call for papers

AIMS AND SCOPE

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 taken yet 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.

Building on a successful first edition of TINMAS last year, this special session intends again 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 combining 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. Particularly important is the development of hybrid approaches taking into consideration the advantages that may be obtained on the regulation/coordination of individuals in MAS (macro level) and the influence in the agent’s decision making processes (micro level).

Research contributions on approaches dealing with trust, norms and/or incentives are welcome (both from a micro and/or macro perspective), considering the following dimensions:

Research contributions on the interplay between trust, norms and/or incentives are welcome (both from a micro and/or macro perspective), considering the following dimensions:

  • Models and theories
  • Applications
  • MAS frameworks, environments and tools
  • MAS-based simulations
  • Deliberative agent architectures

 

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission date: January 13th , 2013
  • Notification date: February 10th, 2013
  • Paper ready date: February 20th, 2013
  • Conference dates: May 22nd-24th, 2013

 

SUBMISSIONS

Papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series Springer template. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the PAAMS 2013 conference management system. Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field.

 

PUBLICATION

At least one author is required to register at PAAMS 2013 and present the paper in the TINMAS special session in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published together with the PAAMS 2013 proceedings, in a volume of the Springer Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series.

 

ORGANIZERS

  • Ana Paula Rocha (University of Porto): arocha@fe.up.pt
  • Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto): hlc@fe.up.pt
  • Olivier Boissier (ENSM Saint-Etienne): Olivier.Boissier@emse.fr
  • Ramón Hermoso (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos): ramon.hermoso@urjc.es

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Eugénio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Patrice Caire (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
Roberto Centeno (UNED, Spain)
Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Laurent Vercouter (University of Rouen, France)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Joana Urbano (University of Porto, Portugal)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Daniel Villatoro (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Waqar ul Qounain (University of The Punjab, Pakistan)