Forwarded message from [falcone@ip.rm.cnr.it (Rino Falcone)] sent originally on Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:44:32 +0200: : I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. : Please distribute to interested persons. : : Thanks, : Rino Falcone : : ÿÿÿ : Autonomous Agents 2000 : Workshop : DECEPTION, FRAUD AND TRUST IN AGENT SOCIETIES : : http://www.ip.rm.cnr.it/news/wstrust.html : : 3 or 4 June, 2000 : Barcelona : : Trust underlies all interactions among autonomous agents, whether : human or artificial. However, most existing research on agents : assumes full trust among the agents. This is rarely justified in : practical applications. Indeed, human societies have evolved a number : of subtle approaches to reduce deception and fraud in human : communications, exchanges and relations, and hence to assure trust : between agents. The expansion of electronic commerce, however, : magnifies the problems of trust, because agents reach out far beyond : their familiar trade environments and may often interact with others : whom they have never met and who might have only acquired a temporary : identity. The notion of trust has obvious relationships with the : concepts of agency, rationality, and risk, among others. Simple : formulations of it can lead to all sorts of conundrums. : : The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different : fields (AI, MAS, Cognitive Science, Game Theory, Social and Organizational : Sciences, and so on) that can : contribute to a better understanding of trust and deception in agent : societies. In this perspective, the workshop scope ranges over all aspects : of trust including : theoretical results on trust as well as its application in agent : applications such as human-computer interaction and electronic commerce. : : Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to: : models of trust and of its functions : models of deception and of its functions : models of fraud : role of trust and trusted third parties (TTP) in electronic commerce : defensive strategies and mechanisms : ways to detect and prevent deception and fraud : secure transactions over the network : : Papers should not exceed 12 pages and should be sent to one of the program : cochairs, Munindar Singh singh@ncsu.edu or Yao Hua Tan : ytan@fac.fbk.eur.nl with a cc to Rino Falcone : falcone@ip.rm.cnr.it. 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. : : Revised papers from previous editions of this workshop have resulted : in a book published by Kluwer and a special issue of a journal. : Similar venues for publication will be explored for this workshop. : : IMPORTANT DATES: : Submission of papers to program chairs 17 March 2000 : Decision date 10 April 2000 : Workshop dates 3 or 4 June 2000 : : PROGRAM CHAIRS: : Rino Falcone - IP - National Research Council - Italy : Munindar Singh - Computer Science- North Carolina State University - USA : Yao Hua Tan - Erasmus University Rotterdam - The Netherlands : : PROGRAM COMMITTEE: : Cristiano Castelfranchi - IP-CNR - Italy : Robert Demolombe - CERT/ONERA - France : Andrew J I Jones - Dept. of Philosophy - University of Oslo - Norway : Jeff Rosenschein - University of Jerusalem - Israel : Onn Shehory - IBM Haifa Res. Labs - Israel : Chris Snijders - Dept. of Sociology, Utrecht University - The Netherlands : Toshio Yamagishi - Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University - Japan : Eric Yu - University of Toronto - Canada : Gerd Wagner - Inst.f.Informatik, Univ. Leipzig, Germany : Von-Wun Soo - Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University - Taiwan : : ÿÿÿ: Rino Falcone : IP - CNR National Research Council : Division of "Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modeling and Interaction" : Viale Marx, 15 00137 ROMA : : NEW EMAIL: falcone@ip.rm.cnr.it : tel: ++39 06 86090.211 fax: ++39 06 86090.214 : ÿÿÿ

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