Sin ce the work of John Pollock, Ronald Loui and other s in the eighties, argumentation has proven to be successful in nonmonotonic logic. In the early nin eties Dung and others showed that argumentation is also very suitable as a general framework for rel ating different nonmonotonic logics. Finally, in r ecent years argument-based logics have been used t o facilitate reasoning and communication in multi- agent systems.
\nArgumentation can b e studied on its own, but it also has interesting relations with other topics, such as dialogue and decision. For instance, argumentation is an essent ial component of such phenomena as fact finding in vestigations, computer supported collaborative wor k, negotiation, legal procedure, and online disput e mediation. However, only recently researchers ha ve begun to explore the use of argumentation in th ese contexts.
\n \n \n < p>For more information, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/NM R2010/NMR_2010/Argument,_Dialog_and_Decision.html< /a>.\nWe invite su bmissions of original research on all topics relat ed to the logical study of argumentation and its c onnections with decision and dialogue, in particul ar the study of argument-based logics and the deve lopment of argument-based logical systems in forma l models of multi-agent reasoning and interaction. \n Deadline for submission of papers: Janua ry 29 (Friday), 2010
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