29-30 Aug 2016
Den Haag, The Netherlands
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 ------------------- 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 ------ 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 ------------- 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 ----------------- 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 --------------- * 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 ---------------- - Joris Hulstijn (local organizer), Delft University of Technology (j.hulstijn@tudelft.nl) - Gabriella Pigozzi, Université Paris Dauphine (gabriella.pigozzi@dauphine.fr) - Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University (verhagen@dsv.su.se) - Serena Villata, I3S Laboratory, CNRS (villata@i3s.unice.fr) Programme Committee ------------------- 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 ---------------- For more information, please contact the organizers, or refer to the homepage: http://icr.uni.lu/normas/. -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam