[agents] CFP: HAIS08 Special Session on Negotiation and Social Network Modelling

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SPECIAL SESSION ON HYBRID SYSTEMS BASED ON NEGOTIATION AND SOCIAL
NETWORK MODELLING
In conjunction with the 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial
Intelligence Systems (HAIS'08). Burgos, Spain, September of 2008.
http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/ss01-hais08/

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INTRODUCTION
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Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS) try to deal with the
complexity of real world phenomena, with a multidisciplinary approach
and a plurality of techniques. The complex systems where they are
applied cover biology, medicine, management, engineering, humanities...
all characterized by the difficulty of modelling their usual problems by
classical methods.
In this framework, this special session is aimed at discussing research
on HAIS working with social interactions, by using agents or any
artificial intelligence technique. Therefore, it will focus on social
simulation and dynamic social network systems. It also covers the HAIS
with the capability to hold a negotiation about a topic, together with
argumentation procedures as a way for reaching agreements during the
negotiation process.

Session encouraged topics include, but are not limited to:
• Social Networks in HAIS.
• HAIS for Argumentation and Negotiation.
• Agent-Based Social Simulation, specially using soft computing
techniques.
• Theoretical approaches with Social Network Analysis (e.g. studies on
blogosphere and virtual communities).
• Applications on virtual social networks (web 2.0, P2P, Orkut,
Myspace).
• Virtual and intelligent games based on artificial societies (like
RPGs).
• Other application domains: blogs, cultural aspects, web's fan club,
topic communities, opinion dynamics, diffusion networks, consumer
behaviour.

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CONTRIBUTIONS
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Original contributions are sought in the area of the topics covered by
this special session. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the
field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Every
submitted paper to HAIS'08 will be reviewed by at least two members of
the Program Committee.
Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template (only
MS-WORD format) (see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and
must be no more than eight (8) pages long, including figures and
bibliography. 
The papers must be directly submitted to the chair of this special
session (megamax8 at hotmail.com). 

The best papers of this Special Session will be included in a special
issue of the COMPUTATION AND SYSTEMS JOURNAL ISSN 1405-5546.

Contributions sent to this Special Session also have the chance to be
included in a special issue of the following journals:
INFORMATION SCIENCES Published by ELSEVIER ISSN: 0020-0255
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH (IJCIR)
ISSN: 0973-1873
Guest Editors: TBA

NOTICE: At least one author of each accepted paper must register in
order for the paper to be included in the HAIS 2008 Proceedings.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for papers: 30th April, 2008
Notification of papers acceptance: 23th May, 2008
Deadline for camera-ready papers: 13th June, 2008

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CHAIR/CO-CHAIR
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Alberto Ochoa - Technological Institute of León, Intelligent Systems
Group, (chair).
Samer Hassan - Universidad Complutense de Madrid / University of Surrey,
(co-chair).
Stella Heras - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, (co-chair).

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PROGRAM COMMITEE
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Halina Iztebegovic - Montenegro University.
Irina Döring - Volgogrado University.
Leandro Krug Wives - UFRGS, Brazil.
Dagmar Zuraevic - Sarajevo University.
Alessandra Spianetta - Cape Town University, Southafrica.
Simonné Suarent - Technical Univesity of Mauritius.
Taardemi Suaromi - Technical University of Oulu, Finland.
Czongor Sziladzi - Pécs University, Hungary.
Antonio Padméterakiris - Nicosia University, Cyprus.
Aliya Tatkedhek - Kalmykya University, Russia Federation.
Namri Löntsän - Oslo University, Norway.
Tenzil Kim - Pusan University, South Korea.

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Email address (chair): megamax8 at hotmail.com
Affiliation: Technological Institute of León (Intelligent Systems
Group).
Postal address: Mariano Rivapalacio #24, Col. Del Lago. Cuernavaca,
Morelos;
México.
Telephone number: (52) 477 7105200
Fax Number: (52) 477 7112072