Special issue - On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games: 25 years laterPietro Baroni, Francesca Toni, Bart VerheijConclusionThe study of argumentation, in its historical, formal and applied development shows its fundamental role in applications in a diversity of domains and explains how people from different cultures, ages and times can understand each other as long as they are willing to peacefully resolve conflicts by focusing on arguments and how they attack each other. Without any claim to completeness, we have shown examples of the breadth and depth of research into computational argumentation in this foreword. The work on abstract argumentation [38,39] has inspired many researchers in their formal, computational and applied efforts towards achieving a better understanding of the fascinating topic of argumentation in all its complexity and nuances. This was also recognized by the recent Artificial Intelligence Journal Classic Paper Award (announced at IJCAI 2018) for the pioneering paper published in 1995. Celebrating 25 years of fruitful research having roots in and taking inspiration from this work, this special issue provides a representative collection of contributions from the field. (...) Manuscript (in PDF-format) Reference: Baroni, P., Toni, F., & Verheij, B. (eds.) (2020). Argument & Computation 11 (1-2). On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games: 25 years later Bart Verheij's home page - research - publications |