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

[Laurent Perrussel]

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

Beijing - August 3-5, 2013

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 submissions
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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 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
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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 signaling
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 two Invited 
speakers.