Last CfP: Trust Workshop at AAMAS-06

[McNamara, Laura A]

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well, does this look interesting or what???
 
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In a message dated 01/25/06 08:28:02 Mountain Standard Time, mario.paolucci at istc.cnr.it writes:

        NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/
        We encourage you to circulate this call as widely as possible:
       
        ================  CALL FOR PAPERS  ===================
       
                                 Ninth International Workshop on
                                   TRUST IN AGENT SOCIETIES
                  http://www.istc.cnr.it/T3/events/aamas/wstrust09.html
       
                                                    to be held at
       
        Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS 2006)
                     May 9 (Full Day), 2006. Future University, Hakodate, Japan
       
       
        SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1, 2006
       
       
       
        DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP
       
        The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers who can contribute
        to a better understanding of trust and reputation in agent societies. Most
        agent models assume secure and reliable communication to exist between
        agents. However, this ideal situation is seldom met in reality. In fact,
        many techniques (e.g. contracts, signatures, long-term personnel
        relationships, reputation) have been evolved over time to detect and prevent
        deception and fraud in human communication, exchanges and relations, and
        hence to assure trust between agents. Artificial societies will need
        analogous techniques.
       
        Trust is more than secure communication, e.g., via public key cryptography
        techniques. For example, the reliability of information about the status of
        your trade partner has little to do with secure communication. With the
        growing impact of electronic societies, trust and privacy become more and
        more important. Trust is important in applications such as human-computer
        interaction to model the relationship between users and their personal
        assistants. Different kinds of trust are needed: trust in the environment
        and in the infrastructure (the socio-technical system) including trust in
        your personal agent and in other mediating agents; trust in the potential
        partners; trust in the warrantors and authorities (if any). Another growing
        trend is the use of reputation mechanisms, and in particular the interesting
        link between trust and reputation. Many computational and theoretical models
        and approaches to reputation have been developed in the last few years.
       
        Trust appears to be foundational for the notion of "agency" and for its
        defining relation of acting "on behalf of". It is also critical for modeling
        and supporting groups and teams, organizations, co-ordination, negotiation,
        with the related trade-off between individual utility and collective
        interest; or in modelling distributed knowledge and its circulation. In
        several cases the electronic medium seems to weaken the usual bonds in
        social control: and the habit or disposition to cheat grow stronger. In
        experiments of cooperation supported by computers it has been found that
        people are more leaning to defeat than in face-to-face interaction, and a
        preliminary direct acquaintance reduces this effect. So, computer technology
        can even break trust relationships already held in human organizations and
        relations, and favor additional problems of deception and trust.
       
        We encourage an interdisciplinary focus of the workshop - although focused
        on virtual environments and artificial agents - as well as presentations of
        a wide range of models of deception, fraud, reputation and trust building.
        Just to mention some examples: AI models, BDI models, cognitive models, game
        theory, and organizational science theories. Suggested topics include, but
        are not restricted to, the following. Here ?mechanisms? include
        considerations of architecture, design, and protocols.
       
        *    Models of trust and of its functions;
        *    Models of deception and fraud; approaches for detection and prevention;
        *    Models and mechanisms of reputation;
        *    Role of control and guaranties mechanisms;
        *    Models and mechanisms for privacy and access control;
        *    Theoretical aspects, e.g., autonomy, delegation, ownership;
        *    Integration of conventional and agent-based mechanisms;
        *    Policies, interoperability, protocols, ontologies, and standards;
        *    Scalability and distribution across multiple domains or within the
        global domain;
        *    Test-beds and frameworks for computational trust and reputation models;
        *    Legal aspects;
        *    Application studies (e.g., e-commerce, e-health, e-government) of the
        above.
       
       
        IMPORTANT DATES
        Workshop submissions deadline     February 1, 2006
        Workshop paper acceptance notifications    February 19, 2006
        Camera ready copies    March 10, 2006
       
       
        PREPARATION & SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
       
        The workshop welcomes submissions of original, high quality works addressing
        issues that are clearly relevant to trust, deception, fraud, and reputation,
        in agent-based systems, either from a theoretical or an applied perspective.
        Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two referees from a group of
        reviewers selected by the workshop organizers with the help of the program
        committee. Submitted contributions should be original and not submitted
        elsewhere. As before, we expect to publish a post-proceedings with Springer.
       
        Authors can submit an extended abstract (4-5 pages) or a long paper (12
        pages). Papers (extended abstracts or long papers) must be sent to Rino
        Falcone. The preferred mode of submission is as a URL to a PDF file; if that
        is impossible, the submission can be sent as an email attachment. The
        preferred layout is the two-column AAAI standard.
       
       
        WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
       
        Rino Falcone - ISTC-CNR - Italy, rino.falcone at istc.cnr.it (contact person)
        Suzanne Barber - The University of Texas - USA
        Jordi Sabater-Mir - IIIA-CSIC - Spain
        Munindar Singh - North Carolina State University - USA
       
       
        WORKSHOP ORGANIZER TO CONTACT
       
        Rino Falcone - rino.falcone at istc.cnr.it
        tel. [phone]
        fax [phone]
        ISTC-CNR Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology
        Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44 - 00185 Roma - ITALY
       
       
        PROGRAM COMMITTEE
       
        Suzanne Barber - Computer Science, The University of Texas - USA
        Cristiano Castelfranchi - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research Council
        - Italy
        Rosaria Conte - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research Council - Italy
        Kerstin Dautenhahn - Computer Science, The University of Hertfordshire, U.K.
        Robert Demolombe - Computer Science, CERT/ONERA - France
        Rino Falcone - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research Council - Italy
        Catholijn Jonker - Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - The
        Netherlands
        Audun Josang - Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology,
        Australia
        Stephane Lo Presti - Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K.
        Andrea Omicini - Computer Science, Universit? di Bologna, Italy
        Jeremy Pitt - Computer Science, Imperial College London - UK
        Sarvapali D. Ramchurn - Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
        Javier Carb? Rubiera - Computer Science, University Carlos III de Madrid,
        Spain
        Jordi Sabater-Mir - Computer Science, IIIA-CSIC - Spain
        Giovanni Sartor - Law and sociology, University of Bologna - Italy
        Sandip Sen - Computer Science, University of Tulsa - USA
        Carles Sierra - Computer Science, CSIC - Spanish Scientific Research Council
        Munindar Singh - Computer Science- North Carolina State University - USA
        Chris Snijders - Sociology, Utrecht University - The Netherlands
        Yao-Hua Tan -Economics and Business Administration, Free University
        Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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