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Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic
Special issue on "Normative Multiagent Systems"
Editors-in-Chief: Dov Gabbay, Joerg Siekmann
Guest Editors: Guido Boella, Pablo Noriega, Gabriella Pigozzi, Harko
Verhagen
It follows three other special issues on the same topic:
"Special
issue of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory on
Normative Multiagent Systems"
"Special
issue of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on
Normative Multiagent Systems"
"Special issue of Logic Journal of the IGPL on Normative Multiagent
Systems"
Norms play a central role in many social phenomena such as
coordination, cooperation, and decision-making. Norms provide an
essential basis for modeling, engineering, and understanding systems of
artificial or human agents. Norms yield structure and predictability in
systems that are other loosely structured and support the autonomy of
the participants.
The study of norms in multiagent systems combines theories and
frameworks for normative systems with those of multiagent systems. The
study of norms in multiagent systems is a prime example of the use of
sociological theories in multiagent systems, and therefore of the
relation between agent theory and the social sciences, broadly
construed to include sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science,
among others.
Particular topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Multiagent or society level:
o
balancing dynamics and statics at the agent (micro) and agent society
(macro) level
o
coordination based on normative multiagent systems
o
emergence of conventions, norms, roles, and normative multiagent systems
o
combining conventions with regulative, permissive, constitutive and
other types of norms
o relation
between NorMAS and contracts, security, and (electronic) institutions
o
commitments, organizations, and norms
o
commitments, protocols and Agent Communication Languages
* Agent level:
o
alternatives to and extensions of the homo economicus and BDI logics
o
extending logical frameworks to encompass norms in agent decision making
o how to
implement theories of norms in artificial agents
o policies
and commitments
* Applications of NorMAS:
o
multiagent social simulation models containing norms
o mixing
artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
We welcome both theoretical work (formal models, representations,
specifications, logics, verification) and implementation-oriented work
(architectures, programming languages, design models, simulations,
prototype systems) on these specific topics.
All submissions will be peer reviewed with respect to the usual journal
criteria. Authors are invited to submit original, previously
unpublished, research papers written in English.
Please consult the following submission guidelines:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622851/authorinstructions#24000
There is no a-priori set page limit, but please avoid overlong papers.
The deadline for submissions is
September
15, 2009
Authors should submit their papers electronically using the website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas09sp
The Journal will publish the special issue as soon as camera ready
versions will be ready at the end of the review process.
If you intend to submit a paper for this special issue, please notify
us about your intention by email.
If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
editors of the special issue.
Further information on the Journal of Algorithms in Cognition,
Informatics and Logic is available here.
URL of the CFP: http://icr.uni.lu/normas09sp-cfp
Guido Boella (guido@di.unito.it)
Pablo Noriega (pablo@iiia.csic.es)
Gabriella Pigozzi (gabriella.pigozzi@uni.lu)
Harko Verhagen (verhagen@dsv.su.se)