1st International Conference on Reputation (ICORE 2009)
Gargonza, Italy, March 18-20, 2009
IMPORTANT DATES
** Abstract submission: September 15, 2008 **
Paper submission: October 1st, 2008
Notification: November 10, 2008
Camera Ready Version of Accepted Papers: December 10, 2008
Conference: March 18-20, 2009
Submission is in two stages: abstract first (one page), then full paper.
The first International Conference on Reputation: Theory and
Technology aims to become a point of convergence in the
multidisciplinary study of reputation.
The role of reputation as a social artefact and its practical
applications are coming more and more clearly to the attention of the scientific community. The study of reputation and gossip is important in many fields of the social sciences, for example organization science, policy-making, (e-)governance, cultural evolution, social dilemmas, socio-dynamics, and sociobiology. Interest in reputation is increasing in philosophy, psychology, social psychology, sociology, and cognitive science; formal models appear in game theoretical, mathematical, and physics journals; computational reputation systems are among the most studied subjects in multi-agent technology and social simulations.
All this attention is timely, since reputation is an old concept for answering a new challenge, the regulation of complex, global,
networked societies. Innovation demands that the potential of old
instruments are fully understood and exploited, in order to be
incorporated into novel, intelligent technologies.
However, there is a number of ad hoc models and little integration of instruments for the implementation, management, and optimisation of reputation. On the one hand, entrepreneurs and policy makers deem it possible to manage corporate and firm reputation without accessing a solid, general and integrated body of scientific knowledge on the subject. On the other hand, researchers believe they can discuss, design and implement reputation systems without investigating what properties, requirements, and dynamics of reputation in natural
societies are, and why they evolved.
Reputation deserves a full role as a scientific topic, a focus on its specificities, i.e., its potential as preventive social knowledge and selective mechanism of transmission.
TOPICS
We invite papers from all scientific communities working on
reputation, including multi-agent systems, social simulation,
economics, organisation science and management, e-governance/learning/business, virtual societies and markets, social cognition, (evolutionary) game theory, social psychology, sociology, social and collective dilemmas, social dynamics, cultural evolution, and business ethics.
Topics for ICORE 2009 include but are not limited to:
* Theory of reputation
* Simulation of reputation
* Computational models of reputation
* Agent reputation models
* Ontologies of reputation
* Logical formalization of reputation
* Experimental evidence of reputation diffusion
* Reputation-based e-government, e-learning, e-business
* Reputation in p2p systems
* Reputation in grid environments
* Reputation for partner selection
* Incentives in reputation mechanisms
* Image and reputation
* Reputation management and optimisation
* Reputation and social networks
* Reputation and norms
* Reputation and altruism, reciprocity, and cooperation
* Reputation and trust
* Reputation for sabotage tolerance in large-scale applications
* Reputation and exchange
* Reputation and institutions
* Reputation and social capital
* Corporate and firm reputation
SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS
See the conference website (http://www.reputation09.net) for detailed information on how to submit papers.
Submission is in two steps: abstract first (one page), then full
paper. See important dates above.
All submissions should be no longer than 15 pages, in pdf format,
using the (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors)
Springer LNCS style.
REVIEW CRITERIA
Papers should present novel ideas related to reputation, clearly
motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
We expect claims to be substantiated by theoretical or formal
analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on.
Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application
papers are expected to address an indication of the real world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or superiority to alternative approaches.
SPONSORS
The conference is organized with the support of the eRep project
under the 6th FP of the European Community.