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Subject: CfP - Socially Inspired Computing @ AISB 2005
From: Francois Bousquet (Chula) (Francois.B@chula.ac.th)
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 04:51:26 CEST
A Call for Papers for:
Socially Inspired Computing - Engineering with Social Metaphors
A 2-day workshop at the AISB convention on "Social Intelligence
and Interaction in Animals, Robots And Agents", 12-15 April 2005,
at University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield,
England. Co-organised by: David Hales and Bruce Edmonds.
Web page: http://cfpm.org/sic
Ideas from biology have been successfully applied to the design,
construction and adjustment of computer systems. This workshop
aims to focus on work which contributes to doing the same with
ideas and metaphors originating in social phenomena.
Social systems are complex self-organising and self-regulating
systems that emerge certain kinds of properties that would appear
to be very useful if they could be instantiated in computer
systems. For example, the emergence and maintenance of roles,
institutions, power-relations, exchange and trust systems are
very much current engineering issues in distributed (network
based) decentralised systems.
Recently, the emerging discipline of computational social science
has begun to formalise concepts about social mechanisms
algorithmically - i.e. using (often agent-based) computer
simulation. It would appear that there is a great potential for
cross fertilisation between researchers trying to solve difficult
engineering problems and those producing computational models of
complex social phenomena. We hope to foster this process by the
exchange of relevant ideas, techniques and problems.
Ideally ideas and techniques should be demonstrated in
implemented software systems or using computational simulation -
i.e. a concrete instantiation of the social idea that indicates
its potential for application to engineering problems in
computing. Additionally we solicit papers detailing specific open
engineering problems that would appear to be suited to a
sociological approach - detailing why conventional mechanisms are
hitherto inadequate - and papers that present novel social
simulations with properties that the authors believe would be of
use to engineers. Finally we encourage vision and position papers
covering the current engineering state-of-the-art, future
directions for such engineering as well as practical
considerations. Examples include: how applicable are traditional
engineering methodologies to constructing emergent systems?; what
"roadmaps" can be followed to move techniques from academic
playthings to deployable systems; can "killer apps" be identified
for the socially inspired approach. We do not want vision and
position papers covering the purely sociological side of such
systems.
Authors intending to submit should first consult the web-page for
submission instructions, and more exact guidance as to the
suitability of papers etc. Negative as well as positive results
are welcomed.
Conditional upon the quality of the papers, we intend to seek
publication as a special issue of a suitable journal (as has
happend with previous workshops we have organised).
This symposium will be back-to-back with the AISB symposium on
"Emerging Artificial Societies", so you can attend both at the
convention. Details about the whole convention and the 14 other
co-located symposia see: http://aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk
Submitted papers should be 6-10 pages long and will be thoroughly
refereed. See web page for more details.
Deadline for submissions (full papers): 15th Nov 2004
Notification of acceptance: 7th Dec 2004
Deadline for submission of final versions: 21st Dec 2004
David Hales
Dept. of Computer Science,
The University of Bologna, Italy
Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester Met. University, UK