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Workshop on TRUST IN AGENT SOCIETIES 2011
(to be held at AAMAS2011)
May 2, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan
NEWS
March, 3rd 2011 : List of accepted papers
here
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP
Trust and Trustworthiness (along with related concepts such as privacy,
reputation, security, control) have become major research topics in computer
science. The multiagent community potentially has a lot to offer, but
several conceptual and technical problems must be addressed before it can
make practical contributions. Although there is increasing interest in this
area within the AAMAS community, this area will need continued support as an
affiliated workshop in which are explored new directions and
inter-disciplinary interactions so that the AAMAS community maintains a
venue for research into trust, reputation, and related topics.
Trust is important in applications such as human-computer interaction to
model the relationship between users and their personal assistants.
Trust is more than secure communication, e.g., via public key cryptography
techniques. For example, the reliability of information about the status of
your trade partner has little to do with secure communication.
With the growing impact of electronic societies, trust, privacy, and
identity become more and more important. Different kinds of trust are
needed: trust in the environment and in the infrastructure (the
socio-technical system) including trust in your personal agent and in other
mediating agents; trust in the potential partners; trust in the warrantors
and authorities (if any). Another growing trend is the use of reputation
mechanisms, and in particular the interesting link between trust and
reputation. Many computational and theoretical models and approaches to
reputation have been developed in the last few years. In all these cases,
electronic personas many be created in many different forums (ecommerce,
social networks, blogs, etc). Also the identity and associated
trustworthiness must be ascertained for reliable interactions and
transactions.
Trust appears to be foundational for the notion of "agency" and for its
defining relation of acting "on behalf of". It is also critical for modeling
and supporting groups and teams, organizations, co-ordination, negotiation,
with the related trade-off between individual utility and collective
interest; or in modeling distributed knowledge and its circulation. In
several cases the electronic medium seems to weaken the usual bonds in
social control: and the disposition to cheat grows stronger. In experiments
of cooperation supported by computers it has been found that people are more
leaning to defeat than in face-to-face interaction, and a preliminary direct
acquaintance reduces this effect. So, computer technology can even break
trust relationships already held in human organizations and relations, and
favor additional problems of deception and trust.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers (even from
different disciplines) who can contribute to a better understanding of trust
and reputation in agent societies. Most agent models assume trustworthy
communication to exist between agents. However, this ideal situation is
seldom met in reality. In the human societies, many techniques (e.g.
contracts, signatures, long-term personal relationships, reputation) have
been evolved over time to detect and prevent deception and fraud in
communication, exchanges and relations, and hence to assure trust between
agents. Artificial societies will need analogous techniques.
We encourage an interdisciplinary focus of the workshop - although focused
on virtual environments and artificial agents - as well as presentations of
a wide range of models of deception, fraud, reputation and trust building.
In the workshop of this edition we will give a special attention about the
theme of "TRUST IN SOCIAL COMPUTING". In fact the relationships between
social behavior and computational systems are becoming increasingly
interwined with interesting bilateral influences. The role of Trust and
Reputation has to be deeply analyzed and understood in this new
interactional paradigm. We will also call papers coping this theme and we
will dedicate a special section of the workshop to this topic.
Just to mention some examples: AI models, BDI models, cognitive models, game
theory, and organizational science theories. Suggested topics include, but
are not restricted to, the following (here "mechanisms" include
considerations of architecture, design, and protocols):
- Models of trust and of its functions
- Models of deception and fraud; approaches for detection and prevention
- Models and mechanisms of reputation
- Role of control and guaranties mechanisms
- Models and mechanisms for privacy and access control
- Models and mechanisms for establishing identities in virtual worlds
- Theoretical aspects, e.g., autonomy, delegation, ownership
- Integration of conventional and agent-based mechanisms
- Policies, interoperability, protocols, ontologies, and standards
- Scalability and distribution across multiple domains or within the global domain
- Test-beds and frameworks for computational trust and reputation models
- Trust in Organizations and Institutions
- Application studies (e.g., e-commerce, e-health, e-government)
- SPECIAL THEME: Trust in social computing
KEY DATES
- FEBRUARY, 11, 2011 (11:59 PM GMT+1) - Submission of contributions to workshop
- FEBRUARY 28, 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
- MARCH 7, 2011 (11:59 PM GMT+1) - FINAL VERSION
- MAY 2, 2011 - AAMAS-2011 WORKSHOP
SUBMISSION: CRITERIA, FORMATS, and PROCEDURE
The workshop welcomes submissions of high-quality works addressing issues
that are clearly relevant to trust, deception, fraud, and reputation, in
agent-based systems, from a theoretical or an applied perspective. Papers
will be peer-reviewed by at least two referees from a group of reviewers
selected by the workshop organizers with the help of the program committee.
Submitted contributions should be original and not submitted elsewhere. As
in the past years, we expect to publish a post-proceedings with Springer.
Authors can submit papers (recommended length 15 pages) in PDF format through the Easychair system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trust2011. Camera-ready papers must follow the LNCS formatting instructions. Please download the appropriate instructions and templates from Springer (here).
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
- Rino Falcone - ISTC-CNR - Italy, rino.falcone(at)istc.cnr.it (contact person);
- Suzanne Barber - The University of Texas - USA;
- Jordi Sabater-Mir - IIIA-CSIC - Spain;
- Munindar Singh - North Carolina State University - USA
WORKSHOP ORGANIZER TO CONTACT:
- Rino Falcone - rino.falcone@istc.cnr.it
- tel. +39 06 44595253 - fax +39 06 44595243
- ISTC-CNR Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology,
- Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44
- 00185 Roma - ITALY.
WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
As in recent years, extended and revised versions of selected papers are expected to be included in a post-proceedings volume, edited by workshop organiers and published by Springer.
A PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP AGENDA
Full-day workshop; two sessions of contributed papers organized according to
concepts, mechanisms, and applications; possible invited speech by a very
reputed scholar on Trust (socio-philosophical-economical approach); a final
panel for discussing the new challenges in the field.
Each presentation will be given enough time for discussion. Each session
will be introduced by a brief relation (by one of the organizers) presenting
the state of the art with respect the topic (concepts, mechanisms, and
applications) and concluded from a general discussion on the critical points
and possible advances (even on the basis of the contributions).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE :
- Suzanne BARBER - Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, USA
- Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
- Robert DEMOLOMBE - Computer Science, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, IRIT, France
- Torsten EYMANN - Department of Information Systems, University of Bayreuth
- Rino FALCONE - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research Council Italy
- Andrew JONES - Department of Computer Science, King's College London, U.K.
- Catholijn JONKER - Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, TheNetherlands
- Yung-Ming LI - Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Churn-Jung LIAU Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Emiliano LORINI Computer Science, IRIT, France
- Stephen MARSH Computer Science, National Research Council, Canada
- Yuko MURAYAMA - Computer Science, Iwate Prefectural University, JAPAN
- Mario PAOLUCCI - Computer Science, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
- Jordi SABATER-MIR - Computer Science, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
- Sandip SEN - Computer Science, University of Tulsa USA
- Munindar SINGH - Computer Science - North Carolina State University, USA
- Chris SNIJDERS - Sociology, Utrecht University,The Netherlands
- Eugen STAAB - Computer Science, Imc AG, Germany
Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies