Call for Participation
3rd
International Workshop
on Normative Multiagent Systems
(NorMAS 2008)
15-16 July, 2008
http://deon2008.uni.lu/normas08.html
Camera ready upload at website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas2008
Associated
with DEON 2008, 15-18 July, 2008
http://deon2008.uni.lu/
PROGRAM
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July 15 |
July 16 |
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8.30 |
registration DEON+NorMAS |
registration DEON+NorMAS |
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Norm Implementation |
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9.00 |
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Clara Smith and Antonino Rotolo. Collective trust and normative agents |
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9.30 |
Invited talk |
Valerio
Genovese, Roberto Grenna, Leon van der Torre and Matteo Baldoni. Adding
Organizations and Roles as Primitives to JADE Framework |
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by
Giovanni Sartor |
Carolina
Felicíssimo, Jean-Pierre Briot, Caroline Chopinaud and Carlos Lucena. DynaCROM: An
Approach to Implement Regulative Norms in Normative Multiagent Systems |
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10.30 |
coffee |
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Norm theory |
Norm theory |
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11.00 |
Guido
Governatori and Antonino Rotolo. Changing Legal
Systems: Abrogation and Annulment. Part II: Temporalised Defeasible
Logic |
Sindhu
Joseph, Pilar Dellunde, Marco Schorlemmer and Carles Sierra. Formalizing
Deductive Coherence: An Application to Norm Adoption |
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11.30 |
Laurence Cholvy and Stéphanie Roussel. Consistency and completeness of regulations |
Jose Carmo. Collective
action, direct action and dynamic operators |
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12.00 |
Davide Grossi, Dov Gabbay and Leon van der Torre. A Normative View on the Blocks World |
Allard
Tamminga and Barteld Kooi. Conditional Obligations in
Strategic Situations |
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12.30 |
lunch |
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13.00 |
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Norm dynamics |
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14.00 |
Giulia
Andrighetto, Marco Campenni, Federico Cecconi and Rosaria Conte. How Agents Find
out Norms: A Simulation Based Model of Norm Innovation |
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14.30 |
Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, Loris Penserini and
Virginia Dignum. Norm Dynamics in Adaptive
Organisations |
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15.00 |
Serena Villata. Institutional
Social Dynamic Dependence Networks |
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15.30 |
coffee |
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Trust |
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16.00 |
Andreas
Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Jomi Fred Hubner, Jonathan Ben-Naim, Cristiano
Castelfranchi, Robert Demolombe, Dominique Longin and Laurent
Vercouter. Prolegomena for a logic of trust and reputation |
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16.30 |
Joris Hulstijn. Need to Know: Questions and the Paradox of Epistemic Obligation |
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17.00 |
Tiago de Lima, Lambèr Royakkers and Frank Dignum. Towards a formalization of responsibility |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Norms are
essential for artificial agents that are to display behaviour
comparable to
human intelligent behaviour or collaborate with humans. Norms play a
central
role in many social phenomena such as coordination, cooperation,
decision-making, etc. There is an increasing interest in the role of
norms in
societies, both inside and outside the agent community. NorMAS
therefore
focuses on normative multiagent systems.
Normative
multiagent systems combine theories and frameworks for normative
systems with
multiagent systems. Thus, these systems provide a promising model for
human and
artificial agent co-ordination, because they integrate norms and
individual
intelligence. They are a prime example of the use of sociological
theories in
multiagent systems, and therefore of the relation between agent theory
and the
social sciences, e.g., sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science,
etc.
Normas08 follows
Normas05 and Normas07.
Normas05 was
held on April 12 and 13, 2005 at the University of Hertfordshire,
England as
part of AISB conventions organized by the Society of the Study of
Artificial
Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
(http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/aisb05/). The best papers were
presented
in a double special issue of Computational & Mathematical
Organization
Theory Journal of Springer
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/9508t27tr9279617).
Normas07 was
held on March 18-23, 2007 as the Dagstuhl Seminar 07122
(http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=07122). The
best
papers were presented in a forthcoming special issue of Journal of
Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (Springer).
NorMAS provides
an excellent opportunity to meet researchers studying norms in
cognitive
science, social sciences, agent theory, computer science, philosophy,
etc. to
discuss the current state and identify potential future directions and
research
issues.
NorMAS 2008
extends its focus on the traditional view of norms by introducing the
topic of
commitments, often used in MAS to model protocols.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of this workshop include, but are not restricted to, the following issues:
- multiagent or society level:
- balancing dynamics and statics at the agent (micro) and agent society (macro) level
- coordination based on normative multiagent systems
- emergence of conventions, norms, roles, and normative multiagent systems
- combining conventions with regulative, permissive, constitutive and other types of norms
- relation between NorMAS and contracts, security, and (electronic) institutions
- commitments vs obligations
- commitments, protocols and Agent Communication Languages
- agent level:
- alternatives to and extensions of the homo economicus and BDI logics
- extending logical frameworks to encompass norms in agent decision making
- how to implement theories of norms in artificial agents
- policies and commitments
- applications of NorMAS:
- multiagent social simulation models containing norms
- mixing artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
We welcome both theoretical work (formal models,
representations, specifications, logics, verification) and
implementation-oriented work (architectures, programming languages,
design
models, simulations, prototype systems) on these specific topics.
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit an original, previously
unpublished, research paper pertaining to any of these topics. The
paper should
be in English, and should be no longer than 15 pages, or approximately
7500
words. The first page should contain the full name and contact
information for
at least one of the authors, and it should contain an abstract of no
more than
ten lines. Authors should submit their papers electronically, in .pdf
format at the website : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas2008
Authors should consult the instructions on the website
for submitting their papers electronically. (Anyone who is unable to send the paper
electronically and wishes to
submit hard copies should inquire for details from one of the program
co-chairs
at the addresses given below.) Authors are especially
encouraged to use the Springer
LNCS styles if possible; these are available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The deadline for submission is March 15 2008.
TIMETABLE
March
15, 2008: submission deadline
April 20:
notification of acceptance
May 20:
deadline for final, camera-ready versions
July 15
and 16, 2008: NorMAS 2008 workshop
July 16-18,
2008: DEON'08 conference
PUBLICATION
Publication
will be provided to all participants. As in
the previous editions, a selection of papers will published in a special issue of a relevant journal.
INVITED
SPEAKER
Giovanni Sartor
GENERAL
AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Guido
Boella
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Torino
Torino
Italy
guido@di.unito.it
Gabriella Pigozzi
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
gabriella.pigozzi@uni.lu
Munindar P. Singh
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
USA
singh@ncsu.edu
Harko
Verhagen
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University.
Stockholm Sweden
verhagen@dsv.su.se
Program
Committee
Thomas
Agotnes, Bergen University College, Norway.
Olivier
Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France.
Rafael Bordini, Durham University, UK.
Jan
Broersen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Pompeu
Casanovas, UAB-Institute of Law and
Technology, Barcelona. Spain
Stephen Cranefield, U. of Otago. New Zealand.
Mehdi
Dastani, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Paul
Davidsson - BTH, Sweden.
Frank
Dignum, Utrecht University. The Netherlands.
Maria
Fasli - Essex University, UK.
Nicoletta Fornara, Università
della
Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland.
Aldo Gangemi ISTC-CNR Rome,
Italy.
Guido
Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia.
Davide
Grossi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jomi F. Hübner,
Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Brasil.
Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Michael Luck, King's College London, UK.
John-Jules
Ch. Meyer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Eric
Matson, Wright State University, USA).
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain.
Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade
do Porto,
Portugal.
Andrea Omicini, University of
Bologna,
Italy.
Sascha
Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Antonino Rotolo
University of Bologna, Italy.
Carles Sierra IIIA-CSIC, Spain.
Luca Tummolini ISTC-CNR, Italy.
Wiebe van der Hoek,
University of Liverpool, UK
ACCEPTED PAPERS
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Huib
Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, Loris Penserini and Virginia Dignum. Norm Dynamics in Adaptive Organisations |
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Giulia Andrighetto,
Marco Campenni, Federico Cecconi and Rosaria Conte. How Agents Find out Norms: A Simulation Based Model of
Norm Innovation |
|
Jose
Carmo. Collective action, direct action and
dynamic operators |
|
Laurence
Cholvy and Stéphanie Roussel. Consistency
and completeness of regulations |
|
Carolina Felicíssimo,
Jean-Pierre Briot, Caroline Chopinaud and Carlos Lucena. DynaCROM: An Approach to Implement Regulative Norms in
Normative Multiagent Systems |
|
Valerio Genovese,
Roberto Grenna, Leon van der Torre and Matteo Baldoni. Adding Organizations and Roles as Primitives to JADE
Framework |
|
Guido Governatori and
Antonino Rotolo. Changing Legal Systems: Abrogation and Annulment. Part
II: Temporalised Defeasible Logic |
|
Davide
Grossi, Dov Gabbay and Leon van der Torre. A
Normative View on the Blocks World |
|
Andreas
Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Jomi Fred Hubner, Jonathan Ben-Naim, Cristiano
Castelfranchi, Robert Demolombe, Dominique Longin and Laurent
Vercouter. Prolegomena for a logic of trust
and reputation |
|
Sindhu
Joseph, Pilar Dellunde, Marco Schorlemmer and Carles Sierra. Formalizing Deductive Coherence: An Application to Norm
Adoption |
|
Tiago de
Lima, Lambèr Royakkers and Frank Dignum. Towards
a formalization of responsibility |
|
Clara
Smith and Antonino Rotolo. Collective trust
and normative agents |
|
Allard
Tamminga and Barteld Kooi. Conditional
Obligations in Strategic Situations |
|
Serena
Villata. Institutional Social Dynamic
Dependence Networks |