[tt] [Comp-neuro] Call for Chapters: Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions

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From: "Trajkovski, Goran" <gtrajkovski at towson.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:22:43 -0400
To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org
Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Chapters: Agent-Based Societies: Social and
	Cultural Interactions

   CALL FOR CHAPTERS
   Proposals Submission Deadline: 8/12/2007
   Full Chapters Due: 12/16/2007

   [1]https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213

   Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions
   A book edited by Goran Trajkovski, South University, Savannah, GA, USA
   Samuel G. Collins, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA

   OBJECTIVE
   Multiagent systems, we submit, cross-disciplinary boundaries by
   focusing on society and culture as emerging from the interactions of
   autonomous agents. Poised at the intersection of AI, cybernetics,
   sociology, semiotics and anthropology, this strand of multiagent
   systems research enables a powerful perspective illuminating not only
   how we live and learn now, but also, through focusing on emergence,
   how we anticipate a human future premised more an more on the
   interactions between human and non-human agents.

   This volume aims to address the main issues of concern within
   multiagent systems and interaction between the agents, emphasizing the
   emergent societal phenomena that come out of these interactions.
   Papers in the volume generally fall into the categories of
   Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI),
   by focusing more generally on interaction between agents in a
   homogenous or heterogeneous society of agents (SOA). More than simply
   reflecting current trends in multiagent systems research, it is our
   belief that these two modalities form the basis of life in information
   society where the success of the human agent lies in the capacity to
   interact with non-human agents.

   In a given environment, the agents interact between themselves,
   imitate each other, communicate etc, thus exchanging information on
   their experiences from their sojourn in the world. Based on the
   quality and trust of these communications, or the modalities of
   interaction, we observe a variety of societal phenomena emerge in the
   world. On a more conceptual level we observe phenomena like concept
   formation and emergence of language, whereas on a more applied side,
   we observe societal groupings such as parties, special interest
   groups, or observe economic patterns in trade. Even "culture" itself
   can be seen emerge out of the interactions of agents.

   Whereas multiagent systems have been extremely helpful in solving
   engineering problems, much of what we find exciting lies in their
   applications to contemporary human life. In particular, the focus of
   this book will be on self-constituting systems and networks composed
   of human and non-human agents characteristic of emergent cyber
   cultures, including e-commerce, e-learning as well as other
   human/non-human agent systems in medicine, law, science and online
   interactions of all kinds. It represents an opportunity not only to
   share insights and experiments in multiagent systems composed of
   robot- and software agents, but to theorize hybridity formed at the
   junction of the human- and non-human.

   In other words, we hope the books acts as an agent in itself, in
   particular, what Michel Serres terms a "quasi-object," i.e., an object
   that not only takes on agential properties, but also catalyzes
   agencies in others. Just as we now emulate the non-human agents we
   originally developed to simulate us, so the analysis of extant
   multiagent systems may stimulate the development of new multiagencies,
   heretofore undiscovered conurbations of human and non-human,
   information and social sciences.

   FOCUS
   # Interaction and emergence of multiagent socialities
   # Emergence of shared representations
   # How do the environment and the society influence the individual
   agent and vice versa?
   # What are the knowledges, translations or other hierarchies that
   emerge in such settings?
   # What tools do we use in these explorations?
   # How are these phenomena reflected in off and on-line societies?

   AUDIENCE
   General AI community, researchers in the domain of theories of chaos
   and nonlinear systems, cognitive scientists, linguists, psychologists,
   anthropologists, social scientists in general, computer scientists in
   general.

   SUBMISSIONS
   Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-3 page manuscript on
   their proposed chapter via e-mail on or before August 12, 2007. Upon
   acceptance of your proposal, you will have until December 16, 2007 to
   prepare your chapter. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms
   and definitions will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal.

   You will be notified about the status of your proposed chapter by
   September 9, 2007. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI
   Global, [2]http://www.igi-pub.com/, publisher of IGI Publishing
   (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM
   Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science Reference
   (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints in 2008.

   Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
   document) or by mail to:

   Dr. Goran Trajkovski, Chair, IT Department
   South University
   709 Mall Blvd
   Savannah, GA 31406, USA
   gtrajkovski at southuniversity.edu
   [3]http://www.gorantrajkovski.info

   or

   Dr Samuel Collins, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and
   Criminal Justice
   Towson University
   8000 York Rd, Towson, MD 21252
   scollins at towson.edu

   --
   Cordially yours,
   Dr. Goran Trajkovski
   [4]http://www.gorantrajkovski.info
   --------------------------------------------
   Coming Up:
   AAAI Fall Symposium 2007
   Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of
   Intelligence
   [5]http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/academic/FSS07/

References

   1. https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213
   2. http://www.igi-pub.com/
   3. http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/
   4. http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/
   5. http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/academic/FSS07/

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