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Final 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.
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:
* 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
* 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
* applications of NorMAS:
o multiagent social simulation models containing norms
o mixing artificial and human agents in hybrid social systems
Final schedule NorMAS2005
Tuesday, April 12
8.30 9.00 registration
9.00 9.10 welcome etc.
9.10 10.10 Plenary AISB talk: Nigel Gilbert: Computational Sociology
10.10 10:45 coffee-break
10:45 11.15 Introduction to Normative Multiagent Systems - Harko Verhagen
11.15 12.00 Towards Norm-Governed Self-Organising Networks - Lloyd Kamara, Jeremy Pitt, and Marek Sergot
12.00 12.45 Beyond BDI? Brandomian commitments for multi-agent communication - Rodger Kibble
12:45 14.00 lunch
14.00 15:00 My Agents Love to Conform: Emotions, Norms, and Social Control in Natural and Artificial Societies - Christian von Scheve, Daniel Moldt, Julia Fix, and Rolf von Lüde
15:00 16:00 A Normative Framework for Agent-Based Systems - Fabiola López y Lopéz, Michael Luck, and Mark d'Inverno
16:00 16.30 coffee-break
16.30 17:15 Normative KGP Agents: A Preliminary Report - Fariba Sadri, Kostas Stathis, and Francesca Toni
17:15 18:00 Discussion on Normative Agent Systems
18:00 AISB: Reception, finger buffet
Wednesday, April 13
9.00 10.00 Plenary AISB talk: Jacqueline Nadel: Looking at the many faces of human socio-cognitive development: can it help designing 'social' robots?
10.00 10.30 coffee-break
10.30 11.10 Increasing Software Infrastructure Dependability through a Law Enforcement Approach - Gustavo Carvalho, Rodrigo Paes, Ricardo Choren, Paulo Alencar, and Carlos Lucena
11.10 11.50 Self-Organized Criticality and Norm Avalanches - Matthew J. Hoffmann
11.50 12:30 Formalizing Coalition Structures via Obligations - Luigi Sauro
12:30 13:45 lunch
13:45 14:25 A Framework for the Design of Self-Regulation of Open Agent-based Electronic Marketplaces - Christian Hahn, Bettina Fley, and Michael Florian
14:25 15:05 Ontological Aspects of the Implementation of Norms in Agent-Based Electronic Institutions - Davide Grossi, Huib Aldewereld, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, and Frank Dignum
15:05 15.45 Towards a Mapping of Deontic Logic onto an Abductive Framework - Marco Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Paolo Torroni, and Giovanni Sartor
15.45 16:15 coffee-break
16:15 17:00 On the Potential of Norm-Governed Behavior in Different Categories of Artificial Societies - Paul Davidsson and Stefan Johansson
17:00 17:45 Concluding discussion
17:45 19:45 AISB: Robot demos, finger buffet
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.
All papers are available from our website.
A limited amount of students grants is available from AISB, see the AISB2005 website for more details.
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/
Still open for submissions:
2005 AAAI Fall Symposium: Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective: http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/roles05
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