PAAMS 2013 SPECIAL SESSION ON TRUST, INCENTIVES AND NORMS IN OPEN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Research on multi-agent systems (MAS) has, in the last years, devoted a strong attention to social issues such as trust, norms, contracts, and incentives. Although several real-world evidences, as well as literature from sociology and economics, point to the fact that these issues are strongly correlated, such interconnections have not yet taken much attention from the MAS research community, at least from a practical perspective. And yet, a combination of social issues seems to be adequate to address application areas of increasing importance, such as B2B contracting or social networks.
In its 2nd edition this special session intends to bring together MAS researchers to specifically discuss the integration of these different social concepts in MAS. Such integration can be studied from two complementary perspectives: the macro-perspective, which concerns the design and development of environments incorporating social infrastructures such as computational trust models, normative structures and incentive-based mechanisms, in order to promote cooperative behaviors among autonomous software agents; and the micro-perspective, devoted to deliberative agent architectures capable of combining the use of different societal issues, such as trust, norms and incentives. The integration of these issues further raises the challenge of understanding and modeling the interconnection between both perspectives in order to install top-down/bottom-up loops to properly manage the evolution of the concepts of these micro/macro levels.
TINMAS is co-located with the 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13) to be held in Salamanca on 22nd-24th May 2013.
