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\author{April 10-12, 2018, Toulouse, France}
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\section*{Foreword}

Dear Colleagues,\\ \\

It's our great privilege and honour to welcome you all for the the Workshop ``AMANDE - Argument Strength 2018''...\\ \\

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Sincerely yours,\\


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\subsection*{AMANDE - Argument Strength 2018}

After the successful edition of the Workshop on Argument strength which was held in Bochum in 2016, a second edition is organised in April 2018 in Toulouse.
The strength of an argument depends on many parameters (e.g. the plausibility of its premises, the nature of the link between the premises and the conclusion, or the relations between this argument and the other ones). This workshop aims at gathering experts on argumentation from different fields (artificial intelligence, logic, philosophy,...) to discuss the questions related to the strength of arguments. Such questions include (but are not limited to)

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\item Which factors influence the strength of an argument?
\item What are the pros and cons of different formal representations of argument strength?
\item How to formally model qualifiers on the conclusions of arguments?
\item How does argument strength propagate when inferences are chained?
\item How do arguments accrue?
\item Can weaker arguments defeat and/or defend stronger arguments?
\item When do more specific arguments defeat more general arguments and vice versa?
\item How do formal and informal approaches to argument strength relate?
\item How do preferences assigned to premises influence the evaluation of arguments?
\end{itemize}
This edition of Argument Strength will be joint with a one-day workshop linked to the research themes of the French project AMANDE, that include alternative semantics for argumentation (in particular ranking semantics), dynamics of argumentation frameworks, decentralised protocols for argumentation and strategical aspects of argumentation and deliberation.




\section*{Program}

April 10th will be devoted to the AMANDE day; April 11th and 12th will be devoted to Argument Strength workshop.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
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\item For AMANDE Day 
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\item Nicolas Maudet (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
\item Stefan Woltran (Technische Universit\"at Wien)
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\item For Argument Strength 
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\item Leila Amgoud (CNRS)
\item Pietro Baroni (Università degli Studi di Brescia)
\item Anthony Hunter (University College London)
\item Paul Dunne (University of Liverpool)
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\end{itemize}

\section*{Organizing committee}


Leila Amgoud

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Sylvie Doutre

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Patricia Everaere

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Jean-Guy Mailly

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Stefano Moretti

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Gabriella Pigozzi

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Srdjan Vesic
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