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

[Gabriella Pigozzi]

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%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.

URL of the CFP: http://icr.uni.lu/normas09sp-cfp

Guido Boella (guido at di.unito.it)
Pablo Noriega (pablo at iiia.csic.es)
Gabriella Pigozzi (gabriella.pigozzi at uni.lu)
Harko Verhagen (verhagen at dsv.su.se)