Request of dissemination / AT 2013 Conference

[Carlos Iván Chesñevar]

Dear List administrators,
As one of the conference chairs of the AT 2013 Conference,
URL:  http://www.ia.urjc.es/at2013/
I would like to disseminate the CFP included below.
Best wishes and thanks for your help!
Carlos.-



Subject:  2nd Intl. Conf on Agreement Technologies 2013 - Call for
Papers - Beijing, China, Aug. 1-2, 2013.


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C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S  (preliminar version)

AT 2013
Second International Conference on Agreement Technologies
August 1 - 2, 2013 in Beijing, China
URL:  http://www.ia.urjc.es/at2013/

Paper Deadline (tentative): April 22,  2013
Notification of Acceptance (tentative):  May 27, 2013
Camera Ready copy (tentative). June 7, 2013

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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 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.

Following the successful outcome of the  first edition of the
International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012) in
Dubvrovnik, Croatia last year, we are now organising the Second
edition of the event in Beijing, China. AT-2013 will be co-located
with IJCAI 2013 at the Beijing International Convention Centre (BICC).
IJCAI will commence on August 3rd, right after the end of AT-2013.




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TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Argumentation and 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.)



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SUBMISSION DETAILS

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

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.

All papers will be reviewed. We are currently analyzing the
possibility of publishing a LNCS Proceeding associated with the
Conference Proceedings. 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.

Submissions must be done via Easychair; the submission link will be
published shortly.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Leila Amgoud, Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research, France
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Italian National Research Council -
Instititute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
Marco Colombetti, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Maria Ganzha, University of Gdansk, Poland
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Gordan Jezic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vicente Julian, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Antonios Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mario Kusek, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Merik Meriste, University of Tartu, Estonia
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences - Systems Research
Institute, Poland
Marco Schorlemmer, Spanish National Research Council - The Artificial
Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland, Switzerland
Carles Sierra, Spanish National Research Council - The Artificial
Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Kuldar Teveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK
Denis Trcek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laszlo Varga, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - The Computer and
Automation Research Institute, Hungary
Harko Verhagen, Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm
University/KTH, Sweden
Emil Weydert, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Dr. Carlos I. Chesñevar
Secretario de Investigación y Posgrado
Departamento de Cs. e Ing. de la Computación
Universidad Nacional del Sur - Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Tel. +54-291-459-5135 interno 2603
Email: cic at cs.uns.edu.ar