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Agreement Technologies Action IC0801 Sascha Ossowski Agreement Technologies Social Science Large-scale open distributed systems Area of enormous social and economic potential Paradigm Shift : beyond the client-server
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Large-scale open distributed systems
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Area of enormous social and economic potential
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Paradigm Shift: beyond the client-server architectures…
Multiagent Systems Semantic Technologies Social Science
Agreement
Vision:
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A paradigm for next-generation open distributed systems, based on the concept
agents.
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Fundamental and applied research:
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Semantics: Semantic mismatches & alignment of ontologies
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Norms: Specify and verify constraints on agreement
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Organisations: Structure the processes of reaching agreements
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Argumentation & Negotiation: Reach agreements that respect the constraints imposed by norms and organisations
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Trust: Summarise the history of agreements and agreement executions in order to build long-term relation
Semantics Norms Organisations Argumentation & Negotiation Trust
Interdisciplinary research:
and agreement processes
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Several research initiatives are currently ongoing around Europe and worldwide that address (some of) these challenges
COST Action IC0801 on “Agreement Technologies”
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: Europ. Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
− Duration: 10/2008 ̶ 10/2012 (4 years) − Overall mission:
“ to support and promote the harmonization of nationally-funded high-quality research towards a new paradigm for next generation distributed systems based
− Networking activities: coordination of research & training
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Research coordination through effective knowledge and result exchange Focused und the five key topics of Agreement Technologies
Small-scale (low cost) meetings, possibly co-located with other events
STSM programme: joint research/ funding proposal preparation
STSM programme: European PhD label/ jointly supervised PhDs
Raise awareness of the necessities of PhD students and young PostDocs
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Training events open to both participants from academia and industry Possibly in co-operation with existing training schools
Project the prospective benefits of AT to European Industry
Reference for the state of the art in AT, its applications and industrial potential
Classic dissemination means including liaisons & central Action Web Site Promotion of bi/multi-lateral research funding proposals among members
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(as of September 2009):
21 countries signed MoU 5 non-COST countries
per Action member country
countries can fully participate in the Action‟s activities
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Action Chair Action Co-Chair Action Manager WG2 Chair WG3 Chair WG4 Chair WG1 Chair WG5 Chair
WG Semantics WG Norms WG Organizations WG Trust WG Neg. & Argumentation
Core Group
Management Committee
Other Stakeholders Office Advisory Board
Axel Polleres Cristiano Castelfranchi Marco Colombetti Leila Amgoud Carles Sierra Vicent Botti Sascha Ossowski
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WG1 Semantics WG2 Norms WG3 Organisation WG4 Negotation & Argumentation WG5 Trust
– to explore the right tradeoffs between expressivity and efficiency for ontology, mapping and query languages in a distributed setting – to study semantic alignment protocols and algorithms interweaving alignment and negotiation, and possibly taking into account measures of trust
– to explore how existing standardization efforts can be enhanced to cater for agreement relevant information, and how these additions can be exploited WG1 Semantics
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flexibility
– to interpret and instantiate norms to specific situations; – to resolve conflicts between norms, especially when applied to a specific case – to study norm transgression as a motor for the evolution of norms (and
– enhance user awareness of (and control on) norms WG2 Norms
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WG1 Semantics WG2 Norms WG3 Organisation WG4 Negotation & Argumentation WG5 Trust
– to advance on effective guidelines & tools for the design of organisational structures, especially wrt. the reuse of norms/organisational patterns – to account for organisational change, as in open environments organisational structures continuously evolve so as to efficiently promote effective teamwork
– to exploit organisational information in the processes of team formation, cooperation, and dissolution, based upon dynamic agreements at runtime WG3 Organisation
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– to look into frameworks that integrate argumentation in negotiation, so as to
additional information and
adequate arguments.
– to study mechanisms that can meet the computational bounds to agreement processes based on argumentation and negotiation WG4 Negotiation & Argumentation
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WG1 Semantics WG2 Norms WG3 Organisation WG4 Negotation & Argumentation WG5 Trust
– Scalability: how to develop trust mechanisms based on other agents‟
– Semantics: how to deal with erroneous behaviour that may be caused by misunderstandings – Similarity: how to use „similar‟ cases when exact past experiences for an agreement under discussion is scarce
– The more norms can be enforced, the less need to rely on trust measures, but norm enforcement has an associated cost WG5 Trust
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