Robust Argumentation Machines

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines, RATIO 2024, which took place in Bielefeld, Germany, during June 5-7, 2024.  The 20 full papers and 1 short paper included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:  Argument Mining; Debate Analysis and Deliberation; Argument Acquisition, Annotation and Quality Assessment; Computational Models of Argumentation; Interactive Argumentation, Recommendation and Personalization; and Argument Search and Retrieval.