[agents] SNAMAS at AISB 2010 - Call for papers

[Guido Boella]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
(PDF version http://snamas.di.unito.it/call.pdf )


SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM
( http://snamas.di.unito.it )
SNAMAS at AISB 2010 Convention
( http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/AISB2010.html )
29th  March - 1st  April 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

- Giulia Andrighetto (ISTC-CNR Rome)
- Guido Boella (University of Turin)
- Ugo Pagallo (University of Turin)
- Serena Villata (University of Turin)


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ABSTRACT

One of the most interesting research topics in the field of multiagent
systems is the definition
of models with the aim of representing social structures such as
organizations
and coalitions, to control the emergent behavior of open systems.
Organizations and
coalitions are composed by individuals that are related to each other
by different possible
kinds of relations such as dependencies on goals, conflicts on
resources, similar
beliefs and so on. One important issue is how to represent these
relations. Moreover,
like the human organizations, these social structures are
characterized also by an high
degree of dynamism.
In dealing with societal issues, the multiagent systems field took
inspiration mostly
from organizational theory in economics and legal theory, while less
attention is devoted
to the research area describing the relations among the individuals
inside human
organizations and their dynamics: social network analysis. Social
network analysis has
emerged as a key technique inmodern sociology, anthropology, social
psychology, communication
studies, information science, organizational studies, economics as
well as a
popular topic of study.
Despite the common object of study,multiagent systems and social
network analysis
use concepts like agents, dependencies, etc. which often have only
superficial similarities.
The aim of this symposium is to underline the differences and the
similarity points
between these social network analysis and multiagent systems in the
representation of
the social structures and their dynamics, and to promote the
interchange of knowledge
and methodologies among the two fields.

At AISB 2009 Convention, the Program Committee members Guido Boella,
Harko Verhagen, Giulia Andrighetto e Jaime Sichman
held the first SNAMAS Symposium.
This Symposium fits the AISB'09 Convention
theme ``Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems",
since both social networks analysis and multiagent systems
deal with the behavior of complex systems composed by many
agents and have among theirs topic adaptivity and emergence,
since it is not realistic to consider only top-down rigidly
designed social systems.
The invited speaker of the event was Prof. Kathleen M. Carley, an
international expert in the field of social network analysis and
dynamic network analysis.
The event was followed by a special issue of the Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory on "Social Networks and Multiagent
Systems"
with Editor-in-Chief: Kathleen M. Carley and Guest Editors: Giulia
Andrighetto, Guido Boella, Jaime Sichman, Harko Verhagen.

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TOPICS

Papers on the following non-exhaustive list of topics are solicited:
  - Emergent behaviour in multiagent systems and social networks
analysis
  - Simulation of social systems
  - Learning evolution and adaptation in multiagent systems and social
networks analysis
  - Artificial social systems
  - Societal aspects
  - Models of personality, emotions and social behaviour
  - Organizations in Multiagent systems and Social Networks

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INVITED SPEAKER

TBA

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2009.
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2010.
Camera ready version: TBA
Symposium: 29th March - 1st April 2010

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PAPER SUBMISSION

The guidelines for paper submission are as the following:

- The paper should be written in English.
- The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format
   (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html
  ).
- The paper should be in PDF format.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system 
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snamas2010
).
- A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of a
relevant journal.

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Patrice Caire, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy
Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy
Gustavo A. Gimenez Lugo, Federal Technological University of Parana,
Brasil
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Jaime Sichman, University of Sao Paolo, Brasil
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Pietro Terna, University of Turin, Italy
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden


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CONTACTS

For further inquiries please contact:
guido at di.unito.it

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