EXTENDED DEADLINE: Jan 31st
CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM
SNAMAS@AISB 2011 Convention
http://snamas2011.res-ear.ch/
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/
4-7 April 2011, University of York, UK
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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
- Matthias Mailliard (Cemagref, France)
- Clara Smith (UNLP and UCALP, Argentina)
- Frédéric Amblard (IRIT, France)
- Samuel Thiriot (INRIA, France)
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The aim of the SNAMAS Symposium is to exchange ideas, tools,
methodologies, on various works in MAS that integrate the social network
component.
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TOPICS
The 2011 release of SNAMAS will be focused on "social relations and
their underlying processes in social organizations". Special
attention will be paid to empirical studies. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to) works exhibiting:
- empirical and/or theoretical research on a specific social
relation (e.g. relation of power, solidarity, legitimity, trust...);
- the role of specific social relations in structuring organizations;
- the role of agents´ attributes in structuring social relations
(values, emotions, cognitive abilities, ...);
- the role of social relation structures on agent behaviour;
- agent mechanisms and algorithms dealing with representations for
social relations;
- social relations regulations;
- comparative and ontological studies for SNA and MAS;
- mathematical representations for describing and analysing structures for
social relations, and their dynamics.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): January 31, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011.
Camera ready version deadline: TBA
Symposium: 4th - 7th April, 2011.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should consult the instructions on the website for submitting
their papers electronically.
Guidelines for paper submission are as the following:
- 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.
- Please submit via the online paper submission system.
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisb11 (Track : Social
Networks and Multi-agent systems))
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luis Antunes (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Guido Boella (University of Turin)
Cristiano Castelfranchi, (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Univ. Leicester, UK)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy)
Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Terrill Frantz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Camille Roth (CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France)
Giovanni Sartor (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
Serena Villata (University of Turin)
Justin Zhan (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
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POST PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers, under a second review process, will be considered for
a special issue of the Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory Journal (CMOT) Springer.
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CONTACTS
For further inquiries please contact: snamas2011@res-ear.ch
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Dra. Clara Smith
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Calle 50 esquina 120
(1900) La Plata, Argentina.
