Serena Villata

Publications

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PhD Thesis (defended January 2010)

• Meta-Argumentation for Multiagent Systems: Coalition Formation, Merging Views, Subsumption Relation and Dependence Networks.

Journals

• Baroni P., Boella G., Cerutti F., Giacomin M., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  On the Input/Output behavior of argumentation frameworks.
  Artif. Intell. 217: 144-197. Elsevier. 2014.
  
  
• Paglieri F., Villata S., Tettamanzi A., Falcone R., da Costa Pereira C., Castelfranchi C.
  Trusting the messenger because of the message:
  feedback dynamics from information quality to source evaluation.
  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer. 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E. and Villata S.
  A Natural Language Bipolar Argumentation Approach to Support Users in Online Debate Interactions.
  Argument & Computation 4(3): 209-230. Taylor & Francis. 2013.
  
  
• Villata S., Costabello L., Delaforge N., Gandon F.
  A Social Semantic Web Access Control Model.
  Journal on Data Semantics 2(1): 21-36, Springer. 2013.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L.
  A Socio-Cognitive Model of Trust using Argumentation Theory.
  International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 54(4): 541-559, Elsevier. 2013.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., Gabbay D.M., Hulstijn J., van der Torre L.
  A Logic of Argumentation for Specification and Verification of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks.
  Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 66(1-4): 199-230, Springer. 2012.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L.
  Modelling Defeasible and Prioritized Support in Bipolar Argumentation.
  Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 66(1-4): 163-197, Springer. 2012.
  
  
• Sauro L. and Villata S.
  Dependency in Cooperative Boolean Games
  Journal of Logic and Computation 23(2): 425-444, Oxford University. 2013.
  
  
• Villata S.
  A Normative Multiagent Approach to Requirements Engineering
  The Logic Journal of the IGPL, vol. 18(1), p. 245-274, 2010.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Meta-argumentation Modelling I: Methodology and Techniques
  Studia Logica, vol. 93(1), p. 297-355, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Analyzing Cooperation in Iterative Social Network Design
  Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 15(13); p. 2676-2700, 2009.
  
  

International Conference Proceedings

• Benlamine S., Chaouachi M., Villata S., Cabrio E., Frasson C., Gandon F.
  Emotions in Argumentation: an Empirical Evaluation
  24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015). AAAI, 2015.
  
  
• da Costa Pereira C., Tettamanzi A., Villata S.
  A Computational Model of Trust Based on Message Content and Source
  14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015); p. 1849-1850, IFAAMAS, 2015.
  
  
• Cardellino C., Villata S., Alonso Alemany L., Cabrio E.
  Information Extraction with Active Learning: A Case Study in Legal Text
  16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2015), LNCS, vol. 9042, Springer; p. 483-494, 2015.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S.
  NoDE: A Benchmark of Natural Language Arguments
  5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 266, IOS Press; p. 449-450, 2015.
  
  
• van der Torre L., Villata S.
  An ASPIC-based Legal Argumentation Framework for Deontic Reasoning
  5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 266, IOS Press; p. 421-432, 2015.
  
  
• Mirbel I., Villata S.
  An Argumentation-based Support System for Requirements Reconciliation
  5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 266, IOS Press; p. 467-468, 2015.
  
  
• Rodriguez Doncel V., Villata S., Gomez-Perez A.
  A dataset of RDF licenses
  27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 271, IOS Press; p. 187-188, 2014.
  
  
• Ahmed J., Governatori G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Social Interaction Based Audience Segregation for Online Social Networks
  1st European Conference on Social Intelligence (ECSI 2014), CEUR Proceedings; p. 186-197, 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Palmero Aprosio A., Villata S.
  These Are Your Rights - A Natural Language Processing Approach to Automated RDF Licenses Generation
  11th European Conference on Semantic Web (ESWC 2014), LNCS Springer, vol. 8465; p. 255-269, 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Palmero Aprosio A., Villata S.
  Reconciling Information in DBpedia through a Question Answering System
  13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) - Posters & Demos, vol. 1272; p. 49-52, 2014.
  
  
• Governatori G., Lam H., Rotolo N., Villata S., Atemezing G., Gandon F.
  LIVE: a Tool for Checking Licenses Compatibility between Vocabularies and Data
  13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) - Posters & Demos, vol. 1272; p. 77-80, 2014.
  
  
• Cardellino C., Villata S., Gandon F., Governatori G., Lam H., Rotolo N.
  Licentia: a Tool for Supporting Users in Data Licensing on the Web of Data
  13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014) - Posters & Demos, vol. 1272; p. 277-280, 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S., Cojan J., Gandon F.
  Classifying Inconsistencies in DBpedia Multilingual Chapters
  9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014). 2014.
  
  
• Governatori G., Lam H., Rotolo A., Villata S., Gandon F.
  Heuristics for Licenses Composition
  26th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2013). IOS Press, 2013.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Tonelli S., Villata S.
  A Natural Language Account for Argumentation Schemes.
  13th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2013), LNCS, vol. 8249, Springer; p. 181-192, 2013.
  
  
• Governatori G., Rotolo A., Villata S., Gandon F.
  One License to Compose Them All: a Deontic Logic Approach to Data Licensing on the Web of Data
  12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), LNCS, vol. 8218; p. 151-166, 2013.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Cojan J., Villata S., Gandon F.
  Hunting for Inconsistencies in Multilingual DBpedia with QAKiS.
  12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) - Posters & Demos, vol. 1035; p. 69-72, 2013.
  
  
• Caire P., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Argumentation Theoretic Foundations for Abstract Dependence Networks
  2nd International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2013), LNCS, vol. 8068; p. 180-194, 2013.
  BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• Rotolo A., Villata S., Gandon F.
  A Deontic Logic Semantics for Licenses Composition in the Web of Data
  14th International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2013), 2013.
  
  
• Costabello L., Villata S., Rocha O. R., Gandon F.
  Access Control for HTTP Operations on Linked Data.
  10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), LNCS, vol. 7882; p. 185-199, 2013.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S., Gandon F.
  A Support Framework for Argumentative Discussions Management in the Web.
  10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), LNCS, vol. 7882; p. 412-426, 2013.
  BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• Villata S., Gandon F.
  Towards Licenses Compatibility and Composition in the Web of Data.
  11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Poster session, 2012.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S.
  Generating Abstract Arguments: a Natural Language Approach.
  4th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012), p. 454-461, 2012.
  
  
• Baroni P., Boella G., Cerutti F., Giacomin M., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  On Input/Output Argumentation Frameworks.
  4th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012), p. 358-365, 2012.
  
  
• Boella G., Caire P., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Dependence Networks for Agreement Technologies
  1st International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012), 2012.
  
  
• Costabello L., Villata S., Gandon F.
  Context-Aware Access Control for RDF Graph Stores.
  20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), p. 282-287, 2012.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S.
  Natural Language Arguments: A Combined Approach.
  20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), p. 205-210, 2012.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S.
  Combining Textual Entailment and Argumentation Theory for Supporting Online Debates Interactions.
  50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), p. 208-212, 2012.
  
  
• Colombo Tosatto S., Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Visualizing Normative Systems: an Abstract Approach.
  11th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON 2012), p. 16-30, 2012.
  
  
• Costabello L., Villata S., Delaforge N., Gandon F.
  SHI3LD: an Access Con- trol Framework for the Mobile Web of Data.
  23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HYPERTEXT 2012), p. 311-312, 2012.
  
  
• Costabello L., Villata S., Delaforge N., Gandon F.
  Ubiquitous Access Control for SPARQL Endpoints: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges.
  International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), p. 487-488, 2012.
  
  
• Colombo Tosatto S., Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Abstract Normative Systems: Semantics and Proof Theory.
  13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012), 2012.
  
  
• da Costa Pereira C., Tettamanzi A., Villata S.
  Graded Reinstatement in Belief Revision
  10th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2011), p. 58-61, 2011.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., van der Torre L.
  Attack Semantics for Abstract Argumentation
  22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), IJCAI/AAAI, p. 406-413, 2011.
  
  
• da Costa Pereira C., Tettamanzi A., Villata S.
  Changing One's Mind: Erase or Rewind? Possibilistic Belief Revision with Fuzzy Argumentation Based on Trust
  22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), IJCAI/AAAI, p. 164-171, 2011.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L.
  Arguing about the Trustworthiness of the Information Sources
  11th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2011) LNCS, vol. 6717; p. 74-85, 2011.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D.M., Perotti A., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Argumentative Agents Negotiating on Potential Attacks
  5th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2011) LNCS, vol. 6682; p. 280-290, 2011.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D. M., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Arguing about Trust in Multiagent Systems.
  11th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2010), 2010.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D.M., Perotti A., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Coalition Formation via Negotiation in Multiagent Systems with Voluntary Attacks.
  22th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2010), 2010.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D. M., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Support in Abstract Argumentation.
  3rd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, p. 40-51, 2010.
  
  
• Sauro L. and Villata S.
  Optimizing the Core Computation with Social Networks.
  36th Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2010).
  
  
• van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Four Ways to Change Coalitions: Agents, Dependencies, Norms and Internal Dynamics.
  35th Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2009), p. 19-24, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., Genovese V., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Checking Consistency in role oriented Dependence Networks.
  21th Belgian - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2009), p. 27-34, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  On the Acceptability of Meta-arguments.
  2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009), IEEE, p. 259-262, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Four measures for the dynamics of coalitions in social networks.
  20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HYPERTEXT 2009), ACM, p. 361-362, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Adaptive Coalitions in Multiagent Systems.
  2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008), IEEE, p. 461-462, 2008.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Institutional Social Networks for Ambient Intelligence.
  35th Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Social Behavior Society (AISB 2008), vol. 8, p. 1-6, 2008.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Attack Relations among Dynamic Coalitions.
  20th Belgian - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008), p. 25-32, 2008.
  
  
• Villata S.
  Towards Social Dynamic Dependence Networks for Institutions.
  4th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS 2008). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, p. 187-198, 2008.
  
  
• Caire P., Villata S., van der Torre L., Boella G.
  Conviviality masks in multiagent systems.
  7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), p. 1265-1268, 2008.
  
  
• Ienco D., Villata S., Bosco C.
  Automatic extraction of subcategorization frames for Italian.
  6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2094-2100, 2008.
  
  
• Lesmo L., Robaldo L., Villata S.
  Meaning,Text theory and Dependency Tree Semantics: an account of Underspecification.
  3rd International Conference on the Meaning Text Theory (MTT 2007), 2007.
  
  

Workshops with Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) or in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Proceedings

• Kontarinis D., Bonzon E., Maudet N., Perotti A., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Rewriting Rules for the Computation of Goal-Oriented Changes in an Argumentation System
  14th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV), LNCS, vol. 8143; p. 51-68, 2013.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Tonelli S., Villata S.
  From Discourse Analysis to Argumentation Schemes and back: Relations and Differences
  14th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIV), LNCS, vol. 8143; p. 1-17, 2013.
  
  
• Mirbel I., Villata S.
  Enhancing Goal-Based Requirements Consistency: An Argumentation-Based Approach
  13th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA XIII)
  LNCS, vol. 7486; p. 110-127, 2012.
  
  
• Villata S., Delaforge N., Gandon F., Gyrard A.
  An Access Control Model for Linked Data
  7th International IFIP Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS 2011)
  LNCS, vol. 7046; p. 454-463, 2011.
  
  
• Rienstra T., Perotti A., Villata S., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L., Boella G.
  Multi-sorted Argumentation
  1st International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2011)
  LNAI, vol. 7132; p. 215-231, 2012.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D.M., Perotti A., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Conditional Labelling for Abstract Argumentation
  1st International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2011)
  LNAI, vol. 7132; p. 232-248, 2012.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Conditional Dependence Networks in Requirements Engineering.
  LNCS, vol. 6069; p. 3-18, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., Broersen J., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Representing Excuses in Social Dependence Networks.
  LNCS, vol. 5883; p. 365-374, 2009.
  
  
• Sauro L., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Dependency in Cooperative Boolean Games.
  LNCS, vol. 5559; p. 1-10, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents.
  LNCS, vol. 5357; p. 78-85, 2008.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Social Viewpoints for Arguing about Coalitions.
  LNCS, vol. 5357; p. 66-77, 2008.
  
  

Book Chapters

• Budzynska K., Villata S.
  Natural Language Argumentation.
  In Handbook of Formal Argumentation, College Publications. Baroni, Pietro; Gabbay, Dov; Giacomin, Massimiliano; and van der Torre Leendert (Eds.), To Appear.
  
  
• Villata S., Costabello L., Gandon F., Faron-Zucker C., Buffa M.
  Social Semantic Network-based Access Control.
  In Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks, Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Chbeir, Richard and Al Bouna, Bechara (Eds.), p. 157-191. Springer, 2013.
  
  
• Oren N., Rotolo N., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  Norms and Argumentation.
  In Handbook on Agreement Technologies, p. 233-249. Law, Governance and Technology Series 8, 2012.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., Gabbay D.M., van der Torre L.
  A Cognitive Model of Conflicts in Trust using Argumentation
  In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone & M. Miceli (Eds.), The goals of cognition. Essays in honor of Cristiano Castelfranchi. London: College Publications, 2012.
  
  

Editor

• Bulling N., van der Torre L., Villata S., Jamroga W., Vasconcelos W. (Eds.)
  Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems - 15th International Workshop, CLIMA XV, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8624, Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3- 319-09763-3.
  
  
• Villata S., Peroni S., Palmirani M. (Eds.)
  Semantic Web for the Law and Second Doctoral Consortium Workshops co-located with 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2014), Krakow, Poland, December 10-12, 2014. Proceedings. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1296, ISSN 1613-0073.
  
  

International Workshop Proceedings

• Tounsi M., Faron-Zucker C., Zucker A., Villata S., Cabrio E.
  Studying the History of Pre-Modern Zoology with Linked Data and Vocabularies
  1st International Workshop Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage (SW4SHD 2015), CEUR Workshop Proceedings; p. 7-14, 2015.
  
  
• Villata S., Zucker A.
  Towards a Better Understanding of Critiques about Ancient Texts using Argumentation
  1st International Workshop Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage (SW4SHD 2015), CEUR Workshop Proceedings; p. 23-28, 2015.
  
  
• Governatori G., Lam H., Rotolo N., Villata S., Atemezing G., Gandon F.
  Checking Licenses Compatibility between Vocabularies and Data
  5th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2014), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Villata S.
  Towards a Benchmark of Natural Language Arguments
  15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014), CoRR abs/1405.0941, 2014.
  
  
• Cabrio E., Cojan J., Villata S., Gandon F.
  Argumentation-based Inconsistencies Detection for Question-Answering over DBpedia.
  1st International Workshop on NLP and DBpedia (NLP&DBpedia 2013), CEUR Procs vol. 1064, 2013.
  
  
• Villata S., Gandon F.
  Licenses Compatibility and Composition in the Web of Data.
  3rd International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2012), CEUR Procs vol. 905, 2012.
  
  
• Scharffe F., Euzenat J., Villata S., Troncy R., Hamdi F., Bucher B., Cotton F., Gandon F., Fan Z., Bihanic L., Kepeklian G., Atemezing G., Vandenbussche P., Vatant B.
  Enabling linked-data publication with the Datalift Platform.
  AAAI 2012 Workshop on Semantic Cities, 2012.
  
  
• Villata S., Paglieri F., Tettamanzi A., Falcone R., da Costa Pereira C., Castelfranchi C.
  Trusting the Messenger and the Message.
  15th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (TRUST 2012), 2012.
  
  
• Costabello L., Villata S., Delaforge N., Gandon F.
  Linked Data Access Goes Mobile: Context-Aware Authorization for Graph Stores.
  5th International Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW 2012), co-located with WWW 2012, 2012.
  
  
• Villata S., Delaforge N., Gandon F., Gyrard A.
  Social Semantic Web Access Control.
  4th International Workshop Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2011), p. 48-59, 2011.
  
  
• Villata S., Boella G., van der Torre L.
  Argumentation Patterns
  8th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2011), p. 133-150, 2011.
  
  
• Boella G., Gabbay D. M., Villata S.
  Subsumption and Count as Relation in Argument Ontologies.
  13th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2010), 2010.
  
  
• Villata S.
  NorMAS-RE: a Normative Multiagent Approach to Requirements Engineering.
  4th International Workshop on Normative Multi-Agent Systems, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, vol. 09121, p. 1-32, 2009.
  
  
• Boella G., van der Torre L., Villata S.
  A Normative Multiagent Approach to Requirements Engineering.
  Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems (COIN 2009 co-located with AAMAS 2009), 2009.
  
  
• Villata S.
  Institutional Social Dynamic Dependence Networks.
  3rd International Workshop on Normative Multiagent Systems, p. 201-216, 2008.
  
  

Video

• Paper companion video
  Changing One's Mind: Erase or Rewind? Possibilistic Belief Revision with Fuzzy Argumentation Based on Trust
  22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011).