[agents] Call for papers: 16th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (TRUST13)

[Norman, Prof Timothy J. F.]

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Call for papers: 16th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (TRUST13)
In conjunction with AAMAS 2013, St Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6-10, 2013 (aamas2013.cs.umn.edu)

Submission deadline: February 10, 2013
For more information: sites.google.com/site/trustworkshop

Trust is important in many kinds of interactions including direct or computer-mediated human interaction, human-computer interaction, and among social agents. It characterises those elements (nature, features and interrelations) that are essential in social reliability. Trust is more than communication that is robust against repudiation or interference. The reliability of information about the status of a trade partner, for example, is only partly dependent on secure communication.

With the growing prevalence of social interaction through electronic means, trust, reputation, privacy, and identity become more and more important. Trust is not just a simple, monolithic concept, it is multi-faceted; it operates at many levels of, and plays many roles in interaction. We can consider: trust in the environment and in the infrastructure (the socio-technical system) including trust in your personal agent and in other mediating agents; trust in potential partners; trust in the warrantors and authorities (if any).

Another growing trend is the use of reputation mechanisms, and in particular the interesting link between trust and reputation. Many computational and theoretical models and approaches to reputation have been developed in the last few years. In all these cases, electronic personas may be created in many different forums: e-commerce, social networks, blogs, etc.

Further, identity and associated trustworthiness must be ascertained for reliable interactions and transactions. Trust is foundational for the notion of agency and for its defining relation of acting "on behalf of". It is also critical for modelling and supporting groups and teams, organisations, co-ordination, negotiation, with the related trade-off between individual utility and collective interest, or in modelling the distribution of (mis)information. In several cases, the electronic medium seems to weaken the usual bonds in social control, and the disposition to cheat grows stronger. In experiments of cooperation supported by computers it has been found that people tend to defect more frequently than in face-to-face interaction, and that a prior direct acquaintance reduces this effect. Technology can also damage trust relationships already held in human organisations and relations, and favour additional challenges of deception and trust.

Exploring these issues will be the objective of the workshop discussions. At the same time we will focus this edition of the workshop on the specific theme of "Trust and Norms".

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, applications, concepts, models, theories, mechanisms (including architecture, design, and protocols), techniques, and evaluations of:
* Trust assessment
* Risk-based decision making
* Deception and fraud, and its detection and prevention
* Reputation
* Privacy and access control
* Identity in virtual worlds
* Autonomy, delegation and ownership
* Policies, interoperability, protocols, ontologies and standards
* Scalability and distribution
* Trust assessment of information streams
* Testbeds and frameworks
* Legal aspects
* Organizations and institutions
* Regulation and regimentation
* SPECIAL THEME: Trust and norms

The workshop welcomes submissions of high-quality research addressing issues that are clearly relevant to trust, deception, privacy, reputation, security, and control in agent-based systems. Both theoretical and applied research is welcome, as is research bridging multiple disciplines. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two referees from a group of reviewers selected by the workshop organizers with the help of the program committee. Submitted contributions should be original and not submitted elsewhere.

Authors can submit papers (maximum length 12 pages) in PDF format through the Easychair system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trust20130
Submitted papers must follow the LNCS formatting instructions. Please download the appropriate instructions and templates from Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0

IMPORTANT DATES

February 10, 2013: Deadline for submission of papers
March 3, 2013: Acceptance notification
March 10, 2013: Deadline for receipt of revised papers
The Workshop will be held on either May 6 or May 7, 2013 (to be confirmed)

PUBLICATION

As in past years, we expect to publish either a journal special issue or a post-workshop proceedings with Springer.

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy
Suzanne Barber, The University of Texas, USA
Timothy Norman, The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Programme committee to be confirmed

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Professor Timothy J. Norman
Computing Science & RCUK dot.rural Research Hub
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. AB24 3UE
www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~tnorman & www.dotrural.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272284



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