Arguing Agents in Dubai

This week sees the first residential graduate school on multi-agent system technology to be hosted in the Middle East: the IFAAMAS-sponsored Dubai Agents and Multi Agent Systems School (DAMAS). Iyad Rahwan, who runs the agents research group there, invited Chris to deliver a part of the course on argumentation in multi-agent systems. He’ll be giving a historical summary combined with introductions to both formal and informal approaches to argumentation, and then a detailed exploration of argumentation games in agent settings, all liberally sprinkled with practical exercises. The aim is to rapidly bring students up to speed with the key features of ArgMAS research from the last decade.