List of my publications

List of my main publications by research topic

Abstract argumentation systems

Leila Amgoud, Srdjan Vesic. Repairing preference-based argumentation systems. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'2009, Pasadena - USA, July 2009. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Philippe Besnard. Bridging the gap between abstract argumentation systems and logic. In International Conference on Scalable Unceratinty, SUM'09, Washington - USA, September 2009. [Pdf]

Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud. Theoretical and computational properties of preference-based argumentation. In 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'08, Patras - Greece, 21 - 25 July 2008, pp. 463-467. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol, Marie-Christine Lagasquie, Pierre Livet. On bipolarity in argumentation frameworks. In International Journal Of Intelligent Systems, Wiley periodical Inc., Vol. 23, pp. 1-32, 2008. [Pdf]

Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud. Theoretical and computational properties of preference-based argumentation. In 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'08, Patras - Greece, 21 - 25 July 2008. [Pdf]

Martin Caminada, Leila Amgoud. On the evaluation of argumentation formalisms. In Artificial Intelligence Journal, V.171 (5-6), pp. 286-310, 2007. [Pdf]

Martin Caminada, Leila Amgoud. An Axiomatic Account of Formal Argumentation. In 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'2005, Pittsburgh, 09 - 13 July 2005. AAAI, p. 608-613. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol. A reasoning model based on the production of acceptable arguments. In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial, V. 34 - N. 1-3, p. 197-215, 2002. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Laurent Perrussel. Arguments and Contextual Preferences. In Computational Dialectics-Ecai workshop, CD'2000, Berlin, 22 - 22 August 2000. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons, Laurent Perrussel. An Argumentation Framework based on contextual Preferences. In International Conference on Formal and Applied and Practical Reasoning, FAPR'2000, London, January 2000, p. 59-67. [Doc]

Leila Amgoud. Using preferences to select acceptable arguments. In Proceedings of European Conference in Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'1998, Brighton, 1998. John Wiley & Sons, New-York, p. 43-44.

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol. On the acceptability of arguments in preference-based argumentation. In 14th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI'1998, Madison, Wisconsin, July1998. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco,California, p. 1-7.

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol. Integrating Preference Orderings into Argument-Based Reasoning. In 1st Int. Conf. on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, ECSQARU-FAPR'1997, June 1997. Springer Verlag, LNAI Vol. 1244, Bad Honnef, Germany, p. 159-170.

Handling inconsistency in knowledge bases - Merging conflicting bases

Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci. An argumentation framework for merging conflicting knowledge bases. In International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, V.45, pp. 321-340, 2007. [Pdf]

V. S. Subrahmanian, Leila Amgoud. A general framework for reasoning about inconsistency. In 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'2007, Hyderabad, India, 6 - 12 January 2007. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci. An argumentation framework for merging conflicting knowledge bases: The prioritized case. In 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2005, Barcelona, 06 - 08 June 2005. LNCS, p. 527-538. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol. Inferring from inconsistency in preference-based argumentation frameworks. In International Journal of Automated Reasoning, V. 29 - N. 2, p. 125-169, 2002. [.doc]

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons. An argumentation framework for merging conflicting knowledge bases. In 8th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA'02, Italie, 2002. LNCS 2424, p. 27-37. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud. An argumentation framework for handling inconsistency in knowledge bases. In MICCS'1999, Tizi-Ouzou, October 1999.

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol, Daniel Le Berre. Comparing Arguments using Preference Orderings for Argument-based Reasoning. In IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI'96, Toulouse France, 16 -19 November 1996. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, p. 400-403.

Decision making

Leila Amgoud. Argumentation for decision making. Chapter 15 of the book "Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence", G. Simari and I. Rahwan (editors), pp. 301-320, 2009.

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Using arguments for making and explaining decisions. Artificial Intelligence Journal. V.173, pp. 413-436, 2009. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Srdjan Vesic. On Revising Argumentation-Based Decision Systems. In 10th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2009, Verona - Italy, 01--03 July 2009, pp. 71-82. [Pdf]

Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud. Extending argumentation to make good decisions. In Internation Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, ADT'09, Venice - Italy, 21-23 October 2009. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Pavlos Moraitis, Yannis Dimopoulos. Making decisions through preference-based argumentation. In 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR'08, Sydney, 16 - 19 September 2008. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Explaining qualitative decision under 
uncertainty by argumentation. In 21st National Conference on 
Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'06, Boston, 16 - 20 July 
2006. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Comparing decisions in an 
argumentation-based setting. In 11th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic 
Reasoning, NMR'06, Session on "Argumentation, Dialogue, and Decision Making", 
Lake District, UK, 30 May - 01 June 2006. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. A bipolar argumentation-based decision 
framework. In 11th IPMU International Conference, Paris, 
France, 02 - 07 July 2006. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Making decisions from weighted 
arguments. In Decision theory and multi-agent planning. Giamcomo 
Della Riccia, Didier Dubois, Rodolph Kruse, Hanz-Joachim Lenz (Eds.), Springer 
Wien New York, 1-14, 2006.

Leila Amgoud. A general argumentation framework for inference and decision making.
In 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI'2005,
Edinburgh, 26 - 29 July 2005. Fahiem Bacchus, Tommi Jaakkola (Eds.),
AUAI Press, p. 26-33. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Jean-François Bonnefon, Henri Prade. An argumentation-based approach to multiple criteria decision.
In 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2005, Barcelona, 06 - 08 June 2005.
LNCS, p. 269-280. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade, Manuel Serrut. Flexible querying with argued answers. In the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE'2005, Reno, Nevada, 22 - 25 May 2005. IEEE, p. 573-578. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Using arguments for making decisions: A possibilistic logic approach.
In Procceding of the 20th Conference of Uncertainty in Artificial
Inelligence, UAI'2004, Banff, Canada, 7 - 11 July 2004. AUAI Press, p.
10-17. [Pdf]

Practical reasoning 

Leila Amgoud, Caroline Devred, Marie-Christine Lagasquie. A constrained argumentation system for practical reasoning. In 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, AAMAS'2008, Estoril - Portugal, 12 - 16 May 2008, pp. 429-436. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Formalizing practical reasoning under uncertainty: An argumentation-based approach. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'07, Silicon Valley, UAS, 02-05 November 2007. [Pdf]

Iyad Rahwan, Leila Amgoud. An Argumentation-based Approach for Practical Reasoning. In 5th 
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, 
    AAMAS'2006, Hakodate, Japan, 08 - 12 May 2006. Gerhard Weiss, Peter 
Stone (Eds.), ACM Press. P. 347-354. [Pdf]

Célia Da Costa Pereira, Leila Amgoud, Andrea Tettamanzi. Goal Revision for a Rational 
Agent. In 17th European Conference on 
Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28August - 01 September 2006. 

Leila Amgoud, Claudette Cayrol. On the use of an ATMS for handling conflicting desires.
    In the 9th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning, KR'2004, Whistler, Canada, 02 - 05 June
2004. Didier Dubois, Christopher Welty, Mry-Anne Williams (Eds.), AAAI
Press, p. 194--201. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci. On the generation of bipolar goals in argumentation-based negotiation.
In the proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Argumentation
in Multi-Agents Systems, ArgMAS'2004, New York, USA, 19 - 23 July
2004. Iyad Rahwan, Pavlos Moraitis, Chris Reed (Eds.), p. 1-12.

Leila Amgoud. A formal framework for handling conflicting desires.
In 7th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2003, Aalborg, July 2003. LNAI 2711, p. 552-563. [Ps]

Machine learning and classification

  
Leila Amgoud, Mathieu Serrurier. Agents that argue and explain classifications. In Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, Springer, Vol.16, N°2, pp.187-209, 2008. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Mathieu Serrurier. Arguing and explaining classifications. In 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, AAMAS'2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 14 - 18 May 2007. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Mathieu Serrurier. An Argumentation Framework for 
Concept Learning. In 11th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic 
Reasoning, NMR'06, Session on "Argumentation, Dialogue, and Decision Making", 
Lake District, UK, 30 May - 01 June 2006. [Pdf]

Modelling dialogs -- Agent Communication Languages

Leila Amgoud, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr. Extracting the core of a persuasion dialog to evaluate its quality. In 10th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2009, Verona - Italy, 01--03 July 2009, pp. 59-70. [Pdf]

Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud. Characterizing the outcomes of 
argumentation-based integrative negotiation. In IEEE 
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'08, Sydney, Australia, 09-12 December 
2008.

Leila Amgoud, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr. Measures for persuasion dialogs: A preliminary investigation. In 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, COMMA'08, Toulouse - France, 28 - 30 May 2008, pp. 13-24. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr. A new semantics for ACL based 
on commitments and penalties. In International Journal Of Intelligent Systems, Wiley periodical Inc., Vol. 23, N°3, pp.286-312, 2008. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Yannis Dimopolous, Pavlos Moraitis. A unified and general framework for argumentation-based negotiation. In 6th International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems,
    AAMAS'2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 14 - 18 May 2007. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr. Towards ACL semantics based 
on commitments and penalties. In 17th European Conference on 
Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28August - 01 September 2006. [Pdf] 

Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain. An argumentation-based framework for 
designing dialogue strategies. In 17th European Conference on 
Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28 August - 01 September 2006.

Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain. A formal model for designing dialogue strategies. In 5th 
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, 
    AAMAS'2006, Hakodate, Japan, 08 - 12 May 2006. Gerhard Weiss, Peter 
Stone (Eds.), ACM Press. P.414-416. 

Leila Amgoud, Sihem Belabbès, Henri Prade. A formal general setting for dialogue protocols. In 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, AIMSA'06, Varna, Bulgaria, 13 - 15 September 2006, LNCS. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain. An argumentation-based approach for 
dialogue move selection. In Third International Workshop on 
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMAS'2006, Hakodate, Japan, 
08 - 12 May 2006. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade, Sihem Belabbes. Towards a formal framework for the search of a consensus between autonomous agents.
In the proceedings of the 4th International joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'2005, Utrecht, 25 - 29
July 2005. Franck Dignum, Michael Wooldridge, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus
(Eds.), ACM Press, p. 537-543. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci. Strategical considerations for negotiating agents.
In the proceedings of the 4th International joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'2005, Utrecht, 25 - 29
July 2005. Franck Dignum, Michael Wooldridge, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus
(Eds.), ACM Press, p. 1215-1216. 

Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci. On the study of negotiation strategies.
In AAMAS 2005 Workshop on Agent Communication, AC’05, Utrecht, 25 July
2005. Rogier van Eijk, Roberto Flores , Marc-Philippe Huget (Eds.), p.
3-16. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Reaching agreement through argumentation: A possibilistic approach.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation ans Reasonning, KR'2004, Whistler, BC, Canada,
2 - 5 June 2004. D. Dubois, C. Welty, M-A. Williams (Eds.), AAAI Press,
p. 175-182. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Sihem Belabbes, Henri Prade. On the search of a consensus between autonomous agents.
In Proceedings of the International Conference in Advances in
Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications, AISTA'2004, Luxembourg,
15 - 18 November 2004.

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons, Michael Wooldridge. Properties and complexity of some formal inter-agent dialogues. In Journal of Logic and Computation, V. 13 N. 3, p. 347-376, 2003. [Pdf]

Peter Mcburney, Rogier Van Eijk, Simon Parsons, Leila Amgoud. A dialogue game protocol for agent purchase negotiations. In Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, V. 7 N. 3, p. 235-273, 2003. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons, Michael Wooldridge. On the formal outcomes of formal inter-agent dialogues.
In 2nd International joint conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent systems, AAMAS'03, Melbourne, Australie, 14 – 18 July 2003.
ACM Press, p. 616-623. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. A possibilistic logic modeling of autonomous agents negotiation.
In Proceedings of the 11th Portugese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, EPIA'2003, Beja, Portugal, 4 - 7 December 2003. F. Moura
Pires, S. Abreu (Eds.), Springer, p. 360-365.

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. A possibilistic logic modeling of autonomous agents negotiation.
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Preferences and
Decisions, Tento, Italie, 23 - 26 Septembre 2003, p. 105-112.

Leila Amgoud, Nicolas Maudet, Simon Parsons. An argumentation-based semantics for agent communication languages.
In 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'2002,
Lyon, France, 21 - 26 July 2002. Frank van Harmelen (Eds.), IOS Press,
p. 38-42. [Pdf]

Simon Parsons, Leila Amgoud, Michael Wooldridge. An analysis of formal inter-agent dialogues.
In 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent systems, AAMAS'2002, Bologna, Italy, 15 - 19 July 2002.
ACM Press, p. 394-401. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Nicolas Maudet. Strategical considerations for argumentative agents (preliminary report).
In Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR'2002, Toulouse-France, 19 - 21 April 2002, p. 399-407. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons. Agent dialogues with conflicting preferences.
In 5th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and
Languages, ATAL'2001, Seattle, WA, 1 - 3 August 2001. J. J. Meyer and
M. Tambe., Intelligent Agents VIII Springer Verlag. Lecture Notes in AI
Volume, p. 1-17. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Nicolas Maudet, Simon Parsons. Modelling dialogues using argumentation. In 4th International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, ICMAS'2000, Boston, USA, 7 - 12 July 2000. IEEE Press. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Simon Parsons, Nicolas Maudet. Arguments, dialogue, and negotiation. In 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'2000, Berlin, Germany, 20 - 25 August 2000. IOS Press, p. 338--342. [Ps]

Leila Amgoud, Nicolas Maudet. On the cooperative behavior of an argumentation based dialogue system.
In Workshop "Cooperative Models Based on Argumentation in Problem
Solving" of the 4th International Conference on the Design of
Cooperative Systems, COOP'2000, Nice, January 2000.

Modelling threats - rewards 

Leila Amgoud, Jean-François Bonnefon, Henri Prade. The logical handling of threats, rewards, tips and warnings. In 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'2007, Tunisia, 31 October - 02 November 2007. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Handling threats, rewards and explanatory arguments in a unified setting. In International Journal Of Intelligent Systems, Wiley periodical Inc., V. 20 N. 12, p. 1195-1218, 2005. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Formal handling of threats and rewards in a negotiation dialogue.
In the proceedings of the 4th International joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'2005, Utrecht, 25 - 29
July 2005. Franck Dignum, Michael Wooldridge, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus
(Eds.), ACM Press, p. 529-536. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Generation and evaluation of different types of arguments in negotiation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR'2004, Whistler, BC, Canada, 6-8 June 2004, p. 10-15.

Coalition formation

Leila Amgoud. Towards a formal model for task allocation via coalition formation.
In 4th International joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'2005, Utrecht, 25 - 29 July 2005. Franck
Dignum, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus, Munindar Singh (Eds.), ACM Press, p.
1185-1186.

Leila Amgoud. An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures.
In The second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent
Systems, ArgMAS'2005. Collocated with AAMAS'05, Utrecht, 26 July 2005.
Nicolas Maudet, Pavlos Moraitis, Simon Parsons, Iyad Rahwan (Eds.), p.
1-12. [Ps]

Procedural texts

Leila Amgoud, Farida Aouladomar, Patrick Saint-Dizier. Towards a formal argumentation-based model for procedural texts. In 6th Workshop on  Computational Models of Natural arguments, CMNA'06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28 - 29 August 2006. 

Farida Aouladomar, Leila Amgoud, Patrick Saint-Dizier. On argumentation in procedural texts. In International Symposium: Discourse and Document, ISDD'06, Caen, France 15 - 17 June 2006.

dridge, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus (Eds.), ACM Press, p. 529-536. [Pdf]

Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade. Generation and evaluation of different types of arguments in negotiation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, NMR'2004, Whistler, BC, Canada, 6-8 June 2004, p. 10-15.

Coalition formation

Leila Amgoud. Towards a formal model for task allocation via coalition formation. In 4th International joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'2005, Utrecht, 25 - 29 July 2005. Franck Dignum, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus, Munindar Singh (Eds.), ACM Press, p. 1185-1186.

Leila Amgoud. An argumentation-based model for reasoning about coalition structures. In The second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMAS'2005. Collocated with AAMAS'05, Utrecht, 26 July 2005. Nicolas Maudet, Pavlos Moraitis, Simon Parsons, Iyad Rahwan (Eds.), p. 1-12. [Ps]

Procedural texts

Leila Amgoud, Farida Aouladomar, Patrick Saint-Dizier. Towards a formal argumentation-based model for procedural texts. In 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural arguments, CMNA'06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28 - 29 August 2006.

Farida Aouladomar, Leila Amgoud, Patrick Saint-Dizier. On argumentation in procedural texts. In International Symposium: Discourse and Document, ISDD'06, Caen, France 15 - 17 June 2006.