[PlanetKR] SNAMAS at AISB2011- preliminary Call for Papers

[Guido Boella]

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

THIRD SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM
SNAMAS at AISB 2011 Convention
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/
4-7 April 2011, University of York, UK


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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

- Matthias Mailliard (Cemagref, France)
- Clara Smith (UNLP and UCALP, Argentina)
- Frédéric Amblard (IRIT, France)
- Samuel Thiriot (INRIA ? France)

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The aim of the SNAMAS Symposium is to exchange ideas, tools,
methodology, on various works in MAS that integrate the social network
component.

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TOPICS

The 2011 release of SNAMAS will be focused on "social relations and
their underlying processes in social organizations". A special
attention will be paid to empirical studies. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to) works exhibiting:

- empirical and/or theoretical researches on a specific social
relation (relation of power, solidarity, legitimity, trust...);
- the role of specific social relations in structuring organizations;
- the role of agents´ attributes in structuring social relations
(values, emotions, cognitive abilities, ...);
- the role of social relation structures on agent behaviour;
- agent mechanisms and algorithms dealing with representations for
social relations representations;
- social relations regulations;
- comparative and ontological studies from SNA and MAS;
- mathematical representations to describe and analyse structures for
social relations, and their dynamics.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: January 9, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2011.
Camera ready version deadline: TBA
Symposium: 4th - 7th April, 2011.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should consult the instructions on the website for submitting
their papers electronically.
Guidelines for paper submission are as the following:
- The paper should be written in English.
- The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format
(format download:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html).
- The paper should be in PDF format.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system.
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisb11 (Track : Social
Networks and Multi-agent systems))

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed)

Luis Antunes (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Guido Boella (University of Turin)
Cristiano Castelfranchi, (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Univ. Leicester, UK)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Terrill Frantz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Camille Roth (CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France)
Giovanni Sartor (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
Serena Villata (University of Turin)
Justin Zhan (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)

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CONTACTS

For further inquiries please contact: snamas2011 at res-ear.ch