Call for Featured Papers on
Supporting and Explaining Decision Processes by means of Argumentation
Guest Editors:
A. Hunter, University College London
N. Maudet, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
F. Toni, Imperial College London
W. Ouerdane, LGI, CentraleSupélec, Univ. Paris Saclay
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Motivation
While systems based on complex decision-making techniques are developed and widely used in
various industrial settings, there is a pressing demand for methods that humans can understand.
Transparency alone is rarely sufficient: in order to let users inspect their rationale, recommandations
must often be at least accompanied with explanations, or even integrated in a dialectical process
allowing the discussion and revision of the recommendation, of the options at stake, sometimes even
of the model used.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), in connection with argumentation theory, has developed various techniques to handle these issues, where the purpose can be to generate qualitative explanations of
decisions based on existing quantitative models, but also to use computational models of argument
to generate the options to be considered in the decision process, to reason on the basis of pieces
of evidence either supporting or contradicting a decision, or to design interactive decision-aiding
process with argumentative features, to cite but a few.
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Contents
The Guest Editors invite papers on “Supporting and Explaining Decision Processes by means of
Argumentation” which will be published as a feature cluster in the EURO Journal on Decision
Processes. Our ambition in this special issue is to strengthen the connection and mutual awareness
between the OR and AI communities working on these issues. We invite contributions making explicit
connections or comparisons between decision-theoretic models and argumentative approaches. This
includes in particular, but not exhaustively:
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argumentation-based decision-making
explanation for multi-criteria decision-making
argument schemes for decision-making
dialectical processes for supporting decision-aiding processes
real-world applications involving argumentative features in the decision process
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Schedule
Prospective authors are invited to submit :
(1) an (optional) expression of interest, up to one page describing the envisioned submission, to be
sent by email to the guest editors [deadline: 30/11/16],
(2) a full paper to the Editorial Manager system as Original Research with a reference to this Call
for Papers (https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejdp) [deadline: 31/01/17]
The Special Issue is planned to be published in June 2017.