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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%2324000
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.
URL of the CFP: http://icr.uni.lu/normas09sp-cfp
Guido Boella ([email protected])
Pablo Noriega ([email protected])
Gabriella Pigozzi ([email protected])
Harko Verhagen ([email protected])
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