[agents] Norms Actions Games: Call for participation

[Turrini, Paolo]

NAG 2014: Call for participation

Norms Actions Games

King's College London, London (April, 1-2 2014)

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pturrini/NAG/



*AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP*


In strategic interaction, where multiple agents pursue personal

objectives, conflict is bound to arise, as the actions of the individual agents have an effect on the welfare of the others. In such situations the need arises for the explicit regulation of individual and collective behaviour which has traditionally followed two alternative approaches, well-known in the economics literature: the spontaneous order approach, which studies how norms result from endogenous agreements among rational individuals, and the mechanism design approach, which studies how norms are exogenously designed in order to reach desirable properties.


The present workshop is motivated by the conviction that the two

paradigms to understand norms in strategic interaction are by no means incompatible and can be effectively used together for regulative purposes. The aim of the symposium is to gather researchers looking at norms in strategic interaction from different perspectives, i.e. philosophy, computer science, game theory, logic, fostering discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration. Researchers will be given the opportunity of presenting their work in a stimulating environment, without novelty constraints on their contribution.



The workshop is sponsored by SINTELNET, the European Network for Social Intelligence, and NIBS, the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science.




*WORKSHOP CHAIRS*


Elizabeth Black

(Department of Informatics, King's College London)


Jan Broersen

(Department of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University)


Alex Possajennikov

(School of Economics, University of Nottingham)


Paolo Turrini

(Department of Computing, Imperial College London)



*INVITED SPEAKERS*



Cristina Bicchieri

(Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)


Urs Fischbacher

(Thurgau Institute of Economics, University of Konstanz)


Martin van Hees

(Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam)


Marek Sergot

(Department of Computing, Imperial College London)


Kai Spiekermann

(Department of Government, London School of Economics)


Jorgen Weibull

(Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)


Michael Wooldridge

(Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)



*CONTRIBUTED PAPERS*


The workshop has received over 110 submissions, from all its thematic areas. An extremely selective review process has lead to the acceptance of 20 papers for oral presentation and 25 posters.


The full programme will soon be available on the workshop website.



*REGISTRATION*


Please register through the following link:


https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/applying/name/normsactionsgames


Registration costs (100 pounds for early registration) include lunches, coffee breaks and refreshments. The deadline for early registration is March 21st.




*FURTHER INFORMATION*


For more information please have a look at the workshop website

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pturrini/NAG/index.html