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CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposals Submission Deadline: 8/15/2007
Full Chapters Due: 12/16/2007
https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213
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Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions
A book edited by Goran Trajkovski, South University, Savannah, GA, USA
Samuel G. Collins, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA
OBJECTIVE
Multiagent systems, we submit, cross-disciplinary boundaries by focusing
on society and culture as emerging from the interactions of autonomous
agents. Poised at the intersection of AI, cybernetics, sociology,
semiotics and anthropology, this strand of multiagent systems research
enables a powerful perspective illuminating not only how we live and
learn now, but also, through focusing on emergence, how we anticipate a
human future premised more and more on the interactions between human
and non-human agents.
This volume aims to address the main issues of concern within multiagent
systems and interaction between the agents, emphasizing the emergent
societal phenomena that come out of these interactions. Papers in the
volume generally fall into the categories of Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI), and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), by focusing more generally on
interaction between agents in a homogenous or heterogeneous society of
agents (SOA). More than simply reflecting current trends in multiagent
systems research, it is our belief that these two modalities form the
basis of life in information society where the success of the human
agent lies in the capacity to interact with non-human agents.
In a given environment, the agents interact between themselves, imitate
each other, communicate etc, thus exchanging information on their
experiences from their sojourn in the world. Based on the quality and
trust of these communications, or the modalities of interaction, we
observe a variety of societal phenomena emerge in the world. On a more
conceptual level we observe phenomena like concept formation and
emergence of language, whereas on a more applied side, we observe
societal groupings such as parties, special interest groups, or observe
economic patterns in trade. Even "culture" itself can be seen emerge out
of the interactions of agents.
Whereas multiagent systems have been extremely helpful in solving
engineering problems, much of what we find exciting lies in their
applications to contemporary human life. In particular, the focus of
this book will be on self-constituting systems and networks composed of
human and non-human agents characteristic of emergent cyber cultures,
including e-commerce, e-learning as well as other human/non-human agent
systems in medicine, law, science and online interactions of all kinds.
It represents an opportunity not only to share insights and experiments
in multiagent systems composed of robot- and software agents, but to
theorize hybridity formed at the junction of the human- and non-human.
In other words, we hope the books acts as an agent in itself, in
particular, what Michel Serres terms a "quasi-object," i.e., an object
that not only takes on agential properties, but also catalyzes agencies
in others. Just as we now emulate the non-human agents we originally
developed to simulate us, so the analysis of extant multiagent systems
may stimulate the development of new multiagencies, heretofore
undiscovered conurbations of human and non-human, information and social
sciences.
FOCUS
# Interaction and emergence of multiagent socialities
# Emergence of shared representations
# How do the environment and the society influence the individual agent
and vice versa?
# What are the knowledges, translations or other hierarchies that emerge
in such settings?
# What tools do we use in these explorations?
# How are these phenomena reflected in off and on-line societies?
AUDIENCE
General AI community, researchers in the domain of theories of chaos and
nonlinear systems, cognitive scientists, linguists, psychologists,
anthropologists, social scientists in general, computer scientists in
general.
SUBMISSIONS
Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-3 page manuscript on their
proposed chapter via e-mail on or before August 12, 2007. Upon
acceptance of your proposal, you will have until December 16, 2007 to
prepare your chapter. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and
definitions will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal.
You will be notified about the status of your proposed chapter by
September 9, 2007. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global,
http://www.igi-pub.com/ <http://www.igi-pub.com/> , publisher of IGI
Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science
Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints in 2008.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
document) or by mail to:
Dr. Goran Trajkovski, Chair, IT Department
South University
709 Mall Blvd
Savannah, GA 31406, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gorantrajkovski.info <http://www.gorantrajkovski.info>
or
Dr Samuel Collins, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and
Criminal Justice
Towson University
8000 York Rd, Towson, MD 21252
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cordially yours,
Dr. Goran Trajkovski
http://www.gorantrajkovski.info <http://www.gorantrajkovski.info>
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Coming Up:
AAAI Fall Symposium 2007
Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of
Intelligence
http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/academic/FSS07/
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