[agents] [CfP] Computational Accountability and Responsibility WS @ PRIMA 2017

[Cristina Baroglio]

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       Computational  Accountability  and  Responsibility
            in Multiagent Systems (CARe-MAS) Workshop

                   Nice, France, *31* October 2017

                     co-located with PRIMA 2017

                    http://di.unito.it/caremas17

            Call for Papers, Position Papers, Challenges


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The CARe-MAS Workshop aims at providing a  discussion  forum  for
researchers and practitioners who are investigating issues relat‐
ed to "computational accountability and responsibility in  multi‐
agent systems".  CARe-MAS concerns the use of Artificial Intelli‐
gence techniques and approaches âwith  particular care to multia‐
gent systemsâ to help supporting the realization of accountabili‐
ty  frameworks  which,  in  turn, help  organizations  to respect
their  commitments, help individuals in  organizing  their  work,
help  managers  in taking decisions,  improve  infrastructure and
procedures,  and so forth.  The development of such special‐ ized
management  systems introduces  challenges  and  requirements for
handling  ethical  issues,   e.g.  serving  the  requirements  of
transparency, accountability, and privacy preservation.   We  be‐
lieve  that  such challenges can be faced with the support of in‐
telligent systems,  with  plenty  of  potential  applications  in
fields  like  finance  and  business  transactions, fair business
practices, resource  management,  consumer  protection,  economic
systems, corruption, sales and marketing, health care, public ad‐
ministration, smart cities, and decision support.

We thus call for papers that are concerned  with  any  aspect  of
computational  accountability  and  responsibility  in multiagent
systems.

The list  of topics includes but is not limited to:

  * Computational Accountability/Responsibility;
  * Engineering  socio-technical systems to realize accountability
    frameworks;
  * Relationships between social commitments/social computing and
    computational accountability/responsibilty;
  * Normative multiagent systems and computational  accountability
    frameworks;
  * Computational accountability and responsibility of/within or‐
    ganizations and institutions;
  * Legal reasoning, computable contracts, and  computational  law
    in the definition of
    computational accountability and responsibility;
  * Semantic and agreement technologies;
  * Individual and collective responsibility;
  * Value sensitive design;
  * Application of AI methodologies to the realizazion of computa‐
    tional accoutnability and responsibility, such as:
    o knowledge representation,
    o reasoning,
    o data-aware approaches,
    o software engineering,
    o recommendation systems.


*Location*

CARe‐MAS 2017 is held jointly with the 20th International Confer‐
ence  on  Principles and Practice of Multi‐Agent Systems in Nice,
France.


*Important Dates*

  * Paper submission deadline:      17 September 2017
  * Notification to the  authors:    1 October   2017
  * Camera‐ready   copies   due:    22 October   2017
  * CARe-MAS 2017:                  31 October   2017


*Venue*

Co-located with, the 20th International Conference on Principles and 
Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2017)

Web site: https://prima2017.gforge.uni.lu/

Please, check also the web page of the thematic day on Ethics by Design:
https://prima2017.gforge.uni.lu/ethics.html


*Organizers*

Matteo Baldoni
University of Torino, Deparrtment of Computer Science
http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni

Cristina Baroglio
University of Torino, Deparrtment of Computer Science
http://www.di.unito.it/~baroglio

Roberto Micalizio
University of Torino, Deparrtment of Computer Science
http://www.di.unito.it/~micalizi


*Submission*

All contributions will have to be formatted according to the LNCS style.
We accept two kinds of contribution:

(1) Short: descriptions of on-going works, position papers, demos and
     ideas (from 2 to 8 pages);

(2) Full: research papers (from 9 to 15 pages).

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caremas2017

*Publication*

Depending on the received submissions we will evaluate the feasibility
of one or both the following publications:

(1) proceedings on a volume published by CEUR‐WS.org;

(2) assuming a sufficient number of  high-quality submissions,
     we  are  going  to  consider the publication of selected, re‐
     vised, and extended versions of the presented papers  as  a
     special issue on an international journal.

Preproceedings will be available in electronic format before the
workshop.


*Acknowledgements*

This workshop is organized within  the  "Accountable  Trustworthy
Organizations and Systems (AThOS)" project, funded by Università
degli Studi di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP 2014).