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CALL FOR PAPERS
Socio-Cognitive Systems: Computational and Formal models
A Workshop @ FAIM2018 (Federated AI Meeting which
includes AAMAS, ICML, ICCBR and SoCS)
Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm July 9-19. 2018
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Important dates:
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Deadline for submissions: 1
May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 25
May 2018
Camera-ready copy of papers: 15
June 2018
Workshop: 14
or 15 July 2018
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Much of AI
only makes sense within the social systems they are embedded. In the real world
these social systems in their turn are created and maintained by the people and
thus their cognitive abilities.
In this
workshop, we want to explore the interactions between cognitive and social
aspects of so-called socio-cognitive systems. The workshop connects elements of
IJCAI/ECAI, AAMAS and ICML. Of course, modelling these systems in terms of
Multi-Agent Systems seems intuitive, but would require special attention to the
social concepts in these MAS. The cognitive abilities of the agents should
adapt themselves to the social context and development, which connects this
area to machine learning in a social context.
The topics of the workshop include but are not limited
to:
- Social norms, conventions and practices
- Institutions
- Social networks and their dynamics
- Group recognition and membership
- Development of (social)
- IdentityStatus and power relations
- Plan coordination
- Social agency
- Social adaptation
- Social self-regulation
- The construction of social reality
- Complex negotiations
- Agreed naming and reference
- Cultural coherence
- Foundations of Communication
- The construction and coordination of complex value-chains
- Enculturation
- Co-development of social context
SCS welcomes
high-quality research that goes beyond looking at social aspects of individual
cognition or the properties of individuals in social systems and seeks to truly
integrate these two layers. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary research, work that seeks to tackle areas that
have been ignored before and novel approaches to relating the cognitive and the
social. We are agnostic about the kind of approach or tools used, but favour
approaches with an identifiable empirical or computational/formal content -
both systems constructed for a particular goal in mind and models of observed
or theoretical systems. However, the aim is to give new insights - into social
science, cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence - merely formalising or
implementing a system is not enough. We welcome contributions from a wide range
of standpoints as long as this does not involve an effective reduction to only
the individual or social levels.
Papers will undergo the normal
review process and are selected on the basis of quality. However, when choices
have to be made we will try to spread the accepted papers over the main themes
of the workshop. Interesting ideas are more important in this respect than
detailed results on fringe topics.
A selection of the best papers of the workshop will be
considered for a special issue of the new Springer journal on Socio-Cognitive
Systems.
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Formatting guidelines:
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We encourage participants to
submit a paper (15 pages max), describing their work on one or more of the
topics mentioned above. All non-presenting participants will need to submit a
one-page position statement which presents their view on socio-cognitive
systems relative to (one of) the workshop topics.
All submissions must include the
author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax
number and email address. Please use the LNCS format for formatting your paper.
All accepted submissions and
position statements will be published in the workshop proceedings.
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Submission procedure:
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Submissions should be submitted through the EasyChair system:
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scs18) in PDF format.
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 1 May 2018.
Papers received after this date will not be reviewed.
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Workshop Organizers
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1 Frank
Dignum, Utrecht University,The
Netherlands
2 Bruce
Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University ,UK
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Program Committee (to be confirmed):
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1.
Melania
Borit
2.
Amit
Chopra
3.
Edmund
Chattoe-Brown
4.
Stephen Cranefield
5.
Kristen
Dautenhahn
6.
Gert-Jan
Hofstede
7.
Wander Jager
8.
Catholijn Jonker
9.
Yoshi
Kashima
10.
Victor Lesser
11.
Emiliano Lorini
12.
Stacy
Marsella
13.
John-Jules
Meyer
14.
Rui
Prada
15.
Javier
Vazquez Salceda
16.
Munindar
Singh
17.
Pawel
Sobkowicz
18.
Wamberto
Vasconcelos
19.
Harko
Verhagen
20.
Nanda
Weijermans
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