Anderson, D. & Aakhus, M. (2012, July). The work of association management as communication design practice: An investigation of managing-as-designing. Presented at the European Group on  Organization annual conference, Helsinki Finland.  

Aakhus, M., Muresan, S., Wacholder, N. (2013). Integrating natural language processing and pragmatic argumentation theories for argumentation support. Presented at OSSA 10 Virtues of Argument, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.  

Aakhus, M. & Bzdak, M. (2013).  Communication Design Logics for Dialogue and Stakeholder Engagement:  The Shared Value Model and its Alternatives. Presented at the International Communication  Association Preconference: Governance through communication: Stakeholder engagement,  dialogue, and corporate social responsibility. Edinburgh, UK. 

Aakhus, M. & Ziek, P. (2013). The mediation of stakeholder relations and the generation of social,  environmental, and economic issues. Presented at the International Communication Association  Preconference: CSR and Communication – Extending the Agenda. London, UK. 

Aakhus, M., Muresan, S., & Wacholder, N. (2013, November). Some considerations regarding natural language processing in designing argumentation support. Paper presented at the Annual  Convention of the National Communication Association, Washington, D.C. 

Aakhus, M. & Anderson, D. (2013, November). Design and Professional Practice. Paper presented at the  Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Washington, D.C.   

Ghosh, D., Muresan, S., Wacholder, N., Aakhus, M., & Mitsui, M. (2014, June). Analyzing Argumentative  Discourse Units in Online Interactions. To be presented at the First Workshop on Argumentation  Mining, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Baltimore, MD.  

Aakhus, M., Ziek, P., & Dadlani, P. (2014, June). The architecture of arguing on the web: Argument entrepreneurialism and argumentation-as-a-service. To be presented at the Arguing on the Web 2.0  Workshop, Amsterdam.

Aakhus, M. & Lewinski, M. (2014, June). Toward polylogical analysis of argumentation: Analyzing disagreement space in the public deliberation about fracking. To be presented at the 8th  International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam. 

Aakhus, M., Ziek, P., & Dadlani, P. (2014, November). Modeling the argumentative roles of organizations in public controversy: The case of Marcellus Shale gas production. Presented at the National  Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago.