ArgU 2025

First European Workshop on Argumentation and Uncertainty (ArgU'25)

Workshop colocated with ECSQARU 2025, Hagen, Germany

Formal models of argumentation are approaches that deal with the representation and interaction of arguments and counterarguments. These models can be applied in all areas that benefit from automatic decision-support such as medicine, accounting, chemistry, and law. Besides, AI systems need to handle uncertainty in many ways, for instance regarding the quality of data it uses, or the reliability of sensors, information sources, etc. Links between formal argumentation and uncertainty have been emphasized in many ways, since argumentation-based formalisms can be used to provide reasoning methods in presence of uncertainty, and they are also subject to the presence of uncertainty (for instance regarding the evolution of a debate, or the strength of arguments). This workshop aims at discussing the most recent advances in the relation between argumentation and uncertainty, notably papers focusing on:

Argumentation for dealing with uncertain information,
Argument Strength,
Uncertainty in argumentation,
Approximate algorithms for argumentation.

Papers oriented towards applications, or describing work-in-progress are welcome, since they can foster vivid discussions in the community. If the paper does not explicitly address uncertainty, it would be good to include a discussion on how it could be extended or adapted to incorporate this aspect.

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We invite papers, which have to be in English and formatted according to the CEURART style (LaTeX template available here), in the following two categories:

Full technical papers (14 pages max., including references) are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC.
Position papers (7 pages max., including references) can report on research in progress or other issues of interest to the Argumentation community. Examples of work suitable for position paper submissions include: novel ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper; important implementation techniques; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analysed; position or challenge papers.

Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=argu2025.

All papers will be subject to blind peer review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation.

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org, and will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution.

The Call for Papers is here.

We are happy to announce the keynote talk of Prof. Bart Verheij, from the University of Groningen.

Bio: Bart Verheij holds the chair of artificial intelligence and argumentation as a full professor at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on responsible artificial intelligence, exploring connections between knowledge, data, and reasoning from an argumentation perspective. He has published extensively and holds or has held leadership positions in various scientific publications and organizations, like the editorial management of the journals Argument & Computation, Artificial Intelligence and Law, and the steering committee of COMMA or the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.

First European Workshop on Argumentation and Uncertainty (ArgU'25)

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