Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)
KES-AMSTA 2012 Special Session, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 June 2012
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~ndra/TruMAS12
Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

IMPORTANT DATES

5 February 2012  Submission of papers
22 February 2012 Notification of acceptance
7 March 2012 Camera ready
25-27 June 2012 TruMAS and KES-AMSTA

WORKSHOP AIM AND SCOPE

The rapid development of computer-based technologies has made computers more and more complex and ubiquitous. Many computer-based systems are in charge of critical tasks such as, to mention only a few, the management of financial and medical databases, the monitoring of nuclear plants, the flying of airplanes, etc. Multi-agent systems (MAS) have been proposed as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing open and distributed software systems. The foundational idea behind a Multi-Agent System is to have a loosely coupled network of software agents (i.e., sophisticated computer programs that act autonomously on behalf of their users) which interact to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities or knowledge of each single agent. Therefore, it is not surprisingly MAS have received a lot of attention as reference computing paradigm to tackle complexity in modern computer-based systems.

However, the complexity of modern computer-based systems as well as their numerous applications has inherently increased the challenges for ensuring trustworthiness. Trustworthiness encompasses vital characteristics of a system such as safety (the non-occurrence of catastrophic consequences for the environment the system works in), security (the non-occurrence of unauthorized disclosure of information), integrity (the non-occurrence of inadequate information alteration), availability (the readiness for correct service of the system), reliability (the property of the system to continuously provide service) or more generically dependability. The overall trustworthiness of a system is connected to all the aforementioned properties and should be regarded holistically. Functional correctness, security, safety, reliability are facets that have to be ensured for the system's components as well as for the system as a whole.

The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS 2012) aims at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in all the different aspects of trust, dependability and security in Multi-Agent Systems. The workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, notations, languages and tools for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems. The overall goal is to explore the different facets of trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems, how every single aspect can be fostered, and how they relate.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Trust and reputation models, metrics and assessment in Multi-Agent Systems
- Dependability facets in Multi-Agent Systems
- Fault-tolerance and robustness in Multi-Agent Systems
- Architectures for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure communication in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Software engineering methodologies for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Security and access control in open Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-configuration and adaptation
- Formal methods and frameworks to model, analyze, prove, or measure aspects of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Industrial experiences in the adoption of trust-based Multi-Agent Systems approaches
- Rigorous software development to ensure trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems

Since the overall goal of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems includes the investigation of several cross- disciplinary issues such as a deep understanding of trust vs. trustworthiness, trust-based approaches, dependability, etc..., a synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines is needed. For this reason, although the workshop seems naturally focused on multi-agent issues, contributions from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication sciences, as well as from computer science specific sub-disciplines such as software engineering and dependability are welcomed and encouraged.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted full papers must not exceed 10 pages in length, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Papers can be submitted using the PROSE Online Paper Submission system available on the KES-AMSTA'12 Web site. Please remember to select the TruMAS invited session entry in the "Session Name" drop-down box when submitting your paper.

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available on the Springer Web site (Information for LNCS Authors).

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen for presentation based on their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and participate presenting the paper.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

CHAIRS

Nicola Dragoni
DTU Informatics
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
ndra@imm.dtu.dk

Manuel Mazzara
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University, UK
manuel.mazzara@newcastle.ac.uk

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Faycal Abouzaid, CRAC, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada
Enrico Denti, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Nicoletta Fornara, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Katsuhide Fujita, Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Mauro Gaspari, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Giorgini, Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), University of Trento, Italy
Nathan Griffiths, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Koji Hasebe, Academic Computing & Communications Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Waqar Jaffry, Department of Artificial Intelligence, VU University, The Netherlands
Andrew J I Jones, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Hernan Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eugen Staab, imc AG, Germany
Daniel Villatoro, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Mirko Viroli, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2012)

            10th International Workshop on
             Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
                             (DALT 2012)

                          4 or 5 June 2012

                           Valencia, Spain
                (held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012)

         URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/

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The workshop  on Declarative Agent Languages  and Technologies (DALT),
in  its tenth  edition this  year,  is a  well-established forum  for
researchers  interested  in  sharing  their experiences  in  combining
declarative  and  formal approaches  with  engineering and  technology
aspects  of agents  and  multiagent systems.   Building complex  agent
systems calls for models  and technologies that ensure predictability,
allow for  the verification of properties,  and guarantee flexibility.
Developing  technologies  that can  satisfy  these requirements  still
poses  an  important   and  difficult  challenge.   Here,  declarative
approaches  have the  potential of  offering solutions  satisfying the
needs   for  both  specifying   and  developing   multiagent  systems.
Moreover,  they  are gaining  more  and  more  attention in  important
application   areas  such  as   the  semantic   web,  service-oriented
computing, security,  and electronic contracting.

DALT 2012 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2012, the 11th
International  Joint Conference  on Autonomous  Agents  and Multiagent
Systems,  in June  2011 in Valencia, Spain.   Following the  success of
nine previous editions, DALT will again aim at providing a discussion
forum to  both (i) support  the transfer of declarative  paradigms and
techniques  to   the  broader  community  of   agent  researchers  and
practitioners, and (ii) to bring  the issue of designing complex agent
systems  to  the  attention  of  researchers  working  on  declarative
languages and technologies.

DALT 2012 will have as a special interest topics those future trends of
the web, where declarative languages and technologies for multiagents
systems will play an effective role: in particular, social computing
(models of social interactions, trust, commitments, and contracts;
social  environments based on declarative technologies) and its related
semantic issues (explicit representation of knowledge and mechanisms for
allowing societies of agents to reason on that).

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DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social
computing
* models of social interactions among agents
* models of buiness interactions among agents
* models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents
* declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies
* social environments based on declarative technologies
* Semantic Web-aware declarative agents

General themes:
* specification of agents and multi-agent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems

Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
* game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
* semantics of agent communication
* model checking agents and multi-agent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification, verification, and reasoning

Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and
service-oriented computing

Applications of declarative techniques to:
* multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing
* agent-based grid computing
* security and trust in multi-agent systems
* e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social
networks, virtual organizations.

Evaluation of declarative approaches:
* experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies
* industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies

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We  welcome and  encourage  the submission  of high-quality,  original
papers, which  are not being submitted  simultaneously for publication
elsewhere.  Papers  should be written in  English, formatted according
to the Springer LNCS style,  and not exceed 16 pages. Paper submission
is electronic via the conference website.

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                         WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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Printed copies of  the proceedings will be available  at the workshop.
Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we are again
going to  consider the publication of formal  post-proceedings with an
international  publisher.   The post-proceedings  of  DALT 2003  (LNAI
2990), DALT 2004  (LNAI 3476), DALT 2005 (LNAI  3904), DALT 2006 (LNAI
4327),  DALT 2007 (LNAI  4897), DALT  2008 (LNAI  5397),  DALT 2009
(LNAI  5948), and DALT 2010 (LNAI 6619) have  been published  by
Springer-Verlag  in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

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                           IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline:                    28 February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10 April 2012
Workshop Date:                                4 or 5 June     2012

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                         WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
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Affective Computing (AC’2011)

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Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’2011)

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011

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The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters).

Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents).

The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions.

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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Affective Computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of emotions

Individual Emotion recognition

Social Web

Personality in Agents Architectures

Group Emotion

Emotion and learning

Artificial characters

Affect and emotion recognition

Emotion and memory

Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction;

Using reputation and trust models in social interactions

Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions

Infrastructure and policy for affective computing

Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems

Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies

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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format.

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011 conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the Affective Computing.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011

Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011

Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011

EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011

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PUBLICATION

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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs.

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published book.

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Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal)

Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA)

Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal)

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2nd International Conference on Reputation (ICORE 2011)

2nd International Conference on
                           Reputation
                          (ICORE 2011)
           Montpellier, France, September 19th, 2011

                     http://2011.icore.name

                         co-located with
                           ESSA 2011



IMPORTANT DATES


** Abstract submission: June, 1st, 2011 **
Full papers required on 15 June.
Notification of acceptance: 10 July.
The conference will take place on 19 September.

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The second International Conference on *Reputation*: 'Society,
Economy, Trust' follows the success of the first edition
(http://2009.icore.name) as a point of convergence in the
interdisciplinary study of reputation.

The study of reputation and gossip is paramount in many fields of the
social sciences, for example organization science, policy-making,
(e-)governance, cultural evolution, social dilemmas, socio-dynamics,
and sociobiology. Interest in reputation is increasing in philosophy,
psychology, social psychology, sociology, and cognitive science;
formal models appear in game theoretical, mathematical, and physics
journals; computational reputation systems are among the most studied
subjects in multi-agent technology and social simulations.

Our objective is that of providing a common ground for all the
interested disciplines to share techniques and ideas on a stage where
the selection process approach is founded not on one specific method,
and even less on established practices and rituals, but rather on an
open-minded scientific approach to the the object of study.

This year, the  conference focuses on the foremost of Reputation's
relative, trust, and their effects together on the economy, and on the
society as a whole. What is the link between reputation and trust on
one side, and social well-being, equality and happiness on the other?
We invite contributions on reputation and trust, and how these come to
affect the society of agents that use them, ranging from web
reputation platforms to informal models of gossip. Trust and
reputation as means to build social capital and to overcome inequality
and misunderstandings are deeply needed from society just now.


TOPICS


We invite papers from all scientific communities working on reputation.

Topics for ICORE 2011 include but are not limited to:

   * Theory of reputation
   * Simulation of reputation
   * Computational models of reputation
   * Agent reputation models
   * Ontologies of reputation
   * Logical formalization of reputation
   * Experimental evidence of reputation diffusion
   * Reputation-based e-government, e-learning, e-business
   * Reputation in p2p systems
   * Reputation in grid environments
   * Reputation for partner selection
   * Incentives in reputation mechanisms
   * Image and reputation
   * Reputation management and optimisation
   * Reputation and social networks
   * Reputation and norms
   * Reputation and altruism, reciprocity, and cooperation
   * Reputation and trust
   * Reputation for sabotage tolerance in large-scale applications
   * Reputation and exchange
   * Reputation and institutions
   * Reputation and social capital
   * Corporate and firm reputation
   * Reputation and peer review
   * Reputation, trust, and societal cohesion
   * Reputation, trust and equality


SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS

Please check the conference website (http://2011.icore.name) where
detailed information on how to submit papers will appear.

Submission is in two steps: extended abstract first, followed by an
open discussion phase, then full paper. See important dates above.

REVIEW CRITERIA

Papers should present novel ideas related to reputation, clearly
motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
We expect claims to be substantiated by theoretical or formal
analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on.
Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application
papers are expected to address an indication of the real world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of
the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance,
usability, or superiority to alternative approaches.

Special Issue on Agent Communication

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Agent Communication
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Agent communication research seeks to address challenges in the
development of applications involving multiple autonomous and
heterogeneous agents. Agent communication differs from communication
as studied in traditional distributed systems in its emphasis of
high-level abstractions that enable flexible interaction yet support
verifying compliance. Broad applications include business
interactions, contracts and compliance, virtual enterprises,
negotiation, argumentation and decision support, and so on.

We invite quality submissions that develop new insights, high-level
abstractions, patterns, languages, formal theories, reasoning, and
methodologies for communication in multiagent systems.

Broad topics include

Protocols
Dialogs and argumentation
Virtual organizations, institutions
Commitments, norms, and other social concepts
Trust and deception
Correctness properties and their verification
Tying communication with agent design and execution strategies
Architecture, middleware, patterns, and programming language support
Standardization of communication primitives
Application-specific modeling and insights

Key Dates
*July 25, 2010 - Submissions*
October 15, 2010 - Decisions
December 15, 2010 - Final versions
Publication - Early 2011

Submission
On-Line Submission (will be available before July 25, 2010):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select Special Issue:
Agent Communication as the manuscript type).

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers.
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on at
http://tist.acm.org/

Guest Editors

Amit K. Chopra (also Contact editor)
University of Trento, Italy
chopra@disi.unitn.it

Alexander Artikis
National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece
a.artikis@iit.demokritos.gr

Jamal Bentahar
Concordia University, Canada
bentahar@ciise.concordia.ca

Frank Dignum
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
dignum@cs.uu.nl 

EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2010)

                   FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
               for the 5th International and
                   ECAI 2010 Workshop on

          EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2010)

             16-17 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

                http://exact2010.workshop.hm

        ** Paper submission deadline: May 7, 2010 **


Both within AI systems and in interactive systems, the ability to explain reasoning processes and results can substantially affect system usability. For example, in recommender systems good explanations may help to inspire user trust and loyalty, increase satisfaction, make it quicker and easier for users to find what they want, and persuade them to try or buy a recommended item.

Current interest in mixed-initiative systems provides a new context in which explanation issues may play a crucial role. When knowledge-based systems are partners in an interactive socio-technical process, with incomplete and changing problem descriptions, communication between human and software systems is a central part. Explanations exchanged between human agents and software agents may play an important role in mixed-initiative problem solving.

Other disciplines such as cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy of  science, psychology, and education have investigated explanation as well. They consider varying aspects, making it clear that there are many  different views of the nature of explanation and facets of explanation to explore. Within the field of knowledge-based systems, explanations have been considered as an important link between humans and machines. There, their main purpose has been to increase the confidence of the user in the system’s result, by providing evidence of how it was derived. Additional AI research has focused on how computer systems can use explanations themselves, for example to guide learning.

This workshop series aims to draw on multiple perspectives on explanation, to examine how explanation can be applied to further the development of robust and dependable systems and to illuminate system processes to increase user acceptance and feeling of control.

If you would like to participate in discussions on this topic or like to receive further information about this workshop you might consider joining the Yahoo!-group
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/explanation-research.
Information on explanation research is also collected here:
 http://on-explanation.net.


GOALS AND AUDIENCE
We invite original contributions to the research on explanations from a variety of areas and communities such as computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy of science, psychology, and education. In addition to presentations and discussions of invited contributions and invited talks, this workshop will offer organised and open sessions for targeted discussions and creating an interdisciplinary community. Demonstration sessions will provide the opportunity to showcase explanation-enabled/-aware applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Suggested topics for contributions (not restricted to IT views):
* Models for explanations / explanation representation languages
* Integrating application and explanation knowledge
* Explanation-awareness in applications and software design
* Methodologies for developing explanation-aware systems
* Learning to explain
* Context-aware explanation vs. explanation-aware context
* Confidence and explanations
* Security, trust, and explanation
* Requirements and needs for explanations to support human understanding
* Explanation of complex, autonomous systems
* Co-operative explanation
* Explanation exchange among intelligent agents
* Explanation visualisation

Submissions on additional topics are welcome as well.


SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only, using the EasyChair submission system linked from the workshop website.

Papers must be written in English and not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and the ECAI conference and present  the contribution in order to be published in the workshop  proceedings. The organising committee is considering editing a special issue of an appropriate international journal (e.g., Kluwer’s Knowledge-based Systems, Elsevier’s Expert Systems with Applications, or Springer’s Information System Frontiers) depending on the number and quality of the submissions.

Those wishing to participate providing a live system demonstration should submit a proposal (1-2 pages).

Those wishing to participate without paper or demo submission should submit a brief synopsis of their relevant work or at least a brief statement of interest.

All accepted papers will be published as ECAI workshop notes as well as electronically at http://CEUR-WS.org.

If you have questions please contact the chairs using the following email address: chairs@exact2010.workhop.hm.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:                     May 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance:              June 7, 2010
Camera-ready versions of papers:         June 20, 2010
ExaCt Workshop:                          August 16-17, 2010


WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The schedule will be made available on the workshop website. See the workshop website for an agenda overview and links to past workshops.


INVITED TALKS
Talks by two invited speakers, each representing a different community addressing explanation issues, are planned.


CHAIRS
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
thomas.roth-berghofer at dfki de

David B. Leake, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA
leake at cs indiana edu

Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen
n.tintarev at abdn ac uk

DEMO CHAIR
Daniel Bahls, MIMOS BERHAD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
daniel.bahls at mimos my


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
David W. Aha, Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, Washington DC, USA
Martin Atzmüller, University of Würzburg, Germany
Patrick Brézillon, LIP6, France
Jörg Cassens, University of Lübeck, Germany
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pierre Grenon, KMI, The Open University, UK
Anders Kofod-Petersen, SINTEF, Norway
Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Hector Muñoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas, El Paso, USA
Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Michael M. Richter, University of Calgary, Canada
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada

Workshop on New Frontiers in Service-Oriented Computing

Workshop on New Frontiers in Service-Oriented Computing
 
                                 In conjunction with
                        The Fifth International Conference on
                 P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud, and Internet Computing 
                                   (3PGCIC'2010)
 
                          November 4-6, 2010, Fukuoka, Japan
                 
                   http://serviceware.insa-lyon.fr/nfsoc/index.html 
 

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES 
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The widespread use of Internet technologies has an important impact on the way organizations deal with their partners and customers. To remain competitive, organizations are under pressure to take advantage of the information revolution that the Internet and the Web have brought about. Most organizations are adopting Web-based approaches for more automation, efficient business processes, personalization, and worldwide visibility.
 
Service-Oriented Computing design principles and their implementation technologies such as Web services, JBI, and SCA could help organizations to become more Web-oriented. This should result in building interoperable business applications that can cross organizational boundaries. The development of different industry standards, products and tools for supporting service-based  system design and development is advancing at a very rapid rate. Despite all the efforts that are put into Service-Oriented Computing research and development, many organizations still struggle with how to make their core business operations comply with Service-Oriented Computing principles.
 
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the recent and significant developments in the field of Service-Oriented Computing. The workshop will provide a forum for articles that tackle challenges related to specification, modeling, design, development and deployment of Service-Oriented Computing-based solutions.
 
TOPICS
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Topics of interest for each of the main research tracks of the 2009 conference edition include, but are not  limited to:
  * Foundations of Services Computing
       Formal methods for services computing
       Services composition
       Services delivery
       Services discovery
       Services modeling
       Services science 
 
  * Service-centric Computing Models
       Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
       SOA industry solutions
       SOA industry standards
       SOA solution stack
 
  * Service Computing Management 
  Service Governance
  Service Monitoring 
  Trust and Security
  Risk assessment and Mitigation  
  Performance and Evaluation
 
 
  * Service Applications
  Software as a Service 
 Business, Educational and finance Services
    Application integration services
       Service computing process modeling
 Service transformation and integration
       Service level automation and orchestration
 Software architecture development and deployment
       
 
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. All submissions should comply with the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the workshop
Web site and will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: April 30, 2010 
Notification of Acceptance: June 31, 2010 
Camera-Ready Submission: September 15, 2010
Conference days: November 4-6, 2010 
 
ORGANIZERS
==============================
Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Zhongjie Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 
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For more information about FSOC please visit the workshop home page at
http://serviceware.insa-lyon.fr/nfsoc/index.html 

Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering  
(IJITWE)
 
Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks
(http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4768&v=callForPapersSpecial)
 
Submission Due Date: May 2, 2010
 
Guest Editors
Yacine Atif
Youakim Badr
Youcef Baghdadi
Hamdi Yahyaoui
Zakaria Maamar
 
Introduction
With the popularity of Web-based applications, and widespread use of advanced mobile devices, socializing over the Web has become an integral part of our daily lives. Web 2.0 technologies have further fueled new collaborative applications leading to a new "social" dimension based on which new Web content is being produced and disseminated. This social dimension and new Web content developments led to a flurry of new applications and speculations on their potential to revolutionize future enterprises. Given how enthusiastically people have embraced social networks on the Web such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, new models of social networks could also have a room within the enterprise. Already, some enterprises have deployed many of them to increase collaboration and communication among employees. However, these dominating social-networking Web applications lack some tools that would make them truly efficient enterprise solutions. Sparked by consumer use, could social networks become an enterprise trend as well? Would market shares be influenced? Will employees adopt new practices with the infiltration of social networks in the enterprise? Do we need to deploy new tools/infrastructure/framework? How well this form of socialization benefit enterprises? Could it liberate workforces from the constraints of raditional emails? And, could social networks become a B2B phenomenon?
 
 
Objective of the Special Issue
This special issue provides a forum for addressing the innovative opportunities, which are emerging from the confluence of Web 2.0 developments and social network applications in enterprise contexts. In this special issue, we solicit visionary as well as technology and application papers, which address Web-based social networks implications on future enterprises. Particular emphasis will be given  
to papers discussing data sharing scenarios, novel technologies or methodologies for building and managing enterprise social networks. We also welcome contributions relating to particular types of applications as well as to cross-cutting issues. This special issue journal aims at catalyzing new collaborations between academia and business operators, focusing on next generation Web empowered enterprises, which incorporates new Web-based ideas of collaboration  
as well as consumers and business partners Web empowerment.
 
 
Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
 
- Web-based Social Network Design and Evolution
- Modeling social networks on the Web
- Web Architectures of social network
- Evolution and growth mechanisms of Web based social networks
- Online communities
- Information diffusion in social networks
- Recommendation models in Web-based the social network
- Web-based Social networking for enterprises
- Social network of agents, services, or resources on the Web
- Intelligence Emergence from Social Network
- Web based collaboration
- Web-based 3D environments (Second Life)
- Social Security and Trust
- Trustworthy social networks
- Security and privacy of social networks
- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Data protection in Web communities
- Modeling trust and reputation in Web ñbased social networks
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Access control policies
- Intellectual property in Web 2.0
- Network geography
- Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
- Web-based Social geography
- International Collaborations in e-Social networks
- Data and workflow provenance in Web 2.0
- Cloud computing
- Virtual worlds
- Evaluation
- Social networking management and monitoring
- Visualization of social networking on the Web
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Web-enabled Social advertising
- Use of social networks for e-marketing.
- Search algorithms on social networks
- Web-based test collection
- Benchmark creation
- Measures and methodologies
- Data mining analysis of blogs
 
 
Submission
To view the full guidelines for submission, please visit the following page: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp
 
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
 
Dr. Yacine Atif
Point of Contact
Email: Yacine.Atif@uaeu.ac.ae
_

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010 and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in forming future generations of researchers to maintain the excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced), duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in 2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086), and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors' travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction (but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon (very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani (mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing

Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

               June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands

                              http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/

IMPORTANT DATES:

- April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due
- April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
- May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation

PUBLICATION:

We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation. Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format. Papers should not be more 6000 words. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. 
 

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference.

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular, when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests.

The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with emotions and moods in human-human interactions.

In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges:

models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent, conflict handling styles, experimental methods.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
 

- Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance)
- Argumentation for negotiation
- Negotiation interaction
- Learning in negotiation
- Negotiation domain knowledge
- Case studies
- Preference elicitation
- Qualitative preferences
- Incomplete preferences
- Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge)
- Negotiation Support Systems
- User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems
- Human-machine negotiation
- Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus building
- Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five)
- Emotions in negotiation
- Cultural factors in negotiation
- Negotiation bidding advice
- Negotiation conflict styles
- Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice
- Negotiation applications
- E-commerce
- Methods and tools for negotiation tasks
- Design and Evaluation of support systems
- Conflict handling styles and consensus building
- HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation
 

Program Chairs:

Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Brooke Abrahams, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
Yakov Gal, Harvard University, US
Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gert Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Raz Lin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Steve Love, Brunel University, UK
Tom McEwan, Napier University, UK
Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates
Valentin Robu, University of Southamption, UK
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dmytro Tykhonov, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tim Verwaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.n

e-SMART CONFERENCE

*********************************************************************
e-SMART CONFERENCE      
September 22-24, 2010 - Sophia Antipolis French Riviera     
www.e-smart.eu

In the framework of SMART EVENT'10     
The Innovation Forum for Mobility and Trusted Technologies & Services    
**********************************************************************

CALL FOR PAPERS - SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS MARCH 15th, 2010        

e-Smart originating from the year 2000 Eurosmart Smart Card Security Conference and Java Card Forum Summer University is ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CONFERENCES IN THE GLOBAL SMART CARD AND DIGITAL SECURITY INDUSTRY. 

SCOPE     
******   
Established to focus on Smart Card technology innovations e-Smart has over the past few years ENLARGED ITS SCOPE TO ALSO COVER SMART SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES. Topics addressed include the ubiquitous cryptology domain, semiconductors for portable appliances, secure embedded software, trusted computing, high-level language programming such as Java Card, security design, implementation, testing and evaluation methodologies, TCP/IP based communication protocols and wireless technologies security.       

This ensures that e-Smart reflects novel Industry trends and remains at the cutting edge of security technologies development. In particular the conference is now open to, and collecting world-class security and technology experts from the wireless and contactless industry leaders, research laboratories and universities, industry associations, international standardization organizations and governmental bodies.        

The e-Smart Program Committee is expecting proposals from issuers, manufacturers, mobile operators, editors, academics, researchers, standardization bodies, professional institutions, end-users, consultants, analysts, lawyers...    
e-Smart Program Committee:        
www.smart-event.eu/10/e-smart/program-committee.htm 

TOPICS     
******
Submissions covering a broad range of topics related to smart cards and other digital security disciplines are encouraged. They may address one or more of the below mentioned topics, or others that authors believe to be of great interest to the audience.    

HARDWARE COMPONENTS & EMBEDDED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

> Smart Cards & Smart Secure Devices: 

  - Smart Secure Devices, Secure Mass Storage Cards, Trusted Personal Devices 
  - Mobile Trusted Computing & TPMs 
  - Innovative terminals and Trusted Appliances: Mobile Terminals & Equipments, PC, PDA, GPS,  etc.            

> Embedded SW Components & Technologies: 

  - Secure Operating Systems 
  - Trusted Virtual Platforms: Languages, Rapid Application Development) 
  - Java Card / 3.x & Next Generations      

SUSTAINING TECHNIQUES & INDUSTRY COOPERATION ORGANIZATIONS 

> Micro & nano Electronics and Emerging Semiconductor Technologies for Embedded Systems   
> Microprocessors & Crypto processors, Memories; other Secure Mass Storage Technologies      
> Smart Architectures: 

  - Innovations in Smart Cards and Trusted Personal Devices security       
  - Innovations in Security Specification, Testing and Evaluation Methods    
  - Cryptology & Cryptographic Implementations, Hardware & Software Advanced Ubiquitous Cryptography 
  - Formal Development Methods & Tools, Formal modeling of environments and Application 
  - Smart Packaging, Innovative Micro-Packaging    

> Smart Connectivity: Trusted Technologies & Protocols for Wireless, NFC & Contactless, RFID & Sensors Networks, USB Wireless, etc. Efficient Connectivity     
> Internet Secure Protocols on Mobile and Portable Appliances     
> Smart Security for WiMAX/LTE /4G systems and other Future Telecom & Networks implementations     
> Security Evaluation & Certification Criteria, Methods & Schemes    
> International Cooperative R&D Projects and Platforms   
> Standardization and Industry Associations' contribution    

INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING?     
*************************
All detailed information on this call for papers including the submission procedure available at:     
www.smart-event.eu/10/e-smart/calls.htm

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e-SMART, as well as the SMART MOBILITY and WORLD e-ID CONFERENCES, are part of the SMART EVENT, 
THE INNOVATION FORUM FOR MOBILITY AND TRUSTED TECHNOLOGIES & SERVICES    

--> More on Smart Event'10: www.smart-event.eu    

Should you be interested in submitting in the other 2 co-located conferences:    
- SMART MOBILITY, Building trusted mobile applications:     
www.smart-event.eu/10/smart-mobility/calls.htm
- WORLD e-ID, The next generation of e-ID management technologies and services:    
www.smart-event.eu/10/worlde-id/calls.htm
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Thank you to forward this Call for Papers to your colleagues that might be interested in these topics.    

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Message sent by Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia, 3 allee des Tilliers 93100 Montreuil - France - www.strategiestm.com - info@strategiestm.com    
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SoftNet 2010

===== Call for Submissions =======

SoftNet 2010, August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France

see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SoftNet10.html

SoftNet 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning the networks, software engineering, testing, validation, and simulation. SoftNet 2010 continues the tradition of well-established conferences ICSEA and ICSNC, while complementing the topics with CENTRIC, VALID, and SIMUL.

Submission (full paper) new deadline: March 20, 2010.

Submissions must be electronically done using the 'Submit a Paper' link on the entry page of each conference.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html.

For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers for each conference.

Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in Special issues of different journals mentioned on the entry page of each conference.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed via all the IEEE indexing agreements.

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

-- ICSEA 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSEA10.html

-- ICSNC 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSNC10.html

-- CENTRIC 2010, The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CENTRIC10.html

-- MultiA-Pro 2010, The First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MultiAPro.html

-- EuroCAT 2010, 4th Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy 
http://www.cat10.uni.lu/index.html

-- VALID 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/VALID10.html

-- SIMUL 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SIMUL10.html


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IARIA Publicity Board
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Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

================ CALL FOR PAPERS ==========================

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands

http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/

IMPORTANT DATES:

• April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due
• April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
• May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
• June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
• Models in Negotiation

PUBLICATION:

We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication
and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and
Computational Models in Negotiation. Articles describing novel ideas and
applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models
in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of
interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF
or postscript format. Papers should not be more 6000 words. Submission is
entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the
main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. 

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision
and Negotiation conference.

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process
aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily
activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective
negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help
make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular,
when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a
difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the
computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only
be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests.
The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that
negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a
human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to
support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with
emotions and moods in human-human interactions.

In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems
there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and
experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering
of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study
the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to
enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation
of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges:
models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and
strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation
performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion
and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user
interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent,
conflict handling styles, experimental methods.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
- Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance)
- Argumentation for negotiation
- Negotiation interaction
- Learning in negotiation
- Negotiation domain knowledge
- Case studies
- Preference elicitation
- Qualitative preferences
- Incomplete preferences
- Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge)
- Negotiation Support Systems
- User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems
- Human-machine negotiation
- Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus
building
- Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five)
- Emotions in negotiation
- Cultural factors in negotiation
- Negotiation bidding advice
- Negotiation conflict styles
- Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice
- Negotiation applications
- E-commerce
- Methods and tools for negotiation tasks
- Design and Evaluation of support systems
- Conflict handling styles and consensus building
- HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation

Program Chairs:
 

Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Brooke Abrahams - Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Reyhan Aydogan - Bogazici University, Turkey
Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology
Frank Dignum - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shaheen Fatima - Loughborough University, UK
Yakov Gal - Harvard University, US
Joseph Giampapa - Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gert Jan Hofstede - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mark Hoogendoorn - Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Raz Lin - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Steve Love - Brunel University, UK
Tom McEwan - Napier University, UK
Mark Neerincx - TNO, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan - British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Valentin Robu - University of Southamption, UK
Carles Sierra - IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Liz Sonenberg - University of Melbourne, Australia
Dmytro Tykhonov - Delft University of Technology
Tim Verwaart - Delft University of Technology
Hans Weigand - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow - Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl