Forwarded message from [lindeman@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Gabriela Lindemann)] sent originally on Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:14:27 +0100: : !Please, accept our apologies for multiple posting! : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS : : Workshop on : : MODELLING ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES and HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS : - MASHO - : : (http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/masho-ws) : : To be held at the : 14th European Conference on : Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000) : August 20th-25th, 2000 : Berlin, Germany : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Important Dates : : Deadline for arrival of submissions: 7 April 2000 : Notification of acceptance: 10 May 2000 : Revised camera-ready due: 12 June 2000 : Workshop in Berlin: 22 August 2000 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : The workshop "Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations" : is a one-day event that will be held at the occasion of ECAI-2000 : in Berlin, Germany. This workshop aims to present first results in the : very new field of Socionics. It is concerned with the structure and : behaviour of hybrid and artificial agent societies. Agent oriented : approaches are to be used in the modelling of the distributed hybrid : and artificial organizations as well as in the description self-organi- : zation and emergence of social characteristics. The workshop shall : bring together both researchers in DAI, related fields and Sociology. : : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Introduction : : In developing agents and multi-agent systems computer scientists have : used sociological terms like negotiation, interaction, contracts, : agreement, organization, cohesion, social order, and collaboration. : Meanwhile an interdisciplinary area called "Socionics" is in the : beginning to establish itself. In the last years researchers in : Artificial Intelligence, Sociology, Evolution Theory and Self-Organizing : Principles have shown interest in answers to questions like: : : * What have human and artificial societies in common? : * How do we deal with the offer of interaction with artificial agents : and artificial multi-agent communities? : * What can the DAI community do to get acceptance from "conventional" : users? : * What are the main difficulties in designing hybrid societies? : * What are the effects of growing involvement of artificial societies : in social life? : * Where are the "walls" to handle artificial worlds? : * How can we overcome the existing difficulties in using agent systems? : : The workshop will consider organizational models by exploiting agent : technology for the simulation and evaluation of organizational : behaviour. Specific aspects of organizational structures, : for example, the different (sub)groups that can be distinguished within : an organization, the different roles in a group, and interaction between : roles, shall be investigated with respect to the involvement of : artificial partners. An organizational structure provides coordination : of the different individual actor and agent behaviours. An interesting : relation is the relation between an organization structure : specification, the dynamics of individual human and agents behaviour : (behavioural specification), and the emerging dynamics for the community : as a whole. : The workshop aims to exchange ideas on different aspects of agent- : oriented approaches in connection to organizational knowledge, : structures and behaviour. : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Topics : : * modelling of artificial and hybrid organizations : * agent behaviour in organizational structures : * commitment, responsibility and obligations in artificial and hybrid : societies : * semantics of the dynamics of organizational models : * requirements of agents in artificial and hybrid societies : * organizational roles : * adaptive organization models : * simulation of artificial and hybrid societies : * self organizing systems and emergent organization : * applications : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Submission Procedure : : Those wishing to participate in the workshop should submit an original : research paper of up to 10 pages maximum to the address below. : Electronic submission in PostScript (Unix-compatible)is recommended, : but three single-sided hard copies are also accepted. : The proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Based on selected : workshop papers, we plan to edit a special issue of an AI journal. : Attendance will be limited to 40 participants. Attendees at the workshop : must also register for the main ECAI-2000 conference. : : : Submit to: masho@ecai2000.de (electronic submissions preferred!) : : : or send three paper copies of the paper to: : : Gabriela Lindemann : : Humboldt University Berlin : Department of Computer Science : Rudower Chaussee 25 : D-10099 Berlin, Germany : : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Organization : : Catholijn M. Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Ioan A.Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Co-chair) : Gabriela Lindemann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (Co-chair) : Thomas Uthmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Information on ECAI-2000: : : http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Programme Committee : : Mihai Barbuceanu, University of Toronto, Canada : Cristiano Castelfranchi, National Research Council, Italy : Rosaria Conte, National Research Council, Italy : Keith S Decker, University of Delaware, USA : Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France : Peter Dittrich, University of Dortmund, Germany : Jacques Ferber, Universite Montpellier II, France : Klaus Fischer, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany : Christian Freksa, University of Hamburg, Germany : Serge Galam, Universite Paris 6, France : Catholijn M Jonker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Victor R Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA : Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania : Gabriela Lindemann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany : Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany : Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom : Jean-Pierre Muller, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland : Sascha Ossowski, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain : Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany : Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel : Dietrich Stauffer, University of Cologne, Germany : Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Thomas Uthmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany : : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- : Contact : : Gabriela Lindemann : : Humboldt University Berlin : Department of Computer Science : Rudower Chaussee 25 : D-10099 Berlin, Germany : Tel: + 49 +30 2093 3170 : Fax: + 49 +30 2093 3168 : e-mail: lindeman@informatik.hu-berlin.de :

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