1st International Symposium on Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS2005).
Submissions deadline: 31 October 2004
Publication: The best papers of the symposium will be selected for
publication in special issues of Computational Intelligence and
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory.
NorMAS2005 is a one day symposium part of the 2005 AISB convention. The
general theme for the AISB 2005 convention is "Social Intelligence and
Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents". It is held from April 12 to
April 2005 at the University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus,
Hatfield, England. AISB conventions are organized by the largest AI
society in the United Kingdom, SSAISB which stands for Society of the
Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.
NorMAS2005 will take place on Tuesday, April 12th.
DESCRIPTION OF NORMAS
Norms are essential for artificial agents that are to display behaviour
comparable to human intelligent behaviour or collaborate with humans,
because the use of norms is the key of human social intelligence. 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 as outside the agent
community. Now the time is ripe for a symposium focussing on this
central sociological concept given that the field of (multi)agent
research is moving more and more from the individual, cognitive focussed
agent models to models of socially situated agents. 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.
NorMAS2005, as part of AISB2005, will provide 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.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of this symposium include, but are not restricted to, the
following issues:
a.. multiagent or society level:
a.. balancing dynamics and statics at the agent (micro) and agent
society (macro) level
b.. coordination based on normative multiagent systems
c.. emergence of conventions, norms, roles, and normative multiagent
systems
d.. combining conventions with regulative, permissive, constitutive
and other types of norms
e.. relation between NorMAS and contracts, security, and
(electronic) institutions
b.. agent level:
a.. alternatives to and extensions of the homo economicus and BDI logics
b.. extending logical frameworks to encompass norms in agent
decision making
c.. how to implement theories of norms in artificial agents
c.. applications of NorMAS:
a.. multiagent social simulation models containing norms
b.. mixing artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
IMPORTANT DATES
31 October 2004: Submissions deadline
22 November 2004: Notification of authors
17 December 2004: camera ready copies deadline
14 January 2005: early registration deadline
12-15 April 2005: AISB2005 convention
PROCEEDINGS
The papers accepted for the symposium will be published in the AISB
proceedings. Moreover, the best papers will be selected for publication
in special issues of Computational Intelligence and Computational &
Mathematical Organization Theory.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The length of each paper including figures and references should not
exceed 12 pages. All papers must be submitted in PDF or postscript
format. A format description will be issued shortly. Papers are to be
send to the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The AISB format
is similar to the AAAI style format so you can use this. Since the AAAI
server is not always reliable, you might want to check a PDF file
containing a description at
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/swp04/aaai-latex-Instructions.pdf.
The style files are to found on our website as AAAI.sty and AAAI.bst.
For Word format, see: http://www.maics.us/examplesty.doc.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Guido Boella - Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino (co-chair)
Cristiano Castelfranchi - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies (ISTC), Italy
Paul Davidsson - BTH, Sweden
Andr� Meyer - TNO, Netherlands
Maria Fasli - Essex University, UK
Leendert van der Torre - CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands (co-chair)
Harko Verhagen - DSV, KTH/SU, Sweden (co-chair)
SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE: http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/aisb05/
AISB CONVENTION WEBSITE: http://aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk/
