[agents] CFP: AAAI 2015 Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'15)

[Jay Zhang]

Dear Friends,



Sorry if you have received multiple copies of this message. But, we would
like to share with you the Call For Papers of the AAAI 2015 Workshop on
Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'15).



CALL FOR PAPER



AAAI 2015 WORKSHOP ON INCENTIVE AND TRUST IN E-COMMUNITIES

(WIT-EC'15)



http://trust.sce.ntu.edu.sg/wit-ec15/



The 4th WIT-EC workshop will be held together with the Twenty Ninth AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), January 25-26, 2015, in
Austin, Texas, USA.



Trust and incentive have bidirectional relationships. As trustworthiness
measures are used as part of incentive mechanisms to promote honesty in
electronic communities, incentive mechanisms motivate participants to
contribute their truthful opinions that are useful for trust modeling.
Hence, trust and reputation systems should not only provide a means to
detect and prevent malicious activities but also design a mechanism to
discourage dishonesty attitudes amongst participants.

The evidential success of combining these two concepts inspires and
encourages researchers in the trust community to enhance the efficacy and
performance of trust modeling approaches by adopting various incentive
mechanisms.



The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners of both fields, to foster an exchange of information and
ideas, and to facilitate a discussion of current and emerging topics
relevant to building effective trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms
for electronic communities.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Social, cognitive trust, reputation

- Computational trust, reputation

- Incentive Mechanisms

- Cross-cultural approaches

- Components and dimensions of sociotechnical trust

- Game theoretic approaches to trust and reputation

- Game theory and trusting behaviours

- Risk management and trust-based decision making

- Trust management dynamics

- Trust, regret, and forgiveness

- Economic drivers for trustworthy systems

- Trust and economic models

- Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis

- Context-aware trust assessments

- Trust-aware recommender systems

- Evolution of trust

- Trust-based incentive mechanisms

- Robustness of trust and reputation systems

- Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis

- Robustness of incentive mechanisms

- Deception and fraud, and its detection and prevention

- Attacks on, and defences for, trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms

- Testbeds and framework of trust

- User interfaces to incentive mechanisms

- Real-world applications for virtual communities (e.g. e-commerce, social
network, e-health, e-learning, blog, online tutoring systems)





Previous Workshops:

Reacting to the strong needs and trend, the first Workshop on Incentives
and Trust in E-Commerce (WIT-EC'12) was organized by the above organizers
together with the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'12), on
June 4-8, 2012, in Valencia, Spain. We were able to attract 11 high quality
submissions, 8 of which were accepted for presentation at the workshop. The
second Workshop on Incentive and Trust in E-commerce (WIT-EC'13) has been
held together with the 23rd International Joint Conference on Articial
Intelligence (IJCAI'13), on August 3-9, 2013, in Beijing, China. The third
Workshop on Incentive and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'14) will be held
together with the 28th Conference on Articial Intelligence (AAAI'14), on
July 27 , in Quebec, Canada. We were able to attract 13 high quality
submissions, 9 of which were accepted for presentation at the workshop.



Workshop Co-Chairs:

Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zeinab Noorian,
University of Saskatchewan, Canada Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario
Institute of Technology, Canada Christian Jensen, Technical University of
Denmark, Denmark



Program Committee (Tentative):

Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada, rcohen at ai.uwaterloo.ca Babak
Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada, babak at sce.carleton.ca Julita
Vassileva, Univeristy of Saskatechwan, Canada, jiv at cs.usask.ca Thomas Tran,
University of Ottawa, Canada, ttran at site.uottawa.ca Kewen Wu, University of
Saskatchewan, Canada, kew259 at mail.usask.com Chris Burnett, University of
Aberdeen, UK, cburnett at abdn.ac.uk Audun Joang, University of Oslo, Norway,
josang at mn.uio.no Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Science and
Technologies, CNR, Italy, rino.falcone at istc.cnr.it Sarvapali Ramchurn,
University of Southampton,UK, sdr at ecs.soton.ac.uk Siyuan Liu, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, syliu at ntu.edu.sg Sama Khosravifar,
University of Tehran, Iran, babak.khosravifar at gmail.com Sviatoslav Braynov,
University of Illinois at Springfield, USA, sbray2 at uis.edu Carol Fung,
University of Waterloo, Canada, cfung at vcu.edu



Workshop Publicity:

Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Yuan Liu , Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore





Contact Info:

Zeinab Noorian (zeinab.noorian at gmail.com)



Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline : October 07, 2014 Notification of Acceptance:
November 14, 2014 Camera-ready Paper: November 21, 2014 Workshop Date:
January 25, 2015





Submission and Proceedings:

Papers must be formatted according to the AAAI 2015 style guide. We solicit
short and long papers as well as research demos. Long papers (6 pages)
present original research work; short papers (4 pages) report on work in
progress or describe demo systems. All the selected papers will be
published in an AAAI technical report volume.

Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance,
validity and clarity. All articles selected for publication will be
reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area.



For the first two series (2012 and 2013) of the WIT-EC workshops, we had a
special issue of the Computational Intelligence journal on "Incentives and
Trust in E-Commerce".



We plan to again invite the best papers from the 2014 and 2015 series of
the workshop for a journal special issue.



Best papers will also be recommended to the Journal of Trust Management.



Another future plan for the workshop is to have a book composed of the
relevant papers from the workshop as book chapters. This plan will be
discussed during the 2015 workshop.



Look forward to your submissions.



Cheers,



Jie Zhang



Assistant Professor

School of Computer Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Web: www.ntu.edu.sg/home/zhangj