[agents] CFP: Workshop on Information and, Trust Dynamics in Artificial Societies (ITDAS at IJCAI2013)

[Laurent Perrussel]

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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT


International Workshop on Information and Trust Dynamics in Artificial 
Societies (ITDAS at IJCAI2013)


Workshop goal
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Describing intelligent agents with the help of cognitive and social 
notions is now well established in the domain of artificial 
intelligence. In the recent years, concepts such as trust, reputation, 
delegation, commitment and convention have been proposed in order to 
describe how artificial agents interact in an artificial society or in a 
virtual organization. This workshop aims at discussing formal theories 
and logics of information dynamics—including formal theories and logics 
of belief and preference change, learning theory, social choice theory 
and judgment aggregation—in order to better understand: - how 
information circulates in an artificial society by direct interaction, 
communication, signaling, etc.; how it affects trust; - how it 
contributes to the construction of reputation and collective attitudes 
(e.g., mutual beliefs, social agreements), and to the emergence of 
conventions. The workshop is an associated event of IJCAI-13 and will 
take place on August 3-5 2013, Beijing, China.

Workshop website:http://www.irit.fr/~Laurent.Perrussel/itdas-13/


Call for Papers
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This workshop aims at discussing formal theories and logics of 
information dynamics, including formal theories and logics of belief and 
preference change, learning theory, social choice theory and judgment 
aggregation. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of 
logics, but also multidisciplinary aspects from social sciences 
(economics, social psychology and sociology), social epistemology and 
linguistics. By focusing on the foundational issues of (i) information 
dynamics and (ii) trust representation, the workshop will provide a 
better understanding of key issues such as: are the belief change 
techniques relevant for modeling trust dynamics? What is the role of 
communication in trust's breakdown and repair? How information 
propagates in a social network or in a multi-agent system? What are the 
consequences in terms of reputation and trust dynamics? Are existing 
formal theories of belief change and existing formal theories of 
learning relevant for modeling the dynamics of conventions?

Scope

Topics of interest include:
. Reasoning about trust and reputation
. Belief change
. Formal theories of lying and deception
. Social choice theory
. Judgment aggregation
. Reasoning about action and change
. Trust in virtual organizations
. Theories of signalling
. Theories of conventions
. Learning theory
. Epistemic game theory
. Speech act theory
. Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL)
. Logics of agency
. Preference dynamics
. Theories of delegation
. Social network theory

As shown by the previous topics, the workshop has an multidisciplinary 
nature, it covers not only research in AI but also research in 
economics, philosophy of interaction, sociology, social psychology and 
linguistics.

Program Committee
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Workshop chairs

   Hans van Ditmarsch    LORIA - Univ. of Lorraine (France)
   Emiliano Lorini    IRIT - Univ. de Toulouse (France)
   Laurent Perrussel    IRIT - Univ. de Toulouse (France)

PC members

   Thomas Agotnes (Uni. of Bergen - Norway)
   Guillaume Aucher (IRISA - Uni. of Rennes - France)
   Jan Broersen (Utrecht Uni. - The Netherlands)
   Jim Delgrande (Uni. of Toronto - Canada)
   Robert Demolombe (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France)
   Rino Falcone (ISTC - Roma - Italy)
   Nina Gierasimczuk (Uni. of Amsterdam - The Netherlands)
   Davide Grossi (Uni. of Liverpool - UK)
   Andreas Herzig (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France)
   Wiebe van der Hoek (Uni. of Liverpool - UK)
   Andrew Jones (King's college London - UK)
   Barteld Kooi (Uni. of Groningen - The Netherlands)
   Tiago de Lima (CRIL - Uni. of Artois - France)
   Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua Uni. - China)
   Eric Pacuit (Uni. of Maryland - USA)
   Fabio Paglieri (ISTC - Roma - Italy)
   Henri Prade (IRIT - Uni. of Toulouse - France)
   Francesca Rossi (Uni. of Padova - Italy)
   Jordi Sabater (IIIA-CSIC - Barcelona - Spain)
   Jeremy Seligman (Auckland Uni. - New Zealand)
   Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC - Barcelona - Spain)
   Sonja Smets (Uni. of Amsterdam - The Netherlands)
   Allard Tamminga (Uni. of Groningen - The Netherlands)
   Michael Tielscher (Uni of New South Wales - Australia)
   Leon van der Torre (Uni. of Luxembourg - Luxembourg)
   Nicolas Troquard (ISTC - Trento - Italy)
   Luca Tummolini (ISTC - Roma - Italy)
   Rineke Verbrugge (Uni. of Groningen - The Netherlands)
   Renata Wasserman (Uni. of Sao Paulo - Brazil)
   Yanjing Wang (Peking Uni. - China)

Submission
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Interested authors should format their papers according to IJCAI 
formatting guidelines. Submitted papers might be at the time of 
submission under review or accepted for publication in a journal or 
another conference. Papers should not exceed 7 pages and are due by 
April 19, 2013. All papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itdasijcai13.
The proceedings of ITDAS-13 workshop will be published in an informal on 
the workshop website. An author of each accepted paper is required to 
register, attend, and present the paper at ITDAS at IJCAI-13. The Journal 
of Applied Non-Classical Logic will publish a special issue devoted to 
extended versions of selected papers.


Key dates
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Submission deadline    April 19, 2013
Acceptance notification    May 20, 2013
Camera ready    June 1st, 2013
Workshop    August 3–5, 2013


Sponsorship
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This workshop will form part of the coordination activities of SINTELNET 
(http://www.sintelnet.eu/), the European Network for Social intelligence 
(FP7-286370), within the Working Group co-chaired by Emiliano Lorini.
With the the help of SINTELNET, the workshop will welcome Invited speaker.