AI³ 2026

We invite submissions of the latest research results concerning applications and theory of computational argumentation to the 10th Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2026), a track of the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), which will be held in Perugia, Italy, from 6-9 October 2026.

Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration of different specific techniques and the development of trustworthy applications.

Over the last two decades, formal argumentation has become one of the main research topics in Artificial Intelligence. A variety of theoretical models at different levels of abstraction have been extensively studied, ranging from purely abstract models to concrete implemented systems. Argumentation solvers have been developed to determine the justification status of arguments according to different semantics, and numerous applications have been proposed in areas including social networks, law, and medicine.

Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the goal of the workshop, co-located with AIxIA 2026, is to stimulate discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers not only directly involved in argumentation, but also from research fields indirectly related to it.

In particular, two complementary research directions are envisaged:

• Cross-fertilization with fields such as non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy, and psychology, to extend the foundations of Argumentation Theory and address open research questions.
• Interdisciplinary collaborations to foster the adoption of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm across a broad range of applications.

In Italy, several research groups from different universities and institutions have been actively working on argumentation in recent years. One of the aims of the workshop is therefore to strengthen collaboration within the national research community.

At the same time, recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, particularly in machine learning, deep neural networks, and Large Language Models (LLMs), have renewed interest in methods capable of providing interpretable, explainable, and trustworthy reasoning. Argumentation is increasingly recognised as a key enabling technology for addressing these challenges by offering formal mechanisms to generate, evaluate, and communicate justifications, as well as assess the soundness and reliability of complex reasoning processes.

The workshop welcomes contributions investigating the interplay between argumentation and modern AI systems, with particular attention to explainability, trustworthiness, accountability, and reasoning reliability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Explainable AI with Argumentation
• Argumentation for trustworthy and reliable AI
• Persuasion systems
• Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation
• Properties and evaluation of formal models of argumentation
• Computational properties of argumentation
• Traditional and ranking-based semantics
• Instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks
• Implementation of argumentation systems
• Relationships amongst different argumentation frameworks
• Philosophical theories of argumentation
• Argument mining
• Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems
• Dialogue based on argumentation
• Strategies in argumentation
• Decision-making based on argumentation
• Argumentation-based negotiation
• Argumentation, trust and reputation
• Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation
• Argumentation and other Artificial Intelligence techniques
• Argumentation and game theory
• Argumentation and probability
• Argumentation and fuzzy logic
• Argumentation and narrative
• Argumentation and computational linguistics
• Argumentation and human-computer interaction
• Reasoning about action and time with argumentation
• Tools for supporting argumentation
• Practical applications of formal models of argumentation
• Systems for learning through argument
• Argument-based machine learning
• Validation and evaluation of applications of argumentation

The workshop invites three types of submissions:

• Full papers (15 pages), including contributions already submitted to other conferences or journals.
• Short papers (5 pages), particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or research project overviews.
• Research project overviews (3 pages), which may be presented as posters.

Manuscripts should be formatted using the 1-column CEUR-ART Style. Authors may use the Overleaf template or download the offline style files.

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ai301.

All submissions will undergo peer review. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Selected contributions will also be considered for publication in a post-workshop special issue or edited volume.

The conference and workshops will be held in person, with the possibility of arranging remote participation for specific participants upon request.

All attendees, and at least one author of each accepted paper, must register for AIxIA 2026.