[agents] Call for Papers - Normative Multiagent Systems 2010

[Harko Verhagen]

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Call for papers
Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS 2010)
29th March– 30th March 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester
An AISB2010 Symposium

Workshop description
Normative systems are “systems in the behavior of which norms play a 
role and which need normative concepts in order to be described or 
specified.” A normative multi-agent system combines models for normative 
systems (dealing for example with obligations, permissions and 
prohibitions) with models for multi-agent systems. Normative multi-agent 
systems provide a promising model for human and artificial agent 
co-ordination, because they integrate norms and individual intelligence. 
They are a prime example of the use of sociological theories in 
multi-agent systems, and therefore of the relation between agent theory 
- both multi-agent systems and autonomous agents - and the social 
sciences - sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science, etc.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Norm representation:
- Formal languages for the representation of norms
- Legal reasoning
- Norm-aware cognitive architectures

* Norm dynamics:
- Formal models of the evolution of normative systems
- Norm creation and propagation
- Norm emergence

* Socio-economical foundations:
- Models of norm-related sociological notions (e.g., blame)
- Norms and social welfare
- Norm enforcement
- Institutions

* NorMAS applications

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2010.
Camera ready version: TBA
Symposium: 29th March - 30th March 2010

After the symposium a selection of papers will be published in a special 
issue of a relevant journal.

Paper Submission Guidelines
- 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.
- The paper should present unpublished work.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system Easychair 
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas2010).

Program Committee
Thomas Agotnes, Bergen University College, Norway
Giulia Andrighetto, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies 
(ISTC), Italy
Guido Boella, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and 
Technologies (ISTC), Italy
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden (chair)
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia
Davide Grossi, ILLC University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (chair)
Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Sanjay Modgil , King’s College, UK
Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Pablo Noriega, IIIA - CSIC - Barcelona, Spain
Gabriella Pigozzi, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair)

Previous NorMAS Meetings
NorMAS05 at AISB2005, selection of papers published in CMOT (vol 12, no 
2-3, 2006)
NorMAS07 at Dagstuhl, selection of papers published in JAAMAS (vol 17, no 
1, 2008)
NorMAS08 at Deon08, selection of papers to be published in Logic Journal of 
the IGPL
NorMAS09 at Dagstuhl, selection of papers to be published in Journal of 
Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic

Contact
For further inquiries please contact Harko Verhagen via 
verhagen at dsv.su.se. The workshop website is located at:
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grossi/NorMAS10Site/home.html