Employment

• 2024 – present Associate Professor, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
• 2019 – 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, then Associate Researcher, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Education

• 2015 – 2019 PhD in Logic, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
• 2016 – 2017 Visiting PhD Student, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 2013 – 2015 MSc in Logic, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
• 2006 – 2010 BA in Software Engineering, Guangzhou University, China.

Publications

Selected Publications

• Weiwei Chen and Ulle Endriss, Preservation of Semantic Properties in Collective Argumentation: The Case of Aggregating Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Artificial Intelligence, 269: 27–48, 2019. DOI A foundational paper on collective argumentation and the preservation of semantic properties under aggregation.
• Weiwei Chen, Guaranteeing Admissibility of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with Rationality and Feasibility Constraints. Journal of Logic and Computation, 31(8): 2133–2158, 2021. DOI Studies admissibility preservation under rationality and feasibility constraints.
• Weiwei Chen, Collective Argumentation with Topological Restrictions: The Case of Aggregating Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Journal of Logic and Computation, 33(2): 319–343, 2023. DOI Shows how domain restrictions can help recover positive aggregation results.
• Weiwei Chen and Shier Ju, Dynamic Collective Argumentation: Constructing the Revision and Contraction Operators. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 172, 2024. DOI Develops dynamic revision and contraction operators for collective argumentation.
• Xiaolong Liu, Weiwei Chen, and Sylvie Doutre, Argumentation Semantics Based on Solid Admissibility and Preservation of Semantic Properties. Journal of Logic and Computation, 36(2): exag003, 2026. DOI Extends the preservation program through solid admissibility and related semantics.

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

• Xiaolong Liu, Weiwei Chen, and Sylvie Doutre, Argumentation Semantics Based on Solid Admissibility and Preservation of Semantic Properties. Journal of Logic and Computation, 36(2): exag003, 2026. DOI
• Xiaolong Liu and Weiwei Chen, Proportional Acceptability of Arguments. Proceedings of CLAR-2025. LNCS vol. 15712. Springer, pp. 254–271, 2025. DOI
• Weiwei Chen and Shier Ju, Dynamic Collective Argumentation: Constructing the Revision and Contraction Operators. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 172, 2024. DOI
• Xiaolong Liu and Weiwei Chen, On the Proportional Acceptability of Arguments in Abstract Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 2024.
• Zhe Yu, Shier Ju, and Weiwei Chen, Context-based Argumentation Frameworks and Multi-Agent Consensus Building. Journal of Logic and Computation, 34(2): 199–228, 2024. DOI
• Weiwei Chen, Collective Argumentation with Topological Restrictions: The Case of Aggregating Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Journal of Logic and Computation, 33(2): 319–343, 2023. DOI
• Weiwei Chen, Collective Argumentation with Topological Restrictions. Proceedings of CLAR-2021. LNCS vol. 13040. Springer, pp. 79–93, 2021. DOI
• Xiaolong Liu and Weiwei Chen, Solid Semantics for Abstract Argumentation Frameworks and the Preservation of Solid Semantic Properties. Proceedings of EUMAS-2021. LNCS vol. 12802. Springer, pp. 178–193, 2021. DOI
• Weiwei Chen, Collective Argumentation: The Case of Aggregating Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. Proceedings of TARK-2021. EPTCS 335: 87–102, 2021. DOI
• Weiwei Chen, Guaranteeing Admissibility of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with Rationality and Feasibility Constraints. Journal of Logic and Computation, 31(8): 2133–2158, 2021. DOI
• Xiaolong Liu and Weiwei Chen, Solid Semantics and Extension Aggregation Using Quota Rules under Integrity Constraints. Proceedings of AAMAS-2021, 2021.
• Weiwei Chen, Aggregation of Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. Proceedings of AAMAS-2020, 2020.
• Weiwei Chen, Preservation of Admissibility with Rationality and Feasibility Constraints. Proceedings of CLAR-2020. LNAI vol. 12061. Springer, pp. 245–258, 2020. DOI
• Weiwei Chen and Ulle Endriss, Preservation of Semantic Properties in Collective Argumentation: The Case of Aggregating Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Artificial Intelligence, 269: 27–48, 2019. DOI
• Weiwei Chen and Ulle Endriss, Aggregating Alternative Extensions of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks: Preservation Results for Quota Rules. Proceedings of COMMA-2018. Frontiers in AI and Applications vol. 305. IOS Press, pp. 425–436, 2018. DOI
• Weiwei Chen and Ulle Endriss, Preservation of Semantic Properties during the Aggregation of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Proceedings of TARK-2017. EPTCS 251: 118–133, 2017. DOI

Books and Book Chapters

• 陈伟伟, 《论辩聚合：社会选择理论的新视角》. 人民出版社, forthcoming.
• 刘小龙、陈伟伟, 《论证挖掘与论证形式化》第十二章. 鞠实儿等著, 科学出版社, 2022.
• 陈伟伟 and Ulle Endriss, 《融合与修正：跨文化交流的逻辑与认知研究》第五章. 鞠实儿等著, 经济科学出版社, 2020.

PC Membership

Selected Talks

• Constructing the Revision and Contraction Operators for Dynamic Collective Argumentation. The 3rd International Workshop on Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, Zhejiang, China, June 2024.
• Collective Argumentation: Static and Dynamic Perspectives. Seminar at PKU Center of Logic, Language, and Cognition, Beijing, China, Mar. 2024. [Event page]
• Dynamically Rational Collective Argumentation. The 3rd International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy, Beijing, China, May 2024. [Event page]
• Dynamic Collective Argumentation. Trends in Logic, Online, Nov. 2023. [Event page]
• Applying the Axiomatic Method to Collective Argumentation. Individual and Collective Reasoning Group Seminar, University of Luxembourg, Feb. 2022.
• Collective Argumentation with Topological Restrictions. CLAR-2021, Online, Oct. 2021. [Event page]
• Collective Argumentation: The Case of Aggregation of Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. TARK-2021, Online, June 2021.
• Aggregation of Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. AAMAS-2020, Online, May 2020.
• Aggregating Extensions of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Computational Social Choice Seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Sept. 2018. [Event page]
• What Can We Expect from Consensus Decision-making? Cool Logic Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Sept. 2017. [Event page]

Research Grants

• 公理化群体论辩的可能性和防操纵性研究. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, China, 2024A1515012540.
• 基于社会选择方法的论辩聚合理论研究. National Social Science Fund of China, 22FZXB093.
• 公理化群体论辩理论. Ministry of Education of China, Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund, 22YJC72040001.
• 形式论辩中的双极论辩框架与分级论辩语义聚合研究. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2019M663352.

Students

I welcome MA students interested in formal argumentation, social choice theory, logic in AI, computational models of argument, and collective decision-making.