[agents] Deadline extension special issue on "Normative Multiagent Systems"

[Guido Boella]

EXTENDED DEADLINE: deadline for submissions has been extended to October 6

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

        Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic

Special issue on "Normative Multiagent Systems"
Editors-in-Chief: Dov Gabbay, Joerg Siekmann
Guest Editors: Guido Boella, Pablo Noriega, Gabriella Pigozzi, Harko
Verhagen

It follows three other special issues on the same topic:

"Special issue of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory on
Normative Multiagent Systems"

"Special issue of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
on Normative Multiagent Systems"

"Special issue of Logic Journal of the IGPL on Normative Multiagent Systems"

Norms play a central role in many social phenomena such as coordination,
cooperation, and decision-making. 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.

Please consult the following submission guidelines:
_http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622851/authorinstructions#24000_ 
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622851/authorinstructions%2324000>
There is no a-priori set page limit, but please avoid overlong papers.

The deadline for submissions is

September 15, 2009

Authors should submit their papers electronically using the website:
_http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas09sp_

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 Journal of Algorithms in Cognition,
Informatics and Logic is available here.


URL of the CFP: _http://icr.uni.lu/normas09sp-cfp_


Guido Boella (_guido at di.unito.it_ <mailto:guido at di.unito.it>)

Pablo Noriega (_pablo at iiia.csic.es_ <mailto:pablo at iiia.csic.es>)

Gabriella Pigozzi (_gabriella.pigozzi at uni.lu_ 
<mailto:gabriella.pigozzi at uni.lu>)

Harko Verhagen (_verhagen at dsv.su.se_ <mailto:verhagen at dsv.su.se>)