:
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A printed volume of the proceedings will be available at the workshop.
Springer Verlag has agreed to publish selected papers of the

workshop in the JSAI-isAI 2013 post-proceedings as a volume of LNAI.
Thus, the authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to

extend their contributions, possibly incorporating the results of the
workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings,

after another round of refereeing.

VENUE:
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The workshop will be held at Raiosha Building, Keio University, Kanagawa, JAPAN.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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- Kenji Taguchi (AIST, Japan)
- Yoshiki Kinoshita (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)
- Kazuko Takahashi (Kwansei Gakuin Univ., Japan)
- Hiroyuki Kido (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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- Takashi Kitamura (AIST, Japan)
- Sarah Alice Gaggl (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
- Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
- Paolo Torroni (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
- Gabriele KernIsberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)
- Ken Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Univ., Japan)
- Toshinori Takai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Antonis Kakas (Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, UAE)
- Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes Univ., France)
- Stefan Woltran (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
- Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal Univ. of Technology, Germany)
- Martin Caminada (Univ. of Aberdeen, UK)
- Makoto Takeyama (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)
- Kenji Taguchi (AIST, Japan)
- Yoshiki Kinoshita (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)
- Kazuko Takahashi (Kwansei Univ., Japan)
- Hiroyuki Kido (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
- Shuichiro Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
- Yutaka Matsuno (The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
- Tim Kelly (Univ. of York, UK)
- John Rushby (SRI, USA)
- John Knight (Univ. of Virginia, USA)
- Ewen Denney (NASA/Ames, USA)
- Charles Weinstock (SEI, USA)
- Robin Bloomfield (City Univ. of London, UK)