Dear List readers,

a reminder that the closing date for submissions for the Special Section of 
JASSS on Reputation in Agent Societies is the 28th of Feb 2005.



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Original call:

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Call for Papers -  Special Section of the Journal of Artificial  
Societies and Social Simulation on
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   “Reputation in Agent Societies”

Selected (post)proceedings of the RAS 2004 workshop will be published  
in a special section of JASSS  (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html). 
There is also an  opportunity for additional contributions, which must be 
related to the  topic of the workshop (see the original Call for Papers 
copied below,  or http://www.istc.cnr.it/labss/ras/ ). Papers that respond to 
the  presentations made at the workshop are especially welcome.

Papers of 5-8,000 words must be emailed to the guest editors of the  
special section, Mario Paolucci <[log in to unmask]> and Jordi  
Sabater <[log in to unmask]>, by  February 28th, 2005.    
Contributors should carefully follow the formatting recommendations at  
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html.  In addition to the  
full version, an anonymised version, suitable for sending to referees,  
should be attached to the submission email as a PDF document.

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“Reputation in Agent Societies”

Thanks especially to the impulse coming from the agents domain, reputation is 
in the process of rising up to the status of a well-defined scientific topic.

Presently, reputation is increasingly at the centre of attention in many 
fields of science and domains of application, including but not reduced to 
economics, organisations science, policy-making, (e-)governance, cultural 
evolution, social dilemmas, socio-dynamics, innofusion, etc. However, there 
is a great deal of ad hoc models, and little integration of instruments for 
the implementation, management and optimisation of reputation. On one hand, 
entrepreneurs and administrators deem it possible to manage corporate and 
firm reputation without contributing to or accessing a solid, general and 
integrated body of scientific knowledge on the subject matter. On the other 
hand, software designers believe they can design and implement online 
reputation reporting systems without investigating what the properties, 
requirements and dynamics of reputation in natural societies and why it did 
evolve for.

What is still missing is the merging of the several disciplines approaching 
and exploiting reputation in an interdisciplinary integrated approach, which 
accounts for the social cognitive mechanisms and processes.  
The focus on an emergent scientific topic provides essential guidelines for 
designing or shaping emergent technologies: reputation is both an emergent 
topic of science and an emergent technology. This workshop aims to promote 
high inter-disciplinary collaboration to get to the following advances: 
-Integrated theory of reputation as an intelligent artifact
-Accounting for mechanisms, properties and social dynamics of reputation
-Allowing a theory-driven design of emergent technologies of reputation for 
solving societal problems.

In the view of the editors of this special section, reputation is an old 
artefact for answering a new challenge, and that is the regulation of 
complex, global, electronic societies. Innovation demands that the potential 
of old instruments are fully understood and exploited, in order to be 
incorporated into novel, intelligent technologies. 

Topics

Submissions are expected from within different communities, especially agent 
societies and technology, in particular multi-agent systems and agent-based 
simulation, economics, organisation science and management, 
e-governance/learning/business, virtual societies and markets social 
cognition, economics, (evolutionary) game theory, cultural evolution, social 
and collective dilemmas, social dynamics and cultural evolution, business 
ethics. Topics include but are not limited to: 
-Corporate and firm reputation 
-Reputation-based e-government, e-learning, e-business 
-Reputation for partner selection 
-Image and reputation 
-Reputation management and optimization 
-Reputation and social networks 
-Reputation and norms 
-Reputation and altruism, reciprocity, and cooperation 
-Reputation and trust 
-Reputation and exchange 
-Reputation and institutions 
-Reputation and social capital 

Timetable - Submission details

-Paper submission deadline February 28th - 2005. Papers should be e-mailed 
both to Mario Paolucci <[log in to unmask]> and Jordi Sabater 
<[log in to unmask]> by midnight (GMT) on the February 28th. 

-The full manuscript have to be submitted in the format recommended at 
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html.

-An anonymous version (i.e. without authors, affiliations or acknowledgements) 
is also needed for revisions in PDF format. 

-The article can be from 5,000 to 8,000 words in length.

Editors

Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater

LABSS - LABoratory of Agent Based Social Simulation
ISTC - Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology
CNR - National Research Council, Rome, Italy