[agents] cfp first international workshop on Socio-Cognitive Systems @ FAIM

[Frank Dignum]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Socio-Cognitive Systems: Computational and Formal models
Workshop at FAIM2018
URL: http://cfpm.org/scs18/

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*Important dates*:
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*Deadline for submissions:1 May 2018*

*Notification of acceptance:25 May 2018**
Camera-ready copy of papers:15 June 2018****
Workshop:14 or 15 July 2018*

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Much of AI only makes sense within the social systems they are embedded. 
In the real world these social systems in their turn are created and 
maintained by the people and thus their cognitive abilities.

In this workshop, we want to explore the interactions between cognitive 
and social aspects of so-called socio-cognitive systems. The workshop 
connects elements of IJCAI/ECAI, AAMAS and ICML. Of course, modelling 
these systems in terms of Multi-Agent Systems seems intuitive, but would 
require special attention to the social concepts in these MAS. The 
cognitive abilities of the agents should adapt themselves to the social 
context and development, which connects this area to machine learning in 
a social context.

The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

* Social norms, conventions and practices
* Institutions
* Social networks and their dynamics
* Group recognition and membership
* Development of (social) Identity
* Status and power relations
* Plan coordination
* Social agency
* Social adaptation
* Social self-regulation
* The construction of social reality
* Complex negotiations
* Agreed naming and reference
* Cultural coherence
* Foundations of Communication
* The construction and coordination of complex value-chains
* Enculturation
* Co-development of social context

SCS welcomes high-quality research that goes beyond looking at social 
aspects of individual cognition or the properties of individuals in 
social systems and seeks to truly integrate these two layers. We 
particularly welcome *interdisciplinary *research, work that seeks to 
tackle areas that have been ignored before and novel approaches to 
relating the cognitive and the social. We are agnostic about the kind of 
approach or tools used, but favour approaches with an identifiable 
empirical or computational/formal content - both systems constructed for 
a particular goal in mind and models of observed or theoretical systems. 
However, the aim is to give new insights - into social science, 
cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence - merely formalising or 
implementing a system is not enough. We welcome contributions from a 
wide range of standpoints as long as this does not involve an effective 
reduction to only the individual or social levels.Papers will undergo 
the normal review process and are selected on the basis of quality. 
However, when choices have to be made we will try to spread the accepted 
papers over the main themes of the workshop. Interesting ideas are more 
important in this respect than detailed results on fringe topics.A 
selection of the best papers of the workshop will be considered for a 
special issue of the new Springer journal on Socio-Cognitive Systems.

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Formatting guidelines:
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We encourage participants to submit a paper (15 pages max), describing 
their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. All 
non-presenting participants will need to submit a one-page position 
statement which presents their view on socio-cognitive systems relative 
to (one of) the workshop topics.

All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete 
mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address. Please use 
the LNCS format for formatting your paper.All accepted submissions and 
position statements will be published in the workshop proceedings.

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Submission procedure:
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Submissions should be submitted through the EasyChair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scs18
in PDF format.
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 1 May 2018. Papers received 
after this date will not be reviewed.

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Workshop Organizers
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Frank Dignum,Utrecht University,The Netherlands

Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University ,UK

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Program Committee (to be confirmed):
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1.Melania Borit

2.Amit Chopra

3.Edmund Chattoe-Brown

4.Stephen Cranefield

5.Kristen Dautenhahn

6.Gert-Jan Hofstede

7.Wander Jager

8.Catholijn Jonker

9.Yoshi Kashima

10.Victor Lesser

11.Emiliano Lorini

12.Stacy Marsella

13.John-Jules Meyer

14.Rui Prada

15.Javier Vazquez Salceda

16.Munindar Singh

17.Pawel Sobkowicz

18.Wamberto Vasconcelos

19.Harko Verhagen

20.Nanda Weijermans

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Frank Dignum                            *
Utrecht University                      *Knowledge is only one point,
The Netherlands                         *the ignorant have multiplied it
e-mail: F.P.M.Dignum at uu.nl              *
url: www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/ *                  (Baha'u'llah)
telephone: +31-30-2539109               *
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