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Preface
This volume contains the papers presented at AT 2012: Agreement Technologies
2012, held on October 15-16, 2012, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Agreement Technolo-
gies 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 fulfill an agreement
or not, and it should fulfill 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 AT approach. Semantic alignment, negotia-
tion, argumentation, virtual organisations, learning, real time, and several other
technologies are part of the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems.
The first International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2012, is an
interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and practitioners work-
ing on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant field. It provides
an avenue to discuss and exchange new ideas and techniques for the design,
implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems
centered on the notion of agreement among computational agents. The AT 2012
conference focuses on the following topics: Argumentation, 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 Co-
ordination, Normative Systems, Individual reasoning about norm adoption, Col-
lective deliberation about norm adoption, Autonomic Electronic Institutions,
Group planning agreements, Deliberative Agreement: social choice and collec-
tive judgment, Evolution of organisational structures, Social intelligence, Logics
for Agreements, Realtime agreements, Agreement patterns, Agreement technolo-
gies architectures, environments and methodologies, Applications of agreement
technologies (e.g. web service composition, contract automation, supply chain
automation, sensor networks, etc.)
There were 71 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least 2 pro-
gram committee members or reviewers. The committee decided to accept 27 full
papers reporting on original and previously unpublished work that is currently
not under review in any conference or journal and 25 position papers that rep-
resent either a summary of original work that has already been published in a
conference or journal, or a summary of original results obtained as a product of
STSMs funded by the Agreement Technologies Cost Action, or ongoing research
that can lead to important contributions to or of Agreement Technologies. The
program also includes one invited talk and a panel, sponsored by The European
Network for Social Intelligence (SINTELNET) .
The conference is supported by COST Action IC0801 on Agreement Tech-
nologies, the European Science Foundation (ESF), The European Network for
Social Intelligence (SINTELNET), CETINIA, the Ministry of Science, Education
and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computing of the University of Zagreb and the Spanish Project on Agreement
Technologies. We wish to extend our warm thanks to the AT 2012 Organizing
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Committee, the Program Committee members, the reviewers and all authors of
submitted papers for making this conference so rewarding.
October 15-16, 2012 Sascha Ossowski (Conference
chair)
Francesca Toni (Programme
co-chair)
George Vouros (Programme
co-chair)
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Program Committee
Leila Amgoud IRIT - CNRS
Cristiano Castelfranchi Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Carlos Chesñevar UAB, Universidad Nacional del Sur
Marco Colombetti University of Lugano
Paul Davidsson Malmö University
Ioanna Dionysiou University of Nicosia
Juergen Dix Clausthal University of Technology
Maria Ganzha University of Gdańsk, Poland
Mirjana Ivanovic Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and
Informatics
Gordan Jezic University of Zagreb
Antonis Kakkas University of Cyprus
Matthias Klusch DFKI
Ryszard Kowalczyk Swinburne University of Technology
Mario Kusek University of Zagreb, FER
Lea Kutvonen University of Helsinki
Christian Lemaitre Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, UAM
Merik Meriste University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technol-
ogy
John-Jules Meyer Utrecht University
Pavlos Moraitis Paris Descartes University
Viorel Negru West University of Timisoara
Eugénio Oliveira Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto -
LIACC
Sascha Ossowski University Rey Juan Carlos
Marcin Paprzycki IBS PAN and WSM
Marco Schorlemmer Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA, CSIC
Michael Ignaz Schumacher University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
(HES-SO)
Carles Sierra IIIA
Kuldar Teveter Tallinn University of Technology
Francesca Toni Imperial College
Denis Trcek Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Uni-
versity of Ljubljana
László Zsolt Varga MTA SZTAKI
Harko Verhagen Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm
University/KTH
George Vouros University of Piraeus
Emil Weydert CSC, University of Luxembourg
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Additional Reviewers
B
Bikakis, Antonis
Bonzon, Elise
G
Gao,Yang
Gjermundrod, Harald
K
Koster, Andrew
Kusek, Mario
L
Lopes Cardoso, Henrique
M
Mihalas, Stelian
O
Osman, Nardine
P
Peppas, Pavlos
Podobnik, Vedran
U
Urbano, Maria Joana
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