Bart Verheij
Argumenten voor goede kunstmatige intelligentie (Arguments for good artificial intelligence)
as chair of artificial intelligence and argumentation
Artificial Intelligence as Law
as president of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
Community Journal Argument and Computation - COMMA conference series - Handbook chapter
Research Argumentation logic - Argumentation software - Argumentation schemes
Teaching Knowledge and Agent Technology - Arguing Agents - Argumentation and Artificial Intelligence
Community Journal Artificial intelligence & Law - JURIX conference series - ICAIL conference series
Research Arguments, rules and cases - Evidential reasoning - Rules & principles
Teaching Knowledge and Agent Technology - Arguing Agents - How the law is changing artificial intelligence
Community Handbook chapter - Workshop evidence and decision making - Research program forensic science and statistics - Symposium Trial with and without Mathematics
Research Forensic science research project - Combining arguments, scenarios and probabilities - Evidential reasoning and Bayesian networks
Teaching Combining arguments, scenarios and probabilities for evidential reasoning
Community Workshop Artificial Intelligence for Justice (AI4J) - Lorentz center workshop Normware - Workshop evidence and decision making
Research Value-guided argumentation - Arguments for ethical systems design - Arguments about values
Research Argumentation logic (qualitative and quantitative) - Proof with and without probabilities - Explaining Bayesian networks with scenarios - Designing Bayesian networks with scenarios - Extracting arguments from Bayesian networks
Teaching Combining arguments, scenarios and probabilities
Research Negotiation and theory of mind - Simulating higher-order theory of mind - Agents adopting agriculture
Teaching Knowledge and Agent Technology - Arguing Agents - Design of Multi-Agent Systems
People perform miracles on a routine basis. Apparently performing miracles is not that hard.
News
Stanford CodeX FutureLaw conference (2024)
Hybrid Law and the Neuro-Symbolic Bridge, panel member
On Wednesday March 13, 2024, we are organizing two lectures on Correct Reasoning in Data-driven Artificial Intelligence. One is by Peter Bloem (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), the other by Huiyuan Lai (University of Groningen). Location: House of Connections in Groningen (Grote Markt 21). You are welcome to join us. (Coorganized with Balder Ten Cate and Jelle Zuidema).
Farewell symposium and valedictory speech Lambert Schomaker (2024)
On March 8, 2024, Lambert Schomaker delivers his valedictory speech, and before there is a symposium with various speakers.
Contribution to liber amicorum Lambert Schomaker (2024) (2024)
Who shoves whom around inside a thinking self? Or: What is the meaning of symbols?
The University of Groningen mathematics department publishes a newsletter for alumni, `Bernoulli Gazet'. The current edition contains some reflection on mathematics, AI and strange loops, in Dutch `Wiskunde, kunstmatige intelligentie en vreemde lussen'.
Dissertation defence with workshop (2024)
On Monday February 12, 2024 (11:00), Heng Zheng defends his dissertation `Arguments, Cases and Their Hardness. A formal theory with case studies in AI and Law' in the aula of the University of Groningen (in the academy building). And after that a workshop in celebration (14:00-17:00). You are welcome to join us.
Special interest group Ethics (2024)
In the Special interest group on Ethics of the Hybrid intelligence project, Ludi van Leeuwen presented her JURIX 2023 paper, and we presented the workshop on law, AI & philosophy we coorganized there (with Jaap Hage and Antonia Waltermann).
On January 29, 2023, SaAI (Society & AI Groningen) organized a panel discussion `Are GPT-4 & friends too big? Reflecting on 3 years of “stochastic parrots”' (moderated by Marije Miedema and with Aurelie Herbelot, Gabriele Sarti, Ana Guerberof Arenas).
Come to the University of Groningen and work with us on the future of AI! We have four vacancies for assistant, associate and full professors in AI (3x tenure track assistant professor, 1x associate/full professor). We are recruiting in a broad range of topics (Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition, Responsible & Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI). Please apply by Friday, January 11th, 2024.
PhD position in Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics for Cognitive Devices. Focus: AI methods for the alignment of learning and reasoning. Supervisors: Marco Grzegorczyk, Bart Verheij (application deadline: January 15, 2024)
Article about the NWO Gravitation Hybrid Intelligence project (2023)
Bennie Mols interviewed Hayley Hung and me om the Hybrid Intelligence project for the IPN I/O Magazine: Marrying the hardness of machines with the softness of people (p. 4-7)
JURIX conference papers (2023)
Three submissions were accepted as full papers and presented at the JURIX conference in Maastricht.
- Ludi van Leeuwen presented Evaluating Methods for Setting a Prior Probability of Guilt (with Rineke Verbrugge and Silja Renooij).
- Cor Steging presented Improving Rationales with Small, Inconsistent and Incomplete Data (with Silja Renooij).
- Wijnand van Woerkom presented Hierarchical a Fortiori Reasoning with Dimensions (with Davide Grossi and Henry Prakken).
JURIX 2023 workshop on AI, law and philosophy (ALP@JURIX2023, Maastricht, December 18) (coorganized with Jaap Hage, Antonia Waltermann, Ludi van Leeuwen).
AILO talk `Hybrid argumentation systems' (December 6, 2023)
Responsible AI should be capable of logical reasoning (by Charlotte Vlek)
Join us at the AI@Rug lustrum (2023)
AI in Wonderland: Celebrating 30 years of the AI program at the University of Groningen (Friday, November 3, 2023)
Invited talk `Responsible AI/the alignment of knowledge-based and data-driven AI' at the final conference of the LAST-JD-RIoE doctoral program (EU Horizon 2020) (October 26, 2023, Università Degli Studi Di Bologna)
Keynote lecture `Hybrid decision making using knowledge and data' at the International Workshop on Logic, AI and Law (LAIL 2023, September 11-12, 2023, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) (online)
Keynote lecture `On hybrid decision making and the future of law and AI' at the VI Lisbon meeting on legal theory; theme: Artificial Intelligence & Legal Decision (University of Lisbon)
Daniil Kozhemiachenko presents the paper `Presumptive Reasoning in a Paraconsistent Setting' at TARK 2023 in Oxford (with Sabine Frittella)
Workshop on the Design of Responsible Hybrid Intelligence in München at the HHAI 2023 conference (coorganized with Cor Steging and Ludi van Leeuwen).
Cor Steging presents the paper `Taking the Law More Seriously by Investigating Design Choices in Machine Learning Prediction Research' at the ASAIL workshop at ICAIL 2023 in Braga (with Silja Renooij)
Ludi van Leeuwen presents the paper `Using Agent-Based Simulations to Evaluate Bayesian Networks for Criminal Scenarios' at ICAIL 2023 in Braga (with Silja Renooij and Rineke Verbrugge)
Wijnand van Woerkom presents the paper `Hierarchical Precedential Constraint' at ICAIL 2023 in Braga (with Davide Grossi and Henry Prakken)
Visit Marcello Di Bello and three talks on evidence in AI and philosophy (2023)
Talks by Marcello Di Bello, Hylke Jellema and Ludi van Leeuwen.
Wachara Fungwacharakorn presents the paper `Constructing and Explaining Case Models: A Case-based Argumentation Perspective' at JURISIN 2023 in Kamumoto (with Ken Satoh)
PhD position on hybrid argumentation using large scale knowledge graphs (at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; jointly with the University of Groningen). Supervisors: Ilaria Tiddi, Bart Verheij (application deadline: June 30, 2023)
Responsible AI in the press (2023)
Will a chatbot soon replace the teacher in the classroom? (Vervangt een chatbot straks de leraar voor de klas?) (comment for Oog TV/Omroep Groningen; in Dutch)
Hamed Ayoobi's paper Explain What You See: Open-Ended Segmentation and Recognition of Occluded 3D Objects has been accepted for the ICRA 2023 conference in London (with Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
Argument & Computation Community Resources paper (2023)
Cor Steging has described two data sets in a paper in the Argument & Computation Community Resources (ACCR) corner: `Arguments, rules and cases in law: Resources for aligning learning and reasoning in structured domains' (with Silja Renooij and Trevor Bench-Capon).
Dissertation defence with workshop (2023)
On Monday January 30, 2023 (11:00), Hamed Ayoobi defends his dissertation `Explain What You See: Argumentation-Based Learning and Robotic Vision' in the aula of the University of Groningen (in the academy building). And after that a workshop in celebration (14:00-17:00). You are welcome to join us.
The Wintersymposium of the KWG (Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap) is devoted to artificial intelligence. I will deliver a lecture entitled Wiskunde voor goede kunstmatige intelligentie (in Dutch; Academiegebouw Utrecht, January 14, 2023).
Unpacking arguments (with Trevor Bench-Capon)
Invited talk (Paris, Campus Concercet) (2022)
Invited talk `Algorithmic Law as Computational Argumentation' at the International Symposium on Compliance for Algorithmic Law (SCALGO 2022)
Graduate course (Hangzhou/online) (2022)
Winter school AI & Law at Zhejiang Unverisity (Guanghua Law school)
Talk at Global AI Technology Conference (Hangzhou/online, prerecorded)
A Labeling Based Backtracking Solver for Abstract Argumentation (with Lukas Kinder, Matthias Thimm). This paper is based on Lukas Kinder's BSc thesis and was presented by him at SAFA 2022.
Wijnand van Woerkom presents the paper `Justification in case-based reasoning' at ArgXAI@COMMA 2022 (with Davide Grossi and Henry Prakken)
How complex is the strong admissibility semantics for abstract dialectical frameworks? (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Wolfgang Dvořák and Rineke Verbrugge)
BNAIC/BENELEARN 2022 FACt session: FACulty focusing on the FACts of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Speakers: Khalid Al Khatib (University of Groningen), Joost Vennekens (KU Leuven), Gianluca Bontempi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (co-organised with Réka Markovich, Gilles Louppe, Tom Lenaerts)
Talk `Innovating artificial intelligence by looking at the law' at workshop celebrating Masha Medvedeva's PhD dissertation defence (as member of the reading committee)
Leiden Legal Technologies Program (2022)
Two contributions: B: Rechtsinformatica en rechts-AI, C: AI-systemen voor juridische logica en argumentatie
Talk at discussion meeting with Prof.dr. Jaap Hage and his PhD students (Hester van der Kaaij 2016, Antonia Waltermann 2016, Ronald Leenes 1999, Arno Lodder 1998, Bart Verheij 1996)
In an overview paper Thirty years of Artificial Intelligence and Law: the first decade coauthored withGuido Governatori, Trevor Bench-Capon, Michal Araszkiewicz, Enrico Francesconi and Matthias Grabmair, I contributed two commentaries, one on the 1993 paper `Hard cases: A procedural approach' by Jaap Hage, Ronald Leenes and Arno Lodder, and one on the 1995 paper `Rationales and argument moves' by Ronald Loui and Jeff Norman.
Talk at workshop in Regensburg (2022)
At the workshop Reasoning and uncertainty: probabilistic, logical, and psychological perspectives organized by Niki Pfeifer (University of Regensburg), Hans Rott (University of Regensburg), and Giuseppe Sanfilippo (University of Palermo), I will give a talk entitled `Arguments, scenarios and probabilities as tools for reasoning and uncertainty'.
The chapter The Study of Artificial Intelligence as Law was published in the book Law and Artificial Intelligence. Regulating AI and Applying AI in Legal Practice (edited by Bart Custers and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga). The chapter is an adapted version of AI as Law.
Wijnand van Woerkom's paper Landmarks in Case-based Reasoning: From Theory to Data (with Davide Grossi and Henry Prakken) was accepted and presented at the HHAI 2022 conference as a full paper. Cor Steging's extended abstract Discovering the Rationale of Decisions (with Silja Renooij) was accepted and presented.
Workshop HI ESDiT Collaboration on AI, Human Values and the Law at HHAI 2022, the first international conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
Lecture `Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Reasoning with Arguments and Evidence' at the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Hybrid Intelligence (KR4HI) at the first international conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2022)
In the OSCMART Online Seminar on Computational Models of Argument series (May 31, 2022)
Joost J. Joosten (University of Barcelona): Model checking and formally verified software for temporal quantitative regulations (May 18, 2022)
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems paper (2022)
Higher-order theory of mind is especially useful in unpredictable negotiations (with Harmen de Weerd and Rineke Verbrugge)
COMMA 2022: 9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (Cardiff).
Submission deadline: 3rd of May 2022 (anywhere on earth)
Lecture `Hybrid intelligence for algorithmic law design' at the conference on Algorithmic Law Design and Implementation (April 28 and 29, 2022; University of Barcelona)
Dissertation defence with workshop (2022)
On Tuesday April 19, 2022 (11:00), Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi defends her dissertation `Abstract Dialectical Frameworks. Semantics, Discussion Games, and Variations' in the aula of the University of Groningen (in the academy building). And after that a workshop in celebration (14:00-17:00). You are welcome to join us.
Artificial intelligence and argumentation: an update (@Matthias Thimm's Artificial Intelligence Group, University of Hagen, March 31, 2022)
Contribution to liber amicorum Peter van Koppen (2020/2022)
Stories about Evidence (with Floris Bex)
Opgave AI. De nieuwe systeemtechnologie (2022)
Discussiebijeenkomst Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Universiteit van Amsterdam) en Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR)
Editorial Argument & Computation (2022)
Towards an inclusive, responsible and sustainable open access model (with Pietro Baroni)
Digital Law Forum, University of Alberta/Gathertown (2022)
Panel member and talk `AI as Law', February 15, 2022
Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal paper (2022 online)
Local-HDP: Interactive Open-ended 3D Object Category Recognition in Real-Time Robotic Scenarios (with Hamed Ayoobi, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
IEEE ICMLA conference paper (2021)
Argue to Learn: Accelerated Argumentation-Based Learning (with Hamed Ayoobi, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
Rationale Discovery and Explainable AI (with Cor Steging and Silja Renooij)
The proceedings of the JURIX 2021 conference have been published (open access).
Hybrid Intelligence project meeting (2021)
Responsible Hybrid Intelligence research line meeting (December 15, 2021, online)
Joint AICOL-XAILA workshop @ JURIX 2021 (Vilnius/online) (2021)
A new edition of the EXplainable & Responsible AI in Law (XAILA) Workshop series
Logical Comparison of Cases (with Heng Zheng, Davide Grossi)
17th ARGDIAP conference (2021)
Reasoned Argumentation. Legal, Computational and Linguistic Perspectives (online) (conference chair Michał Araszkiewicz, program chair Bart Verheij)
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering journal paper (2021 online)
Argumentation-Based Online Incremental Learning (with Hamed Ayoobi, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
Argument & Computation journal paper (2021 online)
Strong Admissibility for Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi and Rineke Verbrugge)
BNAIC/BENELEARN 2021 FACt session: FACulty focusing on the FACts of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Speakers: Benoit Macq (UCLouvain), Gilles Louppe (University of Liège), Christoph Schommer (Université du Luxembourg) (co-organised with Réka Markovich, Tom Lenaerts)
Invited lecture workshop Different perspectives on argumentation (2021)
Rule-based Arguments Grounded in Cases (October 29, 2021, online/(Comenius University in Bratislava); commentator: Daniela Glavaničová)
4TU.Ethics bi-annual conference (2021)
Panel Hybrid Intelligence/Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Gravitation projects (HI/ESDiT) collaboration on AI, human values and the law (October 14-15, 2021, online)
Contribution to liber amicorum Jaap van den Herik (2021)
A Second Coffeehouse Conversation on the Van den Herik Test
Talk at symposium preceding valedictory lecture Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik (October 8) (2021)
Rekenen met recht
Explainable AI and Law (September 22, 2021, online)
Hybrid Intelligence project meeting (2021)
Responsible Hybrid Intelligence research line meeting (September 15, 2021, online)
Douglas Neil Walton (1942 - 2020) (with Erik Krabbe)
The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2021, Sao Paulo) (2021)
With paper presentations by Heng Zheng (Hardness of Case-Based Decisions: a Formal Theory; with Davide Grossi) and by Cor Steging (Discovering the Rationale of Decisions: Towards a Method for Aligning Learning and Reasoning; with Silja Renooij)
XAILA2021@ICAIL (June 22, 2021)
The 4th International Workshop on eXplainable and Responsible AI and Law at the ICAIL 2021 conference (coorganized with Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Michał Araszkiewicz and Martin Atzmueller). With a paper presentations by Cor Steging (Discovering the Rationale of Decisions: Experiments on Aligning Learning and Reasoning; with Silja Renooij)
With a presentation by Heng Zheng on A formal approach to case comparison in case-based reasoning: research abstract (with Davide Grossi)
Hardness of Case-Based Decisions: a Formal Theory (with Heng Zheng, Davide Grossi)
Discovering the Rationale of Decisions: Towards a Method for Aligning Learning and Reasoning' (with Cor Steging and Silja Renooij)
Discovering the Rationale of Decisions: Experiments on Aligning Learning and Reasoning (with Cor Steging, Silja Renooij)
XAILA2021@ICAIL call for papers (2021)
The 4th International Workshop on eXplainable and Responsible AI and Law (XAILA2021@ICAIL) at the ICAIL 2021 conference (coorganized with Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Michał Araszkiewicz and Martin Atzmueller).
Submission deadline: May 18, 2021
Leiden Legal Technologies Program (2021)
Two contributions: B: Rechtsinformatica en rechts-AI, C: AI-systemen voor juridische logica en argumentatie
Strong Admissibility for Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi and Rineke Verbrugge)
Chapter in Research Handbook on Big Data Law (2021)
Rules, cases and arguments in artificial intelligence and law (with Heng Zheng; handbook editor Roland Vogl, CodeX, Stanford).
Hamed Ayoobi posted a demonstration video of interactive 3D object recognition, described in this arXiv preprint
Strong Admissibility for Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Rineke Verbrugge)
Precedent Comparison in the Precedent Model Formalism: Theory and Application to Legal Cases (with Heng Zheng and Davide Grossi)
Precedent Comparison in the Precedent Model Formalism: A Technical Note (with Heng Zheng and Davide Grossi)
XAILA workshop at JURIX (December 9, 2020)
The EXplainable & Responsible AI in Law (XAILA) Workshop at JURIX 2020 (coorganized with Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Michał Araszkiewicz and Martin Atzmueller)
Hybrid Intelligence project meeting (2020)
Workshop Hybrid Intelligence: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (December 4, 2020, online)
The proceedings of ECA 2019 - the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation in Groningen are now available (with Jan Albert van Laar, Henrike Jansen and Catarina Dutilh Novaes)
Speakers: Nico Roos (Maastricht University), Yingqian Zhang (Eindhoven University of Technology), Luc de Raedt (KU Leuven) (co-organised with Tom Lenaerts)
Argument & Computation journal call for papers (2020)
25 years since Douglas Walton's "Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning" (guest editor Fabrizio Macagno)
Case-Based Reasoning with Precedent Models: Preliminary Report (with Heng Zheng and Davide Grossi)
A Discussion Game for the Grounded Semantics of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi and Rineke Verbrugge)
Local-HDP: Interactive Open-Ended 3D Object Categorization (with Hamed Ayoobi, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
TopiCS in Cognitive Science journal paper (2020)
Analyzing the Simonshaven Case With and Without Probabilities
Vacancy: PhD position (Utrecht) (2020)
PhD position in Hybrid Intelligence (Utrecht University): Explaining data-driven decisions with legal, ethical or social impact to end-users (supervisors Henry Prakken, UU; Davide Grossi, RUG; Bart Verheij, RUG) (application deadline: August 31, 2020)
A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect by Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (with the Hybrid Intelligence project partners)
Artificial Intelligence & Law journal article (2020)
Artificial intelligence as law. Presidential address to the seventeenth international conference on artificial intelligence and law
Argument & Computation journal special issue (2020)
On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games: 25 years later (with Pietro Baroni, Francesca Toni) (see A&C newsletter)
In memoriam Douglas N. Walton (2020)
In memoriam Douglas N. Walton: the influence of Doug Walton on AI and law (in the Artificial Intelligence & Law journal; with Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, Floris Bex, Thomas Gordon, Henry Prakken, Giovanni Sartor)
Open position Human-Computer Collaboration (2020)
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Modeling group of the Department of Artificial Intelligence (application deadline July 1, 2020)
Open position Cognitive & Behavioural Robotics (2020)
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Autonomous Perceptive Systems group of the Department of Artificial Intelligence (application deadline July 1, 2020)
COMMA 2020: 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (Perugia, September 8-11, 2020). Deadline (extended): May 8, 2020.
Virtual Master Day (April 3) (2020)
Masters Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Communication (videos also @Youtube)
Artificial Intelligence & Law journal special issue (2020)
Special issue - Evidence & decision making in the law: theoretical, computational and empirical approaches (with Marcello Di Bello)
9 PhD scholarship positions (involving mathematics, computer science and AI) @DSSC_Groningen The Centre for Data Science and Systems Complexity, including one on Responsible Processing of Natural Language Data (with Fatih Turkmen and Arianna Bisazza)
The Netherlands, take the AI opportunity, now, responsibly! (with Jeroen van den Hoven and Holger Hoos, in Dutch)
Public discussion on AI strategy in parliament committee (2020)
Hoorzitting / rondetafelgesprek Strategisch Actieplan voor Artificiële Intelligentie (Vaste kamercommissie Economie en Klimaat (see this position paper) (February 20, 2020)
Research on collaborative, adaptive, responsible, explainable hybrid intelligence, i.e., combinations of human and machine intelligence. Collaboration of six universities in the Netherlands. Ten year project, nineteen million euros, good resources, diversity. Groningen AI department supervisors: Davide Grossi, Rineke Verbrugge (co-applicant/member executive board), Bart Verheij (coordinator responsible HI)
AI exhibition Groningen Forum (2020)
Workshops `Playing with AI' (by Groningen AI students, supported by SV Cover)
A Comparison of Two Hybrid Methods for Analyzing Evidential Reasoning (with Ludi van Leeuwen)
NWO AI Research Agenda for the Netherlands (AIREA-NL)
A Good Artificial Intelligence for our Complex World (invited lecture)
BNAIC/BENELEARN 2019 paper (Thursday, November 7, Brussels) (2019)
The XAI Paradox: systems that perform well for the wrong reasons (with Cor Steging and Lambert Schomaker)
BNAIC/BENELEARN 2019 abstract (Thursday, November 7, Brussels) (2019)
Handling Unforeseen Failures Using Argumentation-Based Learning (with Hamed Ayoobi, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge; abstract of CASE 2019 paper)
Speakers: Dirk Heylen (University of Twente), Holger Hoos (Leiden University), Silja Renooij (Utrecht University) (co-organised with Tom Lenaerts)
Discussion Games for Preferred Semantics of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (see her recent ECSQARU 2019 paper)
TechTalks050 (Groningen, September 30) (2019)
AI en recht - Robotisering in de rechtszaal (AI and law – Robotization in the courtroom; in Dutch)
Zwaartekracht grant Hybrid Intelligence: augmenting human intellect (2019)
The AI department participates in the recently awarded NWO Zwaartekracht project Hybrid Intelligence (Rineke Verbrugge co-applicant/member executive board, Bart Verheij coordinator responsible HI, Davide Grossi)
ECSQARU 2019 paper (Belgrade, September, 18-20) (2019)
Discussion Games for Preferred Semantics of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Rineke Verbrugge)
Invited talk University of Brescia (September 12-13) (2019)
On Computational Argumentation, and the Path to a Responsible Artificial Intelligence (at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell' Informazione Università degli Studi di Brescia)
CASE 2019 paper (Vancouver, August 22-26) (2019)
Handling Unforeseen Failures Using Argumentation-Based Learning (with Hamed Ayoobi, Ming Cao, Rineke Verbrugge)
ISIPTA 2019 paper (Ghent, July 3-6) (2019)
Embedding Probabilities, Utilities and Decisions in a Generalization of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (with Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Rineke Verbrugge)
ECA 2019 organisation (Groningen, June 24-27) (2019)
3rd European Conference on Argumentation - ECA 2019: Reason to Dissent (with Jan Albert van Laar, Henrike Jansen and Catarina Dutilh Novaes)
Presidential address ICAIL 2019 (Montreal, June 19) (2019)
Artificial Intelligence as Law
ICAIL 2019 (Montreal, June 17-21) (2019)
17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019) (Montreal, Canada)
Panel member AI and Legal Practice (2019)
`What AI can and cannot do currently', 2nd ICAIL Workshop on AI and Legal Practice, Montreal, June 17, 2019
Vacancies: tenure track positions (all levels) (2019)
In cognitive artificial intelligence (in particular explainable AI, cognitive and behavioral robotics, responsible AI) and human computer interaction and visualisation (in particular human-computer collaboration). Currently available as Rosalind Franklin Fellowships aimed at female researchers, expected to be opened more widely. Please get in touch if you are interested (send email).
Artificial Intelligence and the Logic of Argumentation
Call for papers special issue Argument and Computation journal (2019)
25 years since Dung's paper on abstract argumentation (submission deadline May 20, 2019, extended)
Invited graduate course Central South University, Changsha (2019)
Spring School on Artificial Intelligence and Law at the at the Central South University, Changsha (with Floris Bex and Enrico Francesconi)
Conference Central South University, Changsha (2019)
`Legal Artificial Intelligence Research Frontiers', Central South University, Changsha (report)
Lecture study day argumentation platform (VIOT) (2019)
Argumentation and Artificial Intelligence (in Dutch; February 13, 2019; Huize Heyendael, Nijmegen)
Inaugural lecture (full text and slides) (2018)
Arguments for Good Artificial Intelligence (text in the original Dutch and in English translation)
Checking the Validity of Rule-Based Arguments Grounded in Cases: A Computational Approach (with Heng Zheng and Minghui Xiong)
JURIX 2018 organisation (Groningen, December 12-14) (2018)
The 31st international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (with Monica Palmirani, Henry Prakken, Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici)
Keynote lecture at the EXplainable AI in Law (XAILA) 2018 Workshop (2018)
Keynote lecture `Good AI and Law' (at the EXplainable AI in Law (XAILA) Workshop at JURIX)
The Hague Conference `Data science voor societal challenges' (2018)
Speaker in session `Agenda setting: shaping the national data agenda' on behalf of the Groningen Centre for Data Science and Systems Complexity (DSSC)
Opening research institute (November 1) (2018)
Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keynote lecture, panel chair (2018)
Keynote lecture `Good AI and Law', chair of panel `Artificial Intelligence Applied: Real Life Examples' (at the II International Congress of Law, Government and Technology in Brasilia, Brazil)
Invited lecture `Good AI and Law' (at Lawgorithm, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
ECA 2017 conference paper (2018)
On Coherent Arguments And Their Inferential Roles (with commentary by Mathieu Beirlaen)
Chapter `Evidential Reasoning' (in the Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation; with Marcello Di Bello)
Chapter `Argumentation Theory in Formal and Computational Perspective' (in the Handbook of Formal Argumentation; with Frans van Eemeren)
Dutch AI Manifesto (@IPN SIG AI, @BNVKI) (2018)
The IPN Special Interest Group AI has written a Dutch AI Manifesto emphasising three research focus areas for the coming decades: Socially-Aware AI, Explainable AI and Responsible AI.
AI and Law, Bestone, Shanghai
Invited Orient Forum lecture Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) (2018)
Road to `Good Artificial Intelligence': Argumentation Systems (at the Institute of Logic and Cognition)
Invited graduate course Sun Yat-Sen University (2018)
Spring School on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Law at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (with Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)
Stanford CodeX FutureLaw conference (2018)
Legal Innovation Lightning Round, speaker (invited)
Filosofisch café Groningen (2018)
Lecture and discussion Argumenten voor een goede kunstmatige intelligentie (Arguments for good artificial intelligence); in Dutch
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (2018)
Research in Progress: Report on the ICAIL 2017 Doctoral Consortium (with candidates Maria Dymitruk, Réka Markovich, Rūta Liepiņa, Mirna El Ghosh, Robert van Doesburg and co-organiser Guido Governatori)
BNAIC 2017 (November 8-9, 2017)
The 29th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Groningen) (cochair with Marco Wiering; download the conference poster)
Invited talk (October 11-12, 2017)
Workshop on Legal evidence and argumentation (ArgLab, Lisbon). Title of talk: Proof With and Without Probabilities
Studium Generale Groningen event `The Fiction of Reality' (September 18, 2017)
Dinner with speakers (`kennisdiner' with historian Jan Blaauw, medical researcher Désirée Goubert, `theatermaakster' Sarah Moeremans). Location: Grand Theatre. Catering: Kruimels. Report `Arguing over dinner' in the Universiteitskrant in English and in Dutch.
Inaugural lecture (September 12, 2017)
Argumenten voor goede kunstmatige intelligentie (Arguments for good artificial intelligence) (see the text)
Projects The value of data and Home robotics
- In your motivation letter, you should apply for a specific project or projects.
- There are restrictions: you should not have resided or carried out your main activity in The Netherlands for more than 12 months in the three years before July 15, 2017.
ICAIL 2017 conference paper (2017)
Formalizing Arguments, Rules and Cases
ICAIL 2017 Doctoral Consortium (2017)
Doctoral consortium candidates Maria Dymitruk, Réka Markovich, Rūta Liepiņa, Mirna El Ghosh, Robert van Doesburg
Workshop King's College, London (2017)
Evidence & Decision Making in the Law: Theoretical, Computational and Empirical Approaches (organized with Marcello Di Bello)
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal special issue (2017)
Special issue Artificial Intelligence for Justice (AI4J) (with Floris Bex, Henry Prakken and Tom van Engers)
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal paper (2017)
Proof With and Without Probabilities. Correct Evidential Reasoning with Presumptive Arguments, Coherent Hypotheses and Degrees of Uncertainty
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems paper (2017)
Negotiating with Other Minds. The Role of Recursive Theory of Mind in Negotiation with Incomplete Information (with Harmen de Weerd and Rineke Verbrugge)
On Wednesday February 1, 2017, Sjoerd Timmer
defends his dissertation `Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks using Argumentation' in Utrecht.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning journal paper (2017)
A two-phase method for extracting explanatory arguments from Bayesian networks (with Sjoerd Timmer, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Silja Renooij)
JURIX conference paper on ethical systems design (2016)
Arguments for Ethical Systems Design
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal paper on ethical systems design (2016)
Formalizing Value-Guided Argumentation for Ethical Systems Design
Correct Grounded Reasoning with Presumptive Arguments
Final symposium NWO Forensic Science research program (2016)
Presentation of the research project on statistics, argumentation and scenarios in forensic reasoning (report by ZonMW in Dutch)
Scientific programme Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science
Workshop and dissertation defence (2016)
Friday October 28, 2016: Dissertation defence Charlotte Vlek (press report, download dissertation)
Thursday October 27, 2016: Workshop Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Scenarios and Bayesian Networks for Analyzing Forensic Evidence
Invited graduate course Second Summer School of Argumentation (2016)
University of Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee
Artificial Intelligence for Justice, workshop at ECAI (2016)
The Hague, August 30, 2016
Argument and Computation journal (2016)
First open access issue online
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal paper (2016)
A Method for Explaining Bayesian Networks for Legal Evidence with Scenarios (with Charlotte Vlek, Henry Prakken and Silja Renooij)
Stanford CodeX FutureLaw conference (2016)
Computational Law Update, speaker (invited)
Arguments for Understanding our Complex World
Law, Probability and Risk journal paper (2016)
Arguments, Scenarios and Probabilities: Connections Between Three Normative Frameworks for Evidential Reasoning (with Floris Bex, Sjoerd Timmer, Charlotte Vlek, John-Jules Meyer, Silja Renooij and Henry Prakken)
Book Virtual Arguments, Chinese translation (2016)
China University of Political Science and Law Press, series editor Professor Minghui Xiong (Sun Yat-Sen University, Institute of Logic and Cognition), translation Wu Zhou
PhD defense Harmen de Weerd and associated mini-symposium (2015)
Harmen de Weerd's dissertation: 'If You Know What I Mean. Agent-Based Models for Understanding The Function of Higher-Order Theory of Mind' (promotor: Rineke Verbrugge, copromotor: Bart Verheij)
Workshop Bielefeld, Germany (2015)
Models of Rational Proof in Criminal Law (organized by Floris Bex, Anne Ruth Mackor and Henry Prakken; with support from our NWO Forensic Science project)
Workshop University of San Diego, California (2015)
Studying Evidence in the Law - ICAIL 2015 Workshop: Formal, Computational and Philosophical Methods
Stanford CodeX FutureLaw conference 2015 (2015)
Panel New Breakthroughs in Computational Law, invited moderator
Workshop University of Groningen (2015)
Forensic Relevance of Bayesian Networks (language: Dutch)
Arguments, scenarios and probabilities: how to catch a thief with and without numbers
Presentation at the Effacts LegalTech event, Amsterdam (2015)
Argumentation Technology, Or: How the Law Is Changing Artificial Intelligence
Handbook of Argumentation Theory (2014)
with a chapter on Argumentation and Artificial Intelligence
COMMA 2014 conference paper (2014)
Arguments and Their Strength: Revisiting Pollock's Anti-Probabilistic Starting Points
Law, Probability and Risk journal paper (2014)
To Catch a Thief With and Without Numbers: Arguments, Scenarios and Probabilities in Evidential Reasoning
The Future of Argumentation Technology, as guided by the needs of the law
Keynote lecture 9th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics (2014)
To Catch a Thief With and Without Numbers
Artificial Intelligence and Law journal paper (2014)
Building Bayesian Networks for Legal Evidence with Narratives: a Case Study Evaluation(with Charlotte Vlek, Henry Prakken and Silja Renooij)
Trial With and Without Mathematics. Legal, Philosophical and Computational Perspectives. 2014 Stanford Symposium on Law and Rationality
Invited lecturing Sun Yat-Sen University (2013)
Invited graduate course "Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, With Applications in the Law" at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
BNAIC 2013 conference paper (2013)
Inference and Attack in Bayesian Networks (with Sjoerd Timmer, John-Jules Meyer, Henry Prakken and Silja Renooij)
Computational Narrative workshop (2013)
Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (Hamburg, Germany, August 4-6, 2013), with a paper/presentation by Charlotte Vlek: Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network
ICAIL 2013 conference paper (2013)
Modeling Crime Scenarios in a Bayesian Network (with Charlotte Vlek, Henry Prakken, and Silja Renooij)
Artificial Intelligence journal paper (2013)
How Much Does it Help to Know What she Knows you Know? An Agent-Based Simulation Study (with Harmen de Weerd and Rineke Verbrugge)
The Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013) Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013
Legal Stories and the Process of Proof (with Floris Bex)
A history of AI and Law in 50 papers: 25 years of the international conference on AI and Law (with many coauthors; ed. Trevor Bench-Capon)
Jumping to Conclusions. A Logico-Probabilistic Foundation for Defeasible Rule-Based Arguments
Forensic Science symposium (2012)
1st Symposium NWO Forensic Science (NFI Field Lab, The Hague, September 18, 2012)
The Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012) Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012
Argumentation journal paper (2012)
Solving a Murder Case by Asking Critical Questions: An Approach to Fact-Finding in Terms of Argumentation and Story Schemes (with Floris Bex)