Agreement Technologies

CHESÑEVAR, CARLOS IVÁN; ONAINDIA, EVA; GEORGE VOUROS; OSSOWSKI, SASCHA

Springer

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2013 p. 241

978-3-642-39859-9

This volume contains the papers presented at AT-2013, the 2nd International Conference on Agreement Technologies, held on August 1-2, 2013, at the Beijing International Convention Centre (BICC), Beijing, China. The conference is co-located with IJCAI-2013, so as to raise awareness among the Articial Intelligence community of this emergent and vibrant interdisciplinary research eld. Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate, coordinate and collaborate with one another, at various levels of their functionality, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may choose whether to full an agreement or not, and it should full 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. The 2nd International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT-2013, following the tradition of its predecessor AT-2012 held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant eld. It provides an avenue to discuss and exchange new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verication of next generation open distributed systems centered on the notion of agreement among computational agents. The AT-2013 conference focuses on the following major topics: Semantic Technologies (including ontology alignment, policies, and coordination), Normative Multiagent Systems, Virtual Organisations and Electronic Institutions, Argumentation and Negotiation, Trust and Reputation, Applications of Agreement Technologies, Agreement Technologies Architectures, Environments and Methodologies, as well as Interdisciplinary Foundations of Agreement Technologies. The committee decided to accept 15 full papers reporting on original and previously unpublished work that is currently not under review in any conference or journal. All submissions were reviewed by at least two program committee members or reviewers. The program also includes two invited talks, by Professor Munindar Singh, NC State University, USA, and Professor Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK. The conference is supported by the Spanish Agreement Technologies Consolider project (CSD2007-0022) and by the CETINIA centre of University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. We wish to extend our warm thanks to the AT- 2013 Steering Committee, the Program Committee members, the reviewers and all authors of submitted papers for making this conference so rewarding.