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This report summarizes the outcomes of the Dagstuhl Seminar 22432: "Towards a Unified Model of Scholarly Argumentation." The purpose of this Seminar was to enable robust advances in argumentation technology by collecting and collaborating on use cases in scholarly and biomedical discourse and working on a foundational model for argumentation in science and healthcare. Most importantly, the seminar served to develop a multidisciplinary, international research community devoted to building and maintaining principles, tools, and models for studying scholarly argumentation. Over the course of the seminar week, the seminar laid the foundation of a shared formalism, illuminated important scholarly use cases for argumentation modeling, and identified directions for future exploration.

The dissemination of knowledge derived from research and scholarship has a fundamental impact on the ways in which society develops and progresses, and at the same time it feeds back to improve subsequent research and scholarship. Here, as in so many other areas of human activity, the internet is changing the way things work; two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. But the use of this technology remains limited. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. This document highlights the findings of the Force11 workshop on the Future of Research Communication held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in August 2011: it summarizes a number of key problems facing scholarly publishing today, and presents a vision that addresses these problems, proposing concrete steps that key stakeholders can take to improve the state of scholarly publishing.

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 11331 ``The Future of Research Communication''. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers from these different disciplines, whose core research goal is changing the formats, standards, and means by which we communicate science.