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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Agreement Technologies
(Information Systems Frontiers Journal, Springer)

Guest Editors:
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Email: sascha.ossowski@urjc.es
George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece - Email: georgev@unipi.gr
Carlos Iván Chesñevar, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina - Email: cic@cs.uns.edu.ar
Eva Onaindía, Technical University of Valencia, Spain - Email: onaindia@dsic.upv.es

Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may choose whether to fulfil an agreement or not, and it should fulfil 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.
Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organisations, trust and reputation and several other technologies are part of the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems.
The evolution and impact of Agreement Technologies motivated the organization of the International Conference Series on Agreement Technologies, which resulted so far in two international conferences (AT2012, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in Octobre 2012, and AT2013, held in Beijing, China, in August 2013). These conferences provided an interdisciplinary forum that brought together researchers and practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant field.
The special issue aims to provide an important reference in the growing body of literature on agreement technologies. Contributions are expected to extend the state-of-the-art with new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems centred on the notion of agreement among computational agents.
Authors are invited to submit original research papers, addressing areas such as those listed below:
Argumentation and negotiation
Trust and reputation
Coordination and distributed decision making
Computational social choice
Semantic alignment
Inter-theory relations
Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreement
Agent commitments
Semantic service coordination
Normative systems
Individual reasoning about norm adoption
Collective deliberation about norm adoption
Autonomic Electronic Institutions
Group planning agreements
Deliberative agreement: social choice and collective judgment
Evolution of organisational structures
Social Intelligence
Logics for agreements
Real-time agreements
Agreement patterns
Agreement technologies architectures, environments and methodologies
Applications of agreement technologies (e.g. web service composition, contract automation, supply chain automation, sensor networks, etc.)

The above areas are just indicative and this special issue would welcome papers discussing other topics relevant to agreement technologies. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the guest editors for any enquires they may have in relation to the special issue. For more information about the journal and for the submission guidelines please visit:
http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+sys...
Papers should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/

TENTATIVE PUBLICATION SCHEDULE FOR THIS SPECIAL ISSUE
1. Last date for submitting the manuscript: 30th Oct 2013
2. End of the first review cycle: 15 Dec 2013 (45 days later wrt step 1)
3. Tentative date for completing the revised papers: 1 Feb 2014 (45 days later wrt step 2)
4. Tentative date for completing the second review cycle: 15 March 2014 (45 days later wrt step 3)
5. Submission of the final manuscripts for print: 15 Apr 2014 (30 days later wrt step 4)