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Trust
in Agent Societies
A Workshop organized within the
Fifth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Future University Hakodate Japan, 8-12 May 2006
Workshop Presentation
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers
who can contribute to a better understanding of trust and
reputation in agent societies. Most agent models assume secure
and reliable communication to exist between agents. However,
this ideal situation is seldom met in reality. In fact, many
techniques (e.g. contracts, signatures, long-term personnel
relationships, reputation) have been evolved over time to
detect and prevent deception and fraud in human communication,
exchanges and relations, and hence to assure trust between
agents. Artificial societies will need analogous techniques.
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 and privacy become more and
more important. Trust is important in applications such as
human-computer interaction to model the relationship between
users and their personal assistants. 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.
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 habit or disposition
to cheat grow 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.
Call for papers
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. 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;
• 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;
• Legal aspects;
• Application studies (e.g., e-commerce, e-health, e-government)
of the above.
Deadlines
• Workshop submissions deadline January 15, 2006
• Workshop paper acceptance notifications February 19,
2006
• Camera ready copies March 10, 2006
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Preparation and submission
of papers
The workshop welcomes submissions of original, high quality
works addressing issues that are clearly relevant to trust,
deception, fraud, and reputation, in agent-based systems,
either 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 before, we expect
to publish a post-proceedings with Springer.
Authors can submit an extended abstract (4-5 pages) or a
long paper (12 pages). Papers (extended abstracts or long
papers) must be sent to Rino Falcone. The preferred mode of
submission is as a URL to a PDF file; if that is impossible,
the submission can be sent as an email attachment. The preferred
layout is the two-column AAAI standard.
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Workshop organizers
• Rino Falcone - ISTC-CNR - Italy, rino.falcone@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
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Program Committee
• Suzanne Barber - Computer Science, The University of
Texas - USA
• Cristiano Castelfranchi - Cognitive Science, ISTC National
Research Council - Italy
• Rosaria Conte - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research
Council - Italy
• Kerstin Dautenhahn - Computer Science, The University
of Hertfordshire, U.K.
• Robert Demolombe - Computer Science, CERT/ONERA - France
• Rino Falcone - Cognitive Science, ISTC National Research
Council - Italy
• Catholijn Jonker - Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam - The Netherlands
• Audun Josang - Computer Science, Queensland University
of Technology, Australia
• Stephane Lo Presti - Computer Science, University of
Southampton, U.K.
• Andrea Omicini - Computer Science, Università
di Bologna, Italy
• Jeremy Pitt - Computer Science, Imperial College London
- UK
• Sarvapali D. Ramchurn - Computer Science, University
of Southampton, UK
• Jordi Sabater-Mir - Computer Science, IIIA-CSIC - Spain
• Carles Sierra - Computer Science, CSIC - Spanish Scientific
Research Council
• Munindar Singh - Computer Science- North Carolina State
University - USA
• Chris Snijders - Sociology, Utrecht University - The
Netherlands
• Yao-Hua Tan -Economics and Business Administration,
Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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