a Special Session collocated with the 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems – PAAMS 2012
Salamanca, Spain, 28th - 30th March 2012
Aims and Scope Call For Papers Important Dates Submissions Publication Organizers Program Committee Accepted Papers
Research on multi-agent systems (MAS) has, in the last
years, devoted a strong attention to social issues such as trust, norms,
contracts, and incentives. Although several real-world evidences, as well as
literature from sociology and economics, point to the fact that these issues are
strongly correlated, such interconnections have not yet taken much attention
from the MAS research community, at least from a practical perspective. And yet,
a combination of social issues seems to be adequate to address application areas
of increasing importance, such as B2B contracting or social networks.
This special session intends to bring together MAS
researchers to specifically discuss the integration of these different social
concepts in MAS. Such integration can be studied from two complementary
perspectives: the macro-perspective, which concerns the design and development
of environments incorporating social infrastructures such as computational trust
models, normative structures and incentive-based mechanisms, in order to promote
cooperative behaviors among autonomous software agents; and the
micro-perspective, devoted to deliberative agent architectures capable of
combining the use of different societal issues, such as trust, norms and
incentives. The integration of these issues further raises the challenge of
understanding and modeling the interconnection between both perspectives in
order to install top-down/bottom-up loops to properly manage the evolution of
the concepts of these micro/macro levels.
Research contributions on the interplay between trust,
norms and/or incentives are welcome (both from a micro and/or macro
perspective), considering the following dimensions:
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Models and theories
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Scenarios and applications
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MAS frameworks, environments and tools
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MAS-based simulations
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Deliberative agent architectures
Downloadable Call For Papers: PDF and txt
Submission date: 10 November, 2011 Extended to 20 November, 2011
Notification date: 16 December, 2011
Paper ready date: 09 January, 2012
Conference dates: 28-30 March 2012
Papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series Springer template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the PAAMS 2012 conference management system (EasyChair). Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field.
At least one author is required to register at PAAMS 2012 and present the paper in the TINMAS special session in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published together with the PAAMS 2012 proceedings, in a volume of the Springer Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series.
Ana Paula
Rocha (University of Porto)
Henrique Lopes
Cardoso (University of Porto)
Olivier Boissier (ENSM Saint-Etienne)
Ramón Hermoso
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Daniel Villatoro (IIIA-CSIC)
Eugénio Oliveira (University of Porto)
Holger Billhardt (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Joana Urbano (University of Porto)
Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA-CSIC)
Laurent Vercouter (University of Rouen)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen)
Yao-Hua Tan (Delft University of Technology)
Rino Falcone, Cristiano Castelfranchi - Trust and Transitivity: How Trust-Transfer Works
Ramón Hermoso - A Reputation Framework Based on Stock Markets for Selecting Accurate Information Sources
Sofia Panagiotidi, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Wamberto Vasconcelos - Contextual Norm-Based Plan Evaluation via Answer Set Programming
Joana Urbano, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira - Trust and Normative Control in Multi-Agent Systems: An Empirical Study