[agents] CFP: Special issue of Logic Journal of IGPL on Normative Multiagent Systems

[Guido Boella]

[Our apologies for possible cross-postings]

URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/normas09sp-cfp.html


                 CALL FOR PAPERS

              Logic Journal of the IGPL

Special issue on "Normative Multiagent Systems"

It follows two other special issues on the same topic:

"Special issue of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory on
Normative Multiagent Systems" <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10588-006-9537-7>

"Special issue of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
on Normative Multiagent Systems"
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/t3051h188473/?p=2fa86eac1fd64175bcd89f0dd310ca36&pi=0>

Norms play a central role in many social phenomena such as coordination,
cooperation, decision-making, and so on.  Norms provide an essential
basis for modeling, engineering, and understanding systems of artificial
or human agents.  Norms yield structure and predictability in systems
that are other loosely structured and support the autonomy of the
participants.

The study of norms in multiagent systems combines theories and
frameworks for normative systems with those of multiagent systems. The
study of norms in multiagent systems is a prime example of the use of
sociological theories in multiagent systems, and therefore of the
relation between agent theory and the social sciences, broadly construed
to include sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science, among others.

Particular topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    * Multiagent or society level:
          o balancing dynamics and statics at the agent (micro) and
agent society (macro) level
          o coordination based on normative multiagent systems
          o emergence of conventions, norms, roles, and normative
multiagent systems
          o combining conventions with regulative, permissive,
constitutive and other types of norms
          o relation between NorMAS and contracts, security, and
(electronic) institutions
          o commitments, organizations, and norms
          o commitments, protocols and Agent Communication Languages
    * Agent level:
          o alternatives to and extensions of the homo economicus and
BDI logics
          o extending logical frameworks to encompass norms in agent
decision making
          o how to implement theories of norms in artificial agents
          o policies and commitments
    * Applications of NorMAS:
          o multiagent social simulation models containing norms
          o mixing artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems

We welcome both theoretical work (formal models, representations,
specifications, logics, verification) and implementation-oriented work
(architectures, programming languages, design models, simulations,
prototype systems) on these specific topics.

All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal
criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously
unpublished, research papers written in English.

Submissions should be and formatted to fit within a text area of 16cm
wide by 22cm high with 11pt Times font and an interline spacing of 15pt.
There is no a-priori set page limit, but please avoid overlong papers.
The deadline for submissions is

November 30, 2008

Authors should submit their papers electronically using the website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas08sp

The Journal will publish the special issue as soon as camera ready
versions will be ready at the end of the review process.

If you intend to submit a paper for this special issue, please notify us
about your intention by email.

If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
editors of the special issue.

Further information on the Logic Journal of the IGPL is available at
<http://jigpal.oxfordjournals.org/>


URL of the CFP: http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/normas09sp-cfp.html


Guido Boella (guido at di.unito.it)

Gabriella Pigozzi (gabriella.pigozzi at uni.lu)

Munindar Singh (singh at ncsu.edu)

Harko Verhagen (verhagen at dsv.su.se)