[agents] 2nd Call for Papers: ACM TOIT Special Section on Affect and Interaction in Agent-based Systems and Social Media

[Viviana Patti]

[Apologies for multiple postings]


CALL FOR PAPERS
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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Special Section on Affect and Interaction in Agent-based Systems and 
Social Media

http://toit.acm.org/CfP/ACM-ToIT-CfP-AffectInt.pdf


AIMS AND SCOPE
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Today’s Internet is evolving towards an open society of humans and 
computational entities, where social media and intelligent agent systems 
increasingly support the interaction and collaboration among and between 
users and computational components. In this scenario, affect can 
recognizably play a key role, with multi-faceted functions that span 
from creating and maintaining interpersonal relations, to establishing 
cooperation and trust for ensuring social cohesion. Artificial systems - 
independently of their role as actors or facilitators of these 
interactions - are more and more requested to model and integrate the 
affective component of the interaction, in order to face the challenges 
of implementing truly realistic social behaviors and of fostering the 
creation of natural and stable bonds with the users. This may involve to 
understand and reproduce human expressive capabilities, and possibly to 
account for affect-related phenomena (gathering sentiments, emotions, 
and moods) that engage the use of social abilities, such as empathy, and 
expressive means, such as irony.
The aim of this special section is to bring together leading research on 
computational models of affect-related phenomena in interactions 
occurring either in social media or agent-based systems, by attaining 
cross-fertilization between two relevant perspectives: on the one hand, 
research on agent architectures and cognitive models, which is concerned 
with the integration of affective states into agents; on the other hand, 
research on techniques for sentiment analysis and opinion mining, mainly 
focussing on processing of affective information in social media, where 
spontaneous, multi-faceted user responses about shared contents are 
expressed in natural language.
The possible integration, in terms of models and methods, between the 
two perspectives can open the way to: a) a fruitful combination of 
complementary aspects, such as affect-related phenomena expression and 
reception; b) the definition of sophisticated affect-aware agent 
interaction and decision making strategies; c) the development of a new 
generation of social and interactive applications that leverage the 
affective dimension to foster improved, spontaneous technology-mediated 
interactions, including human computer and human robot interactions.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Affective models and ontologies
- Affect and regulation of agent interactions in multi-agent systems
- Affect and decision making
- Affect and norms in agent societies
- Affect and models of reputation and trust
- Affect in cooperation, teamwork, negotiation
- Multimodal affect models for socially believable virtual agents
- Grounding affect in conversational context
- Affect-related phenomena in social media
- Affect-related phenomena in ironic expressions


GUEST EDITORS
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Chloé Clavel, Institut-Mines-Telecom, Telecom-ParisTech, LTCI-CNRS, France
Rossana Damiano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain


TIMEFRAME
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Submissions: November 30, 2015
First decisions: March 15th,  2016
Revisions: April 30th, 2016
Final decisions: June 30th,  2016
Final manuscripts: July 30th, 2016
Publication date: November 30th, 2016


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINES
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Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript and submission 
instructions can be found at: http://toit.acm.org/submission.html
Please select “Special Section: Affect and Interaction in Agent-based 
Systems and Social Media” under Manuscript Type dropdown in the 
Manuscript Central website.


CONTACT
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Please send any queries about this CfP to aiassm.toit at gmail.com

ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief
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Munindar P. Singh
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University