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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

AT 2013
Second International Conference on Agreement Technologies
August 1 - 2, 2013 in Beijing, China
URL: http://www.ia.urjc.es/at2013/

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline:
Abstract due: April 22, 2013
Full paper : April 25, 2013

Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2013
Camera ready copy: June 7, 2013
AT-2013 Conference: August 1-2, 2013

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AIMS AND SCOPE
Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may choose whether to fulfil an agreement or not, and it should fulfil it when there is an obligation to do so derived from the standing agreements. Autonomy, interaction, mobility and openness are key concepts studied within the Agreement Technologies approach.

Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organisations, trust and reputation and several other technologies are part of the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems. The International Conference Series on Agreement Technologies is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant field. It provides an avenue to discuss and exchange new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems centred on the notion of agreement among computational agents.

Following the successful outcome of the first edition of the International Conference on Agreement Technologies (AT 2012) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, last year, we are now organising the second edition of the event in Beijing, China. AT 2013 will be co-located with IJCAI 2013 at the Beijing International Convention Centre (BICC). IJCAI will commence on August 3rd, right after the end of AT-2013.


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Argumentation and negotiation
Trust and reputation
Coordination and distributed decision making
Computational social choice
Semantic alignment
Inter-theory relations
Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreement
Agent commitments
Semantic service coordination
Normative systems
Individual reasoning about norm adoption
Collective deliberation about norm adoption
Autonomic Electronic Institutions
Group planning agreements
Deliberative agreement: social choice and collective judgment
Evolution of organisational structures
Social Intelligence
Logics for agreements
Real-time agreements
Agreement patterns
Agreement technologies architectures, environments and methodologies
Applications of agreement technologies (e.g. web service composition, contract automation, supply chain automation, sensor networks, etc.)

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
We encourage submission of original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas. Papers should represent original and previously unpublished work that is currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references and figures.
All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the AT-2013 proceedings, which will be published as a Springer LNCS/LNAI volume. We also plan a special issue of an ISI ranked Journal for extended versions of high-quality papers describing original, novel research. Further details on the ISI journal special issue will be announced soon.
Submissions must be done via Easychair through this link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=at2013

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Leila Amgoud, Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research, France
Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Estefania Argente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Olivier Boissier, ISCOD, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Pompeu Casanovas, Institute of Law and Technology, UAB, Spain
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Marco Colombetti, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Maria Ganzha, University of Gdansk, Poland
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Gordan Jezic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vicente Julian, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jerome Keppens, King's College London, UK
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mario Kusek, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Marcin Paprzycki, IBSPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jordi Sabater, IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK
Denis Trcek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laszlo Varga, SZTAKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Matteo Vasirani, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Antoine Zimmermann, ISCOD, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France