Program
Invited Speakers
Marcello D’Agostino, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan Italy
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Marcello D’Agostino is currently Professor of Logic at the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy. From 1987 to 1991 he was a doctoral student at the Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford where received his Ph.D. with a thesis on the computational complexity of logical calculi. After his PhD he was employed with research positions at the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London (1991-1995), in the Logic and Computation Group directed by D.M. Gabbay. He then moved to the University of Ferrara in 1996 as assistant professor and qualified as full professor in 2001. In 2015 he moved to the University of Milan where he is now Director of the Doctoral school in Philosophy and human sciences. |
Noam Slonim, IBM Haifa Research Lab Israel
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Noam Slonim completed his PhD at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University in 2002. After a few years as an Associate Research Scholar at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, he joined IBM Research in 2007. Today, he is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM Research AI. He serves as the IBM Research technical lead of topics related to debate technologies, leading a team of more than 40 researches from several different IBM Research labs around the world. His main research interest is in developing innovative applications that can enhance, support, and engage with human debating. Correspondingly, he is actively pursuing specific research questions around that area, mainly in the context of developing advanced text analysis applications. From a theoretical perspective, his research over the years has led to the development of various Machine Learning techniques for the analysis of textual and genomic data, that often stem from Information Theoretic concepts and algorithms. Noam has recently published at ACL, EMNLP, LREC, and COLING. He has been a co-organizer of the Dagstuhl “Debating Technologies” seminar in 2015; the ACL tutorial on “NLP Approaches to Computational Argumentation”; and the Argument Mining workshop series since 2016. |
Francesca Toni, Department of Computing, Imperial College London UK
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Francesca Toni is Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK, and the funder and leader of the CLArg (Computational Logic and Argumentation) research group. Her research interests lie within the broad area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, and in particular include Argumentation, Logic-Based Multi-Agent Systems, Logic Programming for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Non-monotonic and Default Reasoning. She graduated, summa cum laude, in Computing at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1990, and received her PhD in Computing in 1995, from Imperial College London. She has coordinated two EU projects, received funding from EPSRC and the EU, and awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Leverhulme Trust. She is currently Technical Director of the ROAD2H EPSRC-funded project. She has co-chaired ICLP2015 (the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming), is currently co-chair of KR 2018 (the 16th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning). She is a member of the steering committe of AT (Agreement Technologies), the Executive Committee of the Board of ALP (the Association for Logic Programming), corner editor on Argumentation for the Journal of Logic and Computation, and in the editorial board of the Argument and Computation journal and the AI journal. |
Demo Session
A session will be organized for the demonstration of innovative working applications and tools. Demo session will take place during the first day of the conference, 12 Sept. For more information, see here.
Industry Afternoon
A session will be organized for the demonstration of industry interested in innovative argument technology. Industry afternoon will take place during the second day of the conference, 13 Sept.
Conference Schedule
The information will be available later.
Program Committee
- Leila Amgoud, IRIT – CNRS
- Ofer Arieli, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv
- Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
- Pietro Baroni, DII – University of Brescia
- Ringo Baumann, Leipzig University
- Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool
- Philippe Besnard, CNRS / IRIT
- Floris Bex, Utrecht University
- Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia
- Elizabeth Black, King’s College London
- Alexander Bochman, Holon Institute of Technology
- Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University
- Katarzyna Budzynska, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Dundee
- Elena Cabrio, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France
- Martin Caminada, Cardiff University
- Claudette Cayrol, Université Paul-Sabatier
- Federico Cerutti, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics
- Carlos Chesñevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur
- Sylvie Coste-Marquis, CRIL – CNRS
- Marcello D’Agostino, University of Milan
- Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology
- Sylvie Doutre, University of Toulouse 1 – IRIT
- Paul Dunne, University of Liverpool
- Wolfgang Dvořák, Vienna University of Technology
- Dov Gabbay, King’s College, London
- Alejandro García, Universidad Nacional del Sur
- Massimiliano Giacomin, University of Brescia
- Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA – CSIC
- Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool
- Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Davide Grossi, University of Groningen
- Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
- Anthony Hunter, University College London
- Souhila Kaci, Lirmm
- Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universität Dortmund
- Sébastien Konieczny, CRIL – CNRS
- Marie-Christine Lagasquie, IRIT – Universite Paul Sabatier
- John Lawrence, University of Dundee
- Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University
- Thomas Linsbichler, Vienna University of Technology
- Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
- Jean-Guy Mailly, LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes, France
- Pierre Marquis, CRIL, U. Artois & CNRS
- Maria Vanina Martinez, Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (CONICET – Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca)
- Nicolas Maudet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
- Peter Mcburney, King’s College London
- Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Pavlos Moraitis, LIPADE, Paris Descartes University
- Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen
- Simon Parsons, King’s College London
- Sylwia Polberg, University College London
- Henri Prade, IRIT – CNRS
- Henry Prakken, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht & Faculty of Law, University of Groningen
- Odinaldo Rodrigues, King’s College London
- Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT-CNRS
- Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University
- Francesco Santini, University of Perugia
- Giovanni Sartor, EUI/CIRSFID
- Jodi Schneider, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Claudia Schulz, TU Darmstadt
- Carles Sierra, IIIA
- Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca
- Elizabeth Sklar, King’s College London
- Mark Snaith, University of Dundee
- Manfred Stede, Univ Potsdam
- Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
- Yuqing Tang, Microsoft
- Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau
- Francesca Toni, Imperial College London
- Alice Toniolo, University of St Andrews
- Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna
- Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg
- Bart Verheij, University of Groningen
- Srdjan Vesic, CRIL, CNRS – Univ. Artois
- Serena Villata, CNRS – Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis
- Toshiko Wakaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology
- Johannes P. Wallner, Vienna University of Technology
- Emil Weydert, CSC, University of Luxembourg
- Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
- Adam Wyner, University of Aberdeen