[PlanetKR] CALL FOR PAPERS - NORMATIVE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (NorMAS 2016)

[Serena Villata]

CALL FOR PAPERS 

NORMATIVE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (NorMAS 2016) 
August 29-30, 2016
The Hague, Netherlands

Co-located with Collective Intentionality and ECAI2016. 
http://icr.uni.lu/normas/normas2016/normas2016.html

Motivation and Aims
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Norms are crucial for studying both human social behaviour and for developing distributed software applications. The term "norms" has two meanings: we study and apply norms in the sense of being normal (conventions, practice), and in the sense of rules and regulations (obligations, permissions).

Normative systems are complex systems in which norms play a crucial role. They need normative concepts in order to describe or specify their behaviour. A normative multi-agent system combines models for normative systems (dealing for example with conventions, or obligations) with models for multi-agent systems (dealing with coordination between individual agents).

Norms have been proposed in multi-agent systems and computer science to deal with issues of coordination, security, electronic commerce, electronic institutions and agent organization. They have been fruitfully applied to develop simulation models for the social sciences. However, due to the lack of a unified theory, many researchers are presently developing their own ad hoc concepts and applications.

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate interdisciplinary research on normative concepts and their applications.

This year, the workshop will be co-located with ECAI2016 (http://www.ecai2016.org) and the 10th conference on Collective Intentionality (http://www.collintx.org). We welcome the interaction with those communities, but if you prefer, you can register to the NorMAS workshop only. 

Topics
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We invite good quality research papers. The topics of this workshop include, but are not restricted to

* multiagent or society level:
- connecting the agent (micro) and society (macro) level
- coordination based on norms
- emergence of conventions, norms, and roles
- contracts, security, and electronic institutions
- commitments, protocols and Agent Communication Languages
- argumentation systems

* agent level:
- alternatives and extensions of homo economicus and BDI logics
- logical frameworks to encompass norms in agent decision making
- implementing norms in artificial agents
- policies and commitments

* applications:
- social simulation models of normative behaviour
- information security and privacy protection
- mixing artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
- governance of complex organizations

Research Type
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The NorMAS community is multi-disciplinary. We welcome work from different scientific backgrounds: theoretical work (formal models, representations, specifications, logics, verification), implementation-oriented work (architectures, programming languages, design models, prototype systems) and empirical work (simulations, case studies, surveys). Papers should contain some form of evaluation appropriate to the type of research.  

Submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English. 

Submission Format
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Please use the ECAI format (http://www.ecai2016.org/calls/call-for-papers/). Papers should be submitted in PDF. Length of papers is restricted to maximum of 8 pages, including references and figures. Please make your paper anonymous. 

Important Dates
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* Paper submission until: June 12th, 2016 (new date due to ECAI review process)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 29, 2016.
* Workshop: August 29-30, 2016.

Workshop Chairs
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- Joris Hulstijn (local organizer), Delft University of Technology (j.hulstijn at tudelft.nl)
- Gabriella Pigozzi, Université Paris Dauphine (gabriella.pigozzi at dauphine.fr)
- Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University (verhagen at dsv.su.se)
- Serena Villata,  I3S Laboratory, CNRS (villata at i3s.unice.fr)
  

Programme Committee
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Thomas Agotnes  
Giulia Andrighetto  
Matteo Baldoni  
Tina Balke  
Guido Boella  
Simon Caton  
Amit Chopra
Celia da Costa Pereira 
Mehdi Dastani  
Christian Dorn  
Corinna Elsenbroich  
Dov Gabbay  
Aditya Ghose  
Guido Governatori  
Llio Humphreys  
Franziska Klugl  
Ho-Pun Lam  
Emiliano Lorini  
Daniel Moldt  
Martin Neumann 
Pablo Noriega  
Julian Padget  
Adrian Paschke  
Axel Polleres  
Livio Robaldo  
Victor RodriguezDoncel  
Antonio Rotolo  
Ken Satoh  
Tony Savarimuthu  
Murat Sensoy 
Judith Simon  
Munindar Singh 
Leon van der Torre 
Viviane Torres da Silva  
Wamberto Vasconcelos  
Nobuko Yoshida  

More Information
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For more information, please contact the organizers, or refer to the homepage:  
http://icr.uni.lu/normas/.

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