This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMas 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2011 in association with the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011).

Fuzzy Labeling for Argumentation Frameworks.-ABA: Argumentation Based Agents.-Practical Argumentation Semantics for Pareto Optimality and Its Relationships with Values.-Syncretic Argumentation for Multi-agents by Lattice Homomorphism, Fusion and Sum.-A Semantics for Dynamic Argumentation Frameworks.-On the Outcomes of Multiparty Persuasion.-Arguing with Justifications between Collaborating Agents.-Reasoning about and Discussing Preferences between Arguments.-Multi-criteria Argument Selection in Persuasion Dialogues.-Argumentation Strategies for Collaborative Plan Resourcing.-Cooperative Dialogues for Defeasible Argumentation-Based Planning.-Using Argumentation to Reason with and about Trust.-Toward the Application of Argumentation to Interactive Learning Systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, ArgMas 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2011 in association with the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011).The 8 revised full papers taken from ArgMAS 2011. Also included are 5 invited papers based on presentations on argumentation at the AAMAS 2011 main conference. All together the 13 papers included in the book give a representative overview on current research on argumentation in multi-agent systems. The papers are listed alphabetically by first author within three thematic topics: foundations and theory; argumentation and dialogue; and applications.

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