>From: Gabriela Lindemann <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:19:11 +0200 (MET DST)
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>Subject: Call for papers: MASHO
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>                       SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>                            Workshop on
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>    MODELLING ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES and HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS
>                           - MASHO -
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>             (http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/masho-ws)
>
>                         To be held at the
>                    14th European Conference on
>                Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000)
>                     August 20th-25th, 2000
>                         Berlin, Germany
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>  Important Dates
>
>  Deadline for arrival of submissions:   7 April 2000
>  Notification of acceptance:            10 May 2000
>  Revised camera-ready due:              12 June 2000
>
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>   The workshop "Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations"
>   is a one-day event that will be held at the occasion of ECAI-2000
>   in Berlin, Germany. This workshop aims to present first results in the
>   very new field of Socionics. It is concerned with the structure and
>   behaviour of hybrid and artificial agent societies. Agent oriented
>   approaches are to be used in the modelling of the distributed hybrid
>   and artificial organizations as well as in the description self-organi-
>   zation and emergence of social characteristics. The workshop shall
>   bring together both researchers in DAI, related fields and Sociology.
>
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>  Introduction
>
>  In developing agents and multi-agent systems computer scientists have
>  used sociological terms like negotiation, interaction, contracts,
>  agreement, organization, cohesion, social order, and collaboration.
>  Meanwhile an interdisciplinary area called "Socionics" is in the
>  beginning to establish itself. In the last years researchers in
>  Artificial Intelligence, Sociology, Evolution Theory and Self-Organizing
>  Principles have shown interest in answers to questions like:
>
> * What have human and artificial societies in common?
> * How do we deal with the offer of interaction with artificial agents
>   and artificial multi-agent communities?
> * What can the DAI community do to get acceptance from "conventional"
>   users?
> * What are the main difficulties in designing hybrid societies?
> * What are the effects of growing involvement of artificial societies
>   in social life?
> * Where are the "walls" to handle artificial worlds?
> * How can we overcome the existing difficulties in using agent systems?
>
>  The workshop will consider organizational models by exploiting agent
>  technology for the simulation and evaluation of organizational
>  behaviour. Specific aspects of organizational structures,
>  for example, the different (sub)groups that can be distinguished within
>  an organization, the different roles in a group, and interaction between
>  roles, shall be investigated with respect to the involvement of
>  artificial partners. An organizational structure provides coordination
>  of the different individual actor and agent behaviours. An interesting
>  relation is the relation between an organization structure
>  specification, the dynamics of individual human and agents behaviour
>  (behavioural specification), and the emerging dynamics for the community
>  as a whole.
>  The workshop aims to exchange ideas on different aspects of agent-
>  oriented approaches in connection to organizational knowledge,
>  structures and behaviour.
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>  Topics
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>  * modelling of artificial and hybrid organizations
>  * agent behaviour in organizational structures
>  * commitment, responsibility and obligations in artificial and hybrid
>    societies
>  * semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
>  * requirements of agents in artificial and hybrid societies
>  * organizational roles
>  * adaptive organization models
>  * simulation of artificial and hybrid societies
>  * self organizing systems and emergent organization
>  * applications
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>  Submission Procedure
>
>  Those wishing to participate in the workshop should submit an original
>  research paper of up to 10 pages maximum to the address below.
>  Electronic submission in PostScript (Unix-compatible)is recommended,
>  but three single-sided hard copies are also accepted.
>  The proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Based on selected
>  workshop papers, we plan to edit a special issue of an AI journal.
>  Attendance will be limited to 40 participants. Attendees at the workshop
>  must also register for the main ECAI-2000 conference.
>
>
>   Submit to:    [log in to unmask]
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>              (electronic submissions preferred!)
>
>
>   or send three paper copies of the paper to:
>
>   Gabriela Lindemann
>
>   Humboldt University Berlin
>   Department of Computer Science
>   Rudower Chaussee 25
>   D-10099 Berlin, Germany
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>  Organization
>
>  Catholijn M. Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>  Ioan A.Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Co-chair)
>  Gabriela Lindemann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Co-chair)
>  Thomas Uthmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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>  Information on ECAI-2000:
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>        http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de
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>  Programme Committee
>
>  Mihai Barbuceanu, University of Toronto, Canada
>  Cristiano Castelfranchi, National Research Council, Italy
>  Rosaria Conte, National Research Council, Italy
>  Keith S Decker, University of Delaware, USA
>  Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
>  Peter Dittrich, University of Dortmund, Germany
>  Jacques Ferber, Universite Montpellier II, France
>  Klaus Fischer, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
>  Christian Freksa, University of Hamburg, Germany
>  Serge Galam, Universite Paris 6, France
>  Catholijn M Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>  Victor R Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
>  Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
>  Gabriela Lindemann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
>  Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany
>  Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
>  Jean-Pierre Muller, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
>  Sascha Ossowski, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
>  Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
>  Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
>  Dietrich Stauffer, University of Cologne, Germany
>  Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>  Thomas Uthmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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>  Contact
>
>  Gabriela Lindemann
>
>  Humboldt University Berlin
>  Department of Computer Science
>  Rudower Chaussee 25
>  D-10099 Berlin, Germany
>  Tel: + 49 +30 2093 3170
>  Fax: + 49 +30 2093 3168
>  e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Rosaria Conte

National Research Council, Institute of Psychology, V.LE Marx 15, 00137 Roma.
Division "AI, Cognitive and Interaction Modelling"
PSS (Project on Social Simulation) - voice:+39+06+86090210;fax:+39+06+824737
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University of Siena - Communication Sciences - "Social Psychology"




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