@Article{bench-capon07a,
  author =	 {T.J.M. Bench-Capon and Paul E. Dunne},
  title =	 {Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence},
  journal =	 {Artificial Intelligence},
  year =	 2007,
  volume =	 171,
  number =	 {10--15},
  pages =	 {619--641},
  abstract =	 {Over the last ten years, argumentation has come to
                  be increasingly central as a core study within
                  Artificial Intelligence (AI). The articles forming
                  this volume reflect a variety of important trends,
                  developments, and applications covering a range of
                  current topics relating to the theory and
                  applications of argumentation. Our aims in this
                  introduction are, firstly, to place these
                  contributions in the context of the historical
                  foundations of argumentation in AI and,
                  subsequently, to discuss a number of themes that
                  have emerged in recent years resulting in a
                  significant broadening of the areas in which
                  argumentation based methods are used. We begin by
                  presenting a brief overview of the issues of
                  interest within the classical study of
                  argumentation: in particular, its relationship—in
                  terms of both similarities and important differences
                  —to traditional concepts of logical reasoning and
                  mathematical proof. We continue by outlining how a
                  number of foundational contributions provided the
                  basis for the formulation of argumentation models
                  and their promotion in AI related settings and then
                  consider a number of new themes that have emerged in
                  recent years, many of which provide the principal
                  topics of the research presented in this volume.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/bench-capon07a.pdf},
  doi = 	 {10.1016/j.artint.2007.05.001 }
}