[agents] NorMAS 2010 final call for papers

[Guido Boella]

Final 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 extended: January 29, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: February 20, 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- The paper should present unpublished work.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


-- 

Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Torino
Cso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino
Italy

tel +39 011 670 6820
fax +39 011 75 16 03
email guido at di.unito.it
web http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/