Workshop Programme

International Workshop on
Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems:
Theories and Applications (RASTA'02)

as part of AAMAS 2002

Workshop date: July 16, 2002
Time: 8:30 -- 17:30
Location: Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna, Via Risorgimento 2

Room 2.4



Technical Equipment:
Each room will have an overhead projector and a beamer/data projector;
participants can supply their own laptops.

Programme

Tuesday, July 16th:

8:30 - 8:45
Welcome

8:45 - 9:30
Electronic Institutions (Invited talk)
Carles Sierra abstract

9:30 - 10:30
Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms.
Going Beyond the "Complexity Effect" through Agent-Based Computational Models

Riccardo Boero, Marco Castellani, and Flaminio Squazzoni abstract
An Organisational-oriented Model for Agent Societies
Virginia Dignum, John-Jules-Meyer, Hans Wiegand, and Frank Dignum abstract
An Approach to Evaluating Human Characteristics in Agents
Emma Norling and Liz Sonenberg abstract
Metanarratives and Believable Behavior: Developing Social Attitude Engines of Socially Intelligent Agents
Mirko Petric, Inga Tomic-Koludrovic, and Ivica Mitrovic abstract

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30
Integration of Generic Motivations in Social Hybrid Agent
Fenintsoa Andriamasinoro and Remy Courdier abstract

11:30 - 12:30
Abstract Norms and Electronic Institutions
Frank Dignum abstract
On how to conduct experimental research with self-motivated agents
Luis Antunes and Helder Coelho abstract
The Description of Formal Roles in Hospital Environments
Renate Gerstl, Alexander Osherenko, and Gabriela Lindemann abstract
Discussion

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch

13:30 - 13:50
Activist and Radical Agents in a Multi-Agent Model of Class Norms
Robert L. Axtell and Shubha Chakravarty abstract

13:50 - 14:10
Actions, Institutions, Powers. Preliminary Notes
Guido Governatori, Jonathan Gelati, Antonino Rotolo, and Giovanni Sartor abstract

14:10 - 15:30
Modelling product awareness rates and market shares
Filippo Neri abstract
What is a Normative Goal?
Mehdi Dastani and Leon van der Torre abstract
Towards a Model of the Dynamics of Normative Multi-Agent Systems
Fabiola Lòpez y Lòpez and Micheal Luck abstract
Incomplete Information Exchange in a Simulation Environment: a Communication Layer Approach
Paulo Trigo Candido da Silva, Porfirio Pena Filipe, and Helder Manuel Ferreira Coelho abstract
Discussion

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30
Search in Referral Networks
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh abstract

16:30 - 17:30
Mutual Belief Inferences in a Multi-Agent Setting
Alberto Artosi abstract
Social Organization in a Software Agent Communtiy with Non-Zero-Sum Game Interaction Model
Matti A. Vanninen and John R. Rose abstract
The Evolution of Specialization in Groups
David Hales abstract
Discussion


Last modified: 10.06.2002 Daniel Moldt
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