[agents] [CFP] 2nd Special Session on Trust, Incentives and Norms in open Multi-Agent Systems (TINMAS 2013)

[Henrique Lopes Cardoso]

CFP TINMAS 2013
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2nd Special Session on Trust, Incentives and Norms in open Multi-Agent
Systems
http://www.ia.urjc.es/tinmas2013
Co-located with PAAMS 2013 (http://www.paams.net/)
Salamanca, Spain, 22nd - 24th May 2013
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AIMS AND SCOPE

Research on multi-agent systems (MAS) has, in the last years, devoted a
strong attention to social issues such as trust, norms, contracts, and
incentives. Although several real-world evidences, as well as literature
from sociology and economics, point to the fact that these issues are
strongly correlated, such interconnections have not taken yet much
attention from the MAS research community, at least from a practical
perspective. And yet, a combination of social issues seems to be
adequate to address application areas of increasing importance, such as
B2B contracting or social networks.

Building on a successful first edition of TINMAS last year, this special
session intends again to bring together MAS researchers to specifically
discuss the integration of these different social concepts in MAS. Such
integration can be studied from two complementary perspectives: the
macro-perspective, which concerns the design and development of
environments combining social infrastructures such as computational
trust models, normative structures and incentive-based mechanisms, in
order to promote cooperative behaviors among autonomous software agents;
and the micro-perspective, devoted to deliberative agent architectures
capable of combining the use of different societal issues, such as
trust, norms and incentives. The integration of these issues further
raises the challenge of understanding and modeling the interconnection
between both perspectives in order to install top-down/bottom-up loops
to properly manage the evolution of the concepts of these micro/macro
levels. Particularly important is the development of hybrid approaches
taking into consideration the advantages that may be obtained on the
regulation/coordination of individuals in MAS (macro level) and the
influence in the agent’s decision making processes (micro level).

Research contributions on the interplay between trust, norms and/or
incentives are welcome (both from a micro and/or macro perspective),
considering the following dimensions:

Models and theories
Applications
MAS frameworks, environments and tools
MAS-based simulations
Deliberative agent architectures


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission date: January 13th , 2013
Notification date: February 10th, 2013
Paper ready date: February 20th, 2013
Conference dates: May 22nd-24th, 2013


SUBMISSIONS

All papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent
and Soft Computing Series Springer template, with a maximum length of 8
pages, including figures and references. Papers must be submitted in PDF
format through the PAAMS 2013 conference management system.

The template can be downloaded here : http://www.springer.com/series/4240

PUBLICATION

At least one author is required to register at PAAMS 2013 and present
the paper in the TINMAS special session in order for the paper to be
included in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published
together with the PAAMS 2013 proceedings, in a volume of the Springer
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series.



ORGANIZERS

Ana Paula Rocha (University of Porto): arocha at fe.up.pt
Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto): hlc at fe.up.pt
Olivier Boissier (ENSM Saint-Etienne): Olivier.Boissier at emse.fr
Ramon Hermoso (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos): ramon.hermoso at urjc.es


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Daniel Villatoro (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Joana Urbano (University of Porto, Portugal)
Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Laurent Vercouter (University of Rouen, France)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Patrice Caire (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
Roberto Centeno (UNED, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Waqar ul Qounain (University of The Punjab, Pakistan)