Normative Multiagent Systems (NorMAS 2010)

Workshop description
Normative systems are “systems in the behavior of which norms play a role and which need normative concepts in order to be described or specified.” A normative multi-agent system combines models for normative systems (dealing for example with obligations, permissions and prohibitions) with models for multi-agent systems. Normative multi-agent 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 multi-agent systems, and therefore of the relation between agent theory - both multi-agent systems and autonomous agents - and the social sciences - sociology, philosophy, economics, legal science, etc.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Norm representation:
- Formal languages for the representation of norms
- Legal reasoning
- Norm-aware cognitive architectures

* Norm dynamics:
- Formal models of the evolution of normative systems
- Norm creation and propagation
- Norm emergence

* Socio-economical foundations:
- Models of norm-related sociological notions (e.g., blame)
- Norms and social welfare
- Norm enforcement
- Institutions

* NorMAS applications:

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2010.
Camera ready version: TBA
Symposium: 29th March - 30th March 2010

After the symposium a selection of papers will be published in a special issue of a relevant journal.

Paper Submission Guidelines

- The paper should be written in English.
- The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format
(format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html).
- The paper should be in PDF format.
- The paper should present unpublished work.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=normas2010).

Program Committee
Thomas Agotnes, Bergen University College, Norway Giulia Andrighetto, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Italy Guido Boella, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Italy Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden (chair) Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia Davide Grossi, ILLC University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (chair) Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Sanjay Modgil , King’s College, UK Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK Pablo Noriega, IIIA - CSIC - Barcelona, Spain Gabriella Pigozzi, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair)

Previous NorMAS Meetings
NorMAS05@AISB2005, selection of papers published in CMOT (vol 12, no 2-3, 2006) NorMAS07@Dagstuhl, selection of papers published in JAAMAS (vol 17, no 1, 2008) NorMAS08@Deon08, selection of papers to be published in Logic Journal of the IGPL NorMAS09@Dagstuhl, selection of papers to be published in Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic

Contact
For further inquiries please contact Harko Verhagen via verhagen@dsv.su.se.
The workshop website is located at:
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grossi/NorMAS10Site/home.html