1st CfP: AT 2012 First International Conference on Agreement Technologies

[George Vouros]

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C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S

AT 2012
First International Conference on Agreement Technologies

October 15 - 16, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia
http://at2012.tel.fer.hr/
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AIMS & SCOPE ========================

Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous  
software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of  
humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent  
may choose whether to fulfil an agreement or not, and it should fulfil  
it when there is an obligation to do so derived from the standing  
agreements. Autonomy, interaction, mobility and openness are key  
concepts studied within the Agreement Technologies approach.

Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organisations,  
trust and reputation and several other technologies are part of the  
sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems. The first  
International Conference on Agreement Technologies is an  
interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and  
practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent  
and vibrant field. It provides an avenue to discuss and exchange new  
ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification  
of next generation open distributed systems centred on the notion of  
agreement among computational agents.

The conference is supported by COST Action IC0801 on Agreement  
Technologies.


TOPICS OF INTEREST ===================

- Argumentation, negotiation

- Trust and reputation

- Coordination and distributed decision making

- Computational Social Choice

- Semantic alignment

- Inter-theory Relations

- Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreement

- Agent Commitments

- Semantic Service Coordination

- Normative Systems

- Individual reasoning about norm adoption

- Collective deliberation about norm adoption

- Autonomic Electronic Institutions

- Group planning agreements

- Deliberative Agreement: social choice and collective judgment

- Evolution of organisational structures

- Social Intelligence

- Logics for Agreements

- Real-time agreements

- Agreement patterns

- Agreement technologies architectures, environments and methodologies

- Applications of agreement technologies (e.g. web service  
composition, contract automation, supply chain automation, sensor  
networks, etc.)


SUBMISSION DETAILS ===================

We encourge submission of original papers from the above-mentioned or  
other related areas.

Each submission should be in one of the following categories:

Full Papers:
Papers in this category should represent original and previously  
unpublished work that is currently not under review in any conference  
or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.
Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references and figures.

Position Papers:
Contributions in this category may represent either a summary of  
original work that has already been published in a conference or journal
(in this case submissions must include explicitly a reference to the  
already published work), or a summary of original results obtained as  
a product of STSMs funded by the Agreement Technologies Cost Action,  
or ongoing research that can lead to important contributions to  
Agreement Technologies. Submissions in this category should not exceed  
2 pages.


All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to  
the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions must be done via easychair at  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=at2012

All papers will be reviewed.
The conference proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org.
We also plan a special issue of an ISI ranked Journal for
extended versions of high-quality papers describing original, novel  
research.
Further details will be announced soon.


IMPORTANT DATES =======================

Abstracts due: June 20, 2012

Full papers due: June 25, 2012

Notification: July 20, 2012

Camera-ready submission:  September 9, 2012

AT-2012 conference: October 15-16, 2012



CONFERENCE OFFICIALS ===================

Conference Chair:
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Programme Chairs:
Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, UK)
George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Local Chairs and Organisation:
Gordan Jezic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Mario Kusek, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marin Lujak, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Tanja Grzilo, University of Zagreb, CAAS Dubrovnik, Croatia

CONTACT ===============================

Email: at2012 at agreement-technologies.eu
Web:   http://at2012.tel.fer.hr/

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