[agents] ICORE 09 - First Announcement and Call for Papers

[Mario Paolucci]

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                   1st International Conference on
                            Reputation
                           (ICORE 2009)

                 Gargonza, Italy, March 18-20, 2009

                        www.reputation09.net


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.

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.



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


SPONSORS

The conference is organized with the support of the eRep project
<http://megatron.iiia.csic.es/eRep> under the 6th FP of the European
Community.