Tim Norman: Argument in Human-Agent Teams 2/2
Channel: International Center for Formal Ontology
Date: 2019-05-13

3rd Summer School on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives (http://ssa2018.argdiap.pl/), 6th - 10th September 2018, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

Tim Norman is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group at the University of Southampton (UK). He read Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University of Wales, Swansea, then graduated in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London in the area of AI planning and scheduling. In 2000 he organised (with Chris Reed) the Symposium on Argument and Computation in Pitlochry, Perthshire, which brought together experts from across philosophy, law, logic, linguistics and computer science to explore and develop interdisciplinary research across these fields, and made some small contribution to the establishment of the COMMA series of conferences and the Argument and Computation Journal. His research interests in this area include the formal characterisation of imperatives, communicative norms, and models of deliberative dialogue. More recently he has been working with professional analysts to explore how representations of defeasible inference and the use of automated reasoning methods can support analyst teams where judgements entail a high risk of error in decision making. One important aim of this work is to develop community-driven open-source tools for the use of argumentation in real-world applications; see www.cispaces.org.

A key aim underpinning the development of computational models of argument is to build systems that are effective in support of human interaction and decision-making. Achieving this certainly depends upon an understanding of how people argue and how computational models reflect good argumentative reasoning. Equally, however, we must understand how tools based on these insights have impact on individual and group behaviour. In this tutorial, I will explore the potential for argumentation-based models in support of human-agent teams. Support both for dialogue and for reasoning will be considered, and we will have a hands-on session with a tool developed for intelligence analysis (CISpaces).

Organizers of 3rd SSA:
- International Center for Formal Ontology, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology (http://icfo.ans.pw.edu.pl/),
- Bialystok University of Technology (http://pb.edu.pl/en/),
- Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw (http://www.philosophy.uw.edu.pl/?page_id=74),
- Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw (https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/),
- Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (http://www.gssr.edu.pl/),
- ArgDiaP (http://argdiap.pl/).