[agents] CfP: Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Social Computing

[Amit Chopra]

                      The 1st International Workshop on
	REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FOR SOCIAL COMPUTING
			            (RESC'11)

			Co-located with the
     19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
				
		    August 29, 2011, Trento, Italy
	        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/resc11/	

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			   CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Web was conceptualized as a data-sharing service. It has since
evolved into a platform for conducting business transactions. Today,
we are witnessing it evolve again into a social platform, where
autonomous actors -- humans, organizations, and their software
surrogates -- engage each other in social interactions (business,
personal, or otherwise).

In short, we are moving away from a data-centric model of the Web into
 an interaction-centric one. The evolution so far has been largely ad hoc.
This workshop is intended to serve as venue for sharing ideas and on-going
research that will facilitate a systematic investigation of the semantic
foundations of social computing. Requirements Engineering (RE) offers an
ideal place to start this investigation as it has traditionally emphasized the
roles of actors and stakeholders, as well as the relationships among them.

We invite pertinent contributions on
  - Modeling of business and social interactions among actors
  - Social relationships among actors including trust, commitments,
    and contracts
  - Social platforms and middleware that supports interaction among
    actors
  - Reasoning about actor requirements in social settings
  - Adaptation in response to social threats and opportunities in
    social settings
  - Social incentive mechanisms
  - Requirements for awareness and identity management
  - Applications of social software in areas such as ehealth, ecommerce,
    sociotechnical systems, virtual organizations, supply chain networks,
    social networks, and social cloud

We invite ***short contributions*** (maximum of four pages in the IEEE
proceedings format http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting)
that should either stake a position or report on on-going research.
Contributions will be reviewed by members of the programme committee.

Important Deadlines:
Submission: May 27
Decision: June 24
Camera-ready: July 22

Invited Talk:
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University)

Panel Discussion:
Annie I. Anton (North Carolina State University)
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento)
Eric S. K. Yu (University of Toronto)

Program Committee:
Raian Ali (LERO - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre)
Simon Caton (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Florian Daniel (University of Trento)
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen University)
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento)
Emmanuel Letier (University College London)
Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University)
Oscar Pastor Lopez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Juan Manuel Serrano Hidalgo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Ian Sommerville (St. Andrews University)
Carson Woo (University of British Colombia)

ORGANIZATION

Steering Committee:
John Mylopoulos (Chair) (University of Trento)
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)

Organizers:
Soo Ling Lim (University College London – soo.lim at ucl.ac.uk)
Fabiano Dalpiaz (University of Trento – dalpiaz at disi.unitn.it)
Amit K. Chopra (University of Trento – chopra at disi.unitn.it)