| TINMAS – Trust, Incentives and Norms in open Multi-Agent Systems |
| |
| http://liacc.fe.up.pt/tinmas2012/ |
| |
| *** CALL-FOR-PAPERS *** |
| |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
collocated with PAAMS 2012 (http://www.paams.net/)
Salamanca, Spain, 28th - 30th March 2012
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:
- Models and theories
- Scenarios and applications
- MAS frameworks, environments and tools
- MAS-based simulations
- Deliberative agent architectures
- Submission date: 10 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/4240),
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
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=paams12ss).
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 (http://www.springer.com/series/4240).
Ana Paula Rocha (University of Porto) – [email protected]
Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto) – [email protected]
Olivier Boissier (ENSM Saint-Etienne) – [email protected]
Ramón Hermoso (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) – [email protected]
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)