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Journals and Book Chapters

  • Black, E., Brandao, M., Cocarascu, O., De Keijzer, B., Du, Y., Long, D., Luck, M., McBurney, P., Merono-Penuela, A., Miles, S., Modgil, S., Moreau, L., Polukarov, M., Rodrigues, O. & Ventre, C. Reasoning and interaction for social artificial intelligence. In: AI Communications. 35, 4, p. 309 - 325. 2022.

  • Kökciyan, N.; Sassoon, I.; Sklar, E.; Modgil, S.; and Parsons, S. Applying Metalevel Argumentation Frameworks to Support Medical Decision Making.. In: IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(2-4), pp. 121-129, 2004.

  • D. Grossi and S.Modgil On the Graded Acceptability of Arguments in Abstract and Instantiated Argumentation. In: Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), (275), 138-173, 2019.

  • M. D'Agostino and S.Modgil Classical Logic, Argument and Dialectic. In Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). 262, 15 - 51, 2018.

  • S. Modgil and H. Prakken Corrigendum to: ``A General Account of Argumentation with Preferences'' [Artif. Intell. 195 (2013) 361-397]. In Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). (doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.05.001") 2018.

  • S. Modgil and H. Prakken Abstract rule-based argumentation. In P. Baroni, D. Gabbay, M. Giacomin & L. van der Torre (eds.): Handbook of Formal Argumentation, Vol. 1, pp. 286--361. London: College Publications., 2018 (version July 4th, 2017).

  • S. Modgil, H. Prakken. The ASPIC+ framework for structured argumentation: a tutorial. In: Argument and Computation, 5(1), 31-62, 2014.

  • S. Modgil. Revisiting Metalevel Argumentation. In: A Festschrift in Honour of Trevor Bench-Capon on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. , London College Publications, 135-150, 2013.

  • S. Modgil, H. Prakken. A General Account of Argumentation and Preferences. In: Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) . 195(0), 361 - 397, 2013.

    (4th most cited article in Artificial Intelligence in the last 5 years (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/most-cited-articles))

    This online version of the paper corrects an error in the version of the paper that appears in the AIJ (An explanation of the correction can be found here: Corrigendum for: A General Account of Argumentation with Preferences). The online version here includes a modified version of Section 5.1 (and proofs of results in this section in the Appendix). We are very grateful to Sjur Dyrkolbotn for drawing our attention to a problem with the definition of `reasonable inducing' that has now been corrected in this online version. Note that the counter-example to rationality noted in: P. M. Dung. An Axiomatic Analysis of Structured Argumentation for Prioritised Default Reasoning. ECAI2014, 267-272, 2014, is now no longer a counter-example according to this online version.

  • F. Bex, S. Modgil, H. Prakken, C. Reed. On Logical Specifications of the Argument Interchange Format. In: Journal of Logic and Computation (JLC) . 23(5), (first published online August 3 2012, doi: 10.1093/logcom/exs033).

  • S.Modgil and F.Toni (eds.). The Added Value of Argumentation. Book chapter in: Agreement Technologies. Springer Verlag, 2013.

  • P. Tolchinsky, S. Modgil, Katie Atkinson, Peter McBurney and Ulises Cortes. Deliberation Dialogues for Reasoning about Safety Critical Actions. In: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS). Volume 25, Pages 209-259, 2012.

  • S. Modgil and T.J.M Bench-Capon. Metalevel Argumentation. In: Journal of Logic and Computation , 21(6), 959-1003, 2011 (First publised online in 2010; doi: 10.1093/logcom/exq054).

  • S. Modgil. Reasoning About Preferences in Argumentation Frameworks. In: Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). Volume 173, Issues 9-10, Pages 901-1040, June 2009.
    (2nd most cited AIJ article aince 2009) and Winner of the AIJ 2014 Prominent Paper Award

  • S. Modgil and M. Caminada. Proof Theories and Algorithms for Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. In: Argumentation in AI , I. Rahwan and G. Simari (eds), 105-132, Springer-Verlag, 2009.

  • Pancho Tolchinsky, Ulises Cortes, Sanjay Modgil, Francisco Caballero and Antonio Lopez-Navidad Increasing the Availability of Human Organs for Transplantation Through Argumentation Based Deliberation Among Agents.. In: IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Intelligent Agents in Healthcare, 21(6), 30-37, Nov/Dec 2006.

  • J. Fox and S.Modgil. From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View. Book chapter in: Arguing on the Toulmin Model New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation. Series: Argumentation Library , Vol. 10 Hitchcock, David; Verheij, Bart (Eds.) 2006. ISBN: 1-4020-4937-4

  • Carlos Chesnevar, Jarred McGinnis, Sanjay Modgil, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, Guillermo Simari, Matthew South, Gerard Vreeswijk, Steven Willmott. Towards an Argument Interchange Format.. In: The Knowledge Engineering Review, 21(4), 293-316, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

    • Refereed conference and Workshop papers

    2020

  • Andreas Xydis, Christopher Hampson, Sanjay Modgil, Elizabeth Black: A Sound and Complete Dialogue System for Handling Misunderstandings. In: SAFA-COMMA, 19-32, 2022: \\

  • Andreas Xydis, Christopher Hampson, Sanjay Modgil, Elizabeth Black: Towards a Sound and Complete Dialogue System for Handling Enthymemes. In: CLAR 2021b>: 437-456 2020.

  • M. D'Agostino and S. Modgil. A Fully Rational Account of Structured Argumentation Under Resource Bounds. In: 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'20), 1841-1847, 2020.

  • A. Xydis, C. Hampson, S. Modgil, E. Black. Enthymemes in dialogue. In Computational Models of Argument - Proceedings of COMMA2020. 355-369, 2020.

  • Kökciyan, N.; Parsons, S.; Sassoon, I.; Sklar, E.; and Modgil, S. An argumentation-based approach to generate domain-specific explanations. In European Conference on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS), pages 319–337, 2020. Springer International Publishing in press

    2019

  • K. van Berkel, A. Ciabattoni, E. Freschi, S. Modgil. Evaluating Networks of Arguments: A Case Study in Mimamsa Dialectics. In: International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI'19). 355-369. 2019.

  • T.J.M. Bench-Capon and S. Modgil. Norms and Extended Argumentation Frameworks . In: 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.

    2018

  • S. Modgil. Many Kinds of Minds are Better than One: Value Alignment Through Dialogue . In: Workshop on Argumentation and Philosophy (co-located with COMMA'18).

  • M. D'Agostino and S, Modgil. A Study of Argumentative Characterisations of Preferred Subtheories . In: 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18), 1788-1794, July 2018.

  • Anthony P. Young, Nadin Kokciyan, Isabel Sassoon, Sanjay Modgil and Simon Parsons. Instantiating Metalevel Argumentation Frameworks. In 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2018).

  • Kokciyan, N., Sassoon, I. K., Young, A. P., Chapman, M. D., Porat, T. R., Ashworth, M., Curcin, V., Modgil, S., Parsons, S. and Sklar, E. I. Towards an Argumentation System for Supporting Patients in Self-Managing their Chronic Conditions. . In: AAAI Joint Workshop on Health Intelligence 2018.

  • Kökciyan, N.; Sassoon, I.; Young, A.; Modgil, S.; and Parsons, S. Reasoning with Metalevel Argumentation Frameworks in Aspartix (Demo Paper).In Computational Models of Argument - Proceedings of COMMA, pages 463–464, 2018. IOS Press

    2017

  • S, Modgil. Dialogical Scaffolding for Human and Artificial Agent Reasoning . In: 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2017), 73-86, November 2017.

  • S, Modgil. The Role of Logic based Argument and Dialogue in Addressing the AI Value Loading Problem (Extended Abstract)., In: Values in Argumentation - Values in Argumentation, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, June 2017.

    P. Young, S. Modgil, O. Rodrigues. On the Interaction between Logic and Preference in Structured Argumentation . In: The 2017 International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (co-located with IJCAI'17), 33-50, 2017.

    S. Modgil, Towards a General Framework for Dialogues that Accommodate Reasoning About Preferences . In: The 2017 International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (co-located with IJCAI'17), 175-191, 2017.

    2016

  • M. D'Agostino and S.Modgil A Rational Account of Classical Logic Argumentation for Real-world Agents., In: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), 141 - 149, 2016.

  • M. A.Hosseini, S. Modgil, O. Rodrigues Assigning Likelihoods to Interlocutors, Beliefs and Arguments., In: 6th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument. (COMMA 2016), 339-350, 2016.

  • A.P. Young, S. Modgil, O. Rodrigues. Prioritised Default Logic as Rational Argumentation. In: Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016) , 626-634, 2016.

  • A.Hosseini, S. Modgil, O. Rodrigues. Estimating Second Order Arguments in Dialogical Settings. In: Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), 1469-1470, 2016.

    • 2015

  • C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black. Building Support Based Opponent Models. To appear in: The 2015 International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (TAFA'15), 2015.

  • D.Grossi and S. Modgil. On the Graded Acceptability of Arguments . In: Proc. 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), 868-874, 2015.

    • 2014

  • M.W.A. Caminada, S. Modgil and N. Oren. Preferences and Unrestricted Rebut. In : Proc. Fifth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA-2014), 209-220, 2014.

  • S.A.Hosseini, S. Modgil and O. Rodrigues. Enthymeme Construction in Dialogues using Shared Knowledge. In : Proc. Fifth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA-2014), 325-332, 2014.

    • 2013

  • S. Modgil. Revisiting Abstract Argumentation. In: L. Black, S. Modgil, N.Oren (Editors): Proceeedings of the Second International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2013 co-located with IJCAI 2013), 1-15, August 2013, Beijing, China.

  • C. Hadjinikolis, Y. Siantos, S. Modgil, E. Black, P. McBurney. Opponent Modelling in Persuasion Dialogues. In: F. Rossi (Editor): Proceeedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), August 2013, Beijing, China. ( Winner of best poster IJCAI 2013).

    2012

  • C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black, P. McBurney, M. Luck. Investigating Strategic Considerations in Persuasion Dialogue Games. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Starting AI Researchers' Symposium (STAIRS), 2012, IOS Press.

  • C. Hadjinikolis, S. Modgil, E. Black, P. McBurney. Mechanisms for Opponent Modelling. In: Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW), 2012, OpenAccess Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl.

  • S. Modgil and H. Prakken. Resolutions in Structured Argumentation. To appear in: Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument(COMMA-2012), 2012.

  • H. Prakken and S. Modgil. Clarifying some misconceptions on the ASPIC+ framework. To appear in: Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument(COMMA-2012), 2012.

    2011

  • S. Modgil and H. Prakken. Revisiting Preferences and Argumentation. In: Twenty-second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 1021-1026, 2011.

    • 2010

  • P.Dunne, S. Modgil and T. J. M. Bench-Capon. Computation in Extended Argumentation Frameworks. In: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), 119-124, 2010.

  • S. Modgil and H.Prakken. Reasoning about Preferences in Structured Extended Argumentation Frameworks. In: 3rd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA’10), 347-358, September 2010.

  • S. Modgil and T. J. M. Bench-Capon. Integrating Dialectical and Accrual Modes of Argumentation. In: 3rd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA’10), 335-346, September 2010.

    2009

  • S. Modgil. Labellings and Games for Extended Argumentation Frameworks. In: Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 873-878, California USA, July 2009.

  • S. Modgil and M.Luck. Argumentation based Resolution of Conflicts Between Desires and Normative Goals. In: Proc 4th Workshop on Normative Multi-Agent Systems (Normas 2009), Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2009, winner of best paper Normas 2009. Also in: Proc. Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2008), 252-263, Portugal, 2008.

  • T.J.M. Bench-Capon and S. Modgil. Case Law in Extended Argumentation Frameworks. In: Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009), 118-127 ,Barcelona, June 2009.

    2008

  • S. Modgil and T.J.M Bench-Capon. Integrating Object and Meta-level Value Based Argumentation. In: 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 08), pp 240-251, Toulouse, France, May 2008.

  • S. Modgil and H.Prakken. Applying Preferences to Dialogue Graphs. In: 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 08), pp 252-263, Toulouse, France, May 2008.

    • 2007

  • S. Modgil. An Argumentation Based Semantics for Agent Reasoning. In: Proc. Languages, methodologies and development tools for multi-agent systems, pp 37 - 53, Durham, UK, September 2007.

  • S. Modgil. An Abstract Theory of Argumentation That Accommodates Defeasible Reasoning About Preferences. In: 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 07), pp.648-659, Tunisia, September 2007.

  • P. Tolchinsky, K. Atkinson, P. McBurney, S. Modgil and U. Cortes. Agents Deliberating Over Action Proposals Using the ProCLAIM Model. In: 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 07), September 2007, Leipzig, Germany.

  • S. Modgil and J. McGinnis. Towards Characterising Argumentation Based Dialogue in the Argument Interchange Format. To appear in: Proc. 4th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2007), Hawaii, May, 2007.

    • 2006

  • Sanjay Modgil. Hierarchical Argumentation. In: Proc. 10th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2006), pp 319-332, Liverpool, UK, September 2006.

  • Sanjay Modgil. Value Based Argumentation in Hierarchical Argumentation Frameworks. In: Proc. 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 06), pp 297-308, Liverpool, UK 11th - 12th September 2006

  • P. Tolchinsky, S. Modgil, U. Cortes, and M.Sanchez-Marre. CBR and argument schemes for collaborative decision making. In: Proc. 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 06), IOS Press, pp 71-82, Liverpool, UK, September, 2006.

  • Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, Sanjay Modgil. Argumentation for Decision Support. Accepted for publication in: 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2006 (http://www.dexa.org), September 4-8, 2006, Krakow, Poland.

  • Steven Willmott, Gerard Vreeswijk, Carlos Chesnevar, Matthew South, Jarred McGinnis, Sanjay Modgil, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, and Guillermo Simari. Towards an Argument Interchange Format for Multi-Agent Systems. In: Proc. Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006 at AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

  • P. Tolchinsky, S. Modgil, and U. Cortés. Argument schemes and critical questions for heterogeneous agents to argue over the viability of a human organ. In AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium Series; Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, 2006.

    • 2005

  • S. Modgil, P. Tolchinsky, and U. Cortés. Towards formalising agent argumentation over the viability of human organs for transplantation. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence(MICAI 05), pages 928–938,Monterrey, Mexico, November 2005.

  • Modgil S. Nested Argumentation and its Application to Decision Making over Actions. In: Proc. Second International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2005 at AAMAS 2005), Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005.