The first edition of CMNA was held as a special session of the 1st International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) on May 29th, 2001 at Hilton San Francisco and Towers, San Francisco, USA.

Proceedings of ICCS, and therefore CMNA I papers, were published in V. Alexandrov et al (eds.) Computational Science - ICCS 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2073, Springer-Verlag

The accepted papers were:

# "GEA: a Complete, Modular System for Generating Evaluative Arguments"

Giuseppe Carenini

# "Exploiting Uncertainty and Incomplete Knowledge in Deceptive Argumentation"

Valeria Carofiglio, Fiorella de Rosis

# "Argumentation in Explanations to Logical Problems"

Armin Fiedler, Helmut Horacek

# "Analysis of the Argumentative Effect of Evaluative Semantics in Natural Language"

Serge Gavenko

# "Getting Good Value: Facts, Values and Goals in Computational Linguistics"

Michael A. Gilbert

# "An Empirical Study of Multimedia Argumentation"

Nancy Green