| NorMAS 2016
- Call for papers | |
Important Dates
- Paper submission until: June 16, 2016. (extended)
- Notification of
Acceptance: June 29, 2016.
- Registration deadline: July 3rd, 2016.
- Workshop: August 29-30, 2016.
Motivation and Aims
Norms are crucial for studying both human social behaviour and for
developing distributed software applications. The term norms
has two meanings: we study and apply norms in the sense of being
normal (conventions, practice), and in the sense of rules and
regulations (obligations, permissions).
Normative systems are complex systems in which norms play a crucial
role. They need normative concepts in order to describe or specify
their behaviour. A normative multi-agent system combines models for
normative systems (dealing for example with conventions, or
obligations) with models for multi-agent systems (dealing with
coordination between individual agents).
Norms have been proposed in multi-agent systems and computer
science to deal with issues of coordination, security, electronic
commerce, electronic institutions and agent organization. They have
been fruitfully applied to develop simulation models for the social
sciences. However, due to the lack of a unified theory, many
researchers are presently developing their own ad hoc concepts and
applications.
The aim of this workshop is to stimulate interdisciplinary research
on normative concepts and their applications.
This year, the workshop will be co-located with ECAI 2016 and the 10th conference
on Collective Intentionality.
We welcome the interaction with those communities, but if you prefer,
you can register to the NorMAS workshop only.
Topics
We invite good quality research papers. The topics of this workshop
include, but are not restricted to
- multiagent or society level:
- connecting the agent
(micro) and society (macro) level
- coordination based on norms
- emergence of conventions, norms, and roles
- contracts,
security, accountability and electronic institutions
- commitments,
protocols and Agent Communication Languages
- argumentation systems
- agent level:
- alternatives to and extensions of
the homo economicus and BDI logics
- logical frameworks to
encompass norms in agent decision making
- implementing norms in
artificial agents
- policies and commitments
- applications:
- social simulation models of normative
behaviour
- information security and privacy protection
- mixing
artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
- governance
of complex organizations
Research Type
The NorMAS
community is multi-disciplinary. We welcome work from different
scientific backgrounds: theoretical work (formal models,
representations, specifications, logics, verification),
implementation-oriented work (architectures, programming languages,
design models, prototype systems) and empirical work (simulations,
case studies, surveys). Papers should contain some form of evaluation
appropriate to the type of research.
Submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors are invited to submit
original, previously unpublished, research papers written in English.
Submission Format
Please use the ECAI
format. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Length of papers is
restricted to maximum of 8 pages, including references and
figures. Please make your paper anonymous.
Contributions can be submitted through EasyChair.
Last modified
on 13th of June, 2016, by Joris Hulstijn (j.hulstijn@tudelft.nl). 
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