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Call for Participation
1st International Symposium on Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS2005)
NorMAS2005 is a two 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 and Wednesday, April 13th.
The best papers of the symposium will be selected for publication in special
issues of Computational Intelligence and Computational & Mathematical
Organization Theory.
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
ACCEPTED PAPERS
a.. Towards Norm-Governed Self-Organising Networks, Lloyd Kamara and
Jeremy Pitt
b.. Beyond BDI? Brandomian commitments for multi-agent communication,
Rodger Kibble
c.. My Agents Love to Conform: Emotions, Norms, and Social Control in
Natural and Artificial Societies, Christian von Scheve, Daniel Moldt, Julia
Fix, Rolf von Lüde
d.. Normative KGP Agents: A Preliminary Report, Fariba Sadri, Kostas
Stathis, Francesca Toni
e.. Impact of Multiple Normative Systems on Organization Performance of
International Joint Ventures, Tamaki Horii, Yan Jin, Raymond E. Levitt
f.. A Normative Framework for Agent-Based Syste,s, Fabiola López y Lopéz,
Michael Luck, Mark d'Inverno
g.. Self-Organized Criticality and Norm Avalanches, Matthew J. Hoffmann
h.. Ontological Aspects of the Implementation of Norms in Agent-Based
Electronic Institutions, Davide Grossi, Huib Aldewereld, Javier
Vázquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum
i.. A Framework for the Design of Self-Regulation of Open Agent-based
Electronic Marketplaces, Christian Hahn, Bettina Fley, Michael Florian
j.. Formalizing Coalition Structures via Obligations, Luigi Sauro
k.. Increasing Software Infrastructure Dependability through a Law
Enforcement Approach, Gustavo Carvalho, Rodrigo Paes, Ricardo Choren, Paulo
Alencar, Carlos Lucena
l.. Towards a Mappng of Deontic Logic onto an Abductive Framework, Marco
Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, E. Lamma, Paola Mello, Paolo Torroni, Giovanni
Sartor
IMPORTANT DATES
22 January 2004: camera ready copies deadline
31 January 2005: early registration deadline
12-13 April 2005: NorMAS05
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.
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
André 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 2005 CONVENTION WEBSITE: http://aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk/
