Please, take notice of the following event:
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Tutorial 12. Image & Reputation Among Autonomous Agents (May 28, PM)
Presenters : Rosaria Conte & Mario Paolucci
ABSTRACT:
Image and reputation are fundamental mechanisms for
enhancing altruism, negotiation, and cooperation among
autonomous agents. Image is to be intended as a (set of)
belief(s) that agents have about one another (in particular,
whether they are good or bad candidate partners for future
interactions) acquired from direct experience (either past
encounters or observed interactions). Reputation is to be
intended as the set of beliefs about others (whether these are
good or bad partners for future interactions) acquired indirectly,
from exchange of information about image. In other words,
reputation depends upon the transmission process that allows
one's given image to spread in a multi-agent system.
An extensive literature from the fields of (evolutionary)
game-theory, social dilemmas theory, multi-agent systems,
social simulation, and sociobiology will be summarised and
exemplars from each field will be discussed. Applications in the
field of agent-mediated interaction, with special reference to
e-commerce, personalised assistants, believable agents and
multi-agent systems will be addressed. Finally, the simulation
research carried on within the presenters' research group will
be analysed. Future directions of research will be discussed.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
The tutorial is addressed to scientists from the field of
agent-mediated interaction who especially deal with
autonomous agents endowed with interactive capacities.
Background competence includes Agent systems, Cognitive
modelling, Game- and rational action theory, Theories and
systems of coordination and cooperation in the multi-agent
field. Experience in computational and simulation modelling is
also appreciated.
For more info and registration, click on Totorials at the Conference site
http://autonomousAgents.org/2001
Montreal, Canada, Monday 28 May - Friday 1 June 2001
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The tutorial programme for Agents 2001 is now finalised. Tutorials
will take place on the 28th May, and it is possible to register for
tutorials without attending the rest of the conference.
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
email: [log in to unmask] - http://www.ip.rm.cnr.it/iamci
University of Siena - Communication Sciences - "Social Psychology"
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