These proceedings of the September 2006 conference include 28 papers presented, Topics include argument in agent systems, including building agents that plan and argue in a social context, applications, including argument-based machine learning in a medical domain, computational properties of argument, including complexity properties of restricted abstract argument systems, argumentation frameworks and themes, including evaluation and comparison criteria for extension-based argumentation, argumentation tools, including a new way to translate Wigmore diagrams, reasoning about action, including knowing when to bargain, and dialogues and decisions, including holding suspicion of a hidden agenda in persuasive argument. The editors include an author index and each article includes references. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
"Argumentation has evolved from its original study primarily by philosophers to emerge in the last ten years as an important sub-discipline of Artificial Intelligence. There have been significant contributions resulting from this, including approaches to modelling and analysis of defeasible reasoning, formal bases for negotiation and dialogue processes in multiagent systems, and the use of argumentation theory in AI applications whose nature is not best described through traditional logics, e.g. legal reasoning, evaluation of conflicting beliefs, etc. The process of interpreting and exploiting classical treatments of Argumentation Theory in effective computational terms has led to a rich interchange of ideas among researchers from disciplines such as Philosophy, Linguistics, AI and Economics. While work over recent years has done much to consolidate diverse contributions to the field, many new concerns have been identified and form the basis of current research. The papers in this volume, presented as part of the 1st International Conference on Computational Model of Arguments (COMMA) in September 2006, give a valuable overview of on-going research issues and concerns within this field."
