We are a highly interdisciplinary research group working at the intersection among cognitive, social and computational sciences. LABSS is based at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and aims to foster an explorative approach to Agent Based Modeling and Simulation.
Paper accepted @ the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The paper Dynamic Sanctioning for Robust and Cost-Efficient Norm Compliance
by Daniel Villatoro, Giulia Andrighetto, Jordi Sabater-Mir and Rosaria Conte has been accepted at IJCAI 2011, July 16-22, Barcelona, Spain
Flagship Coordination Action - FuturICT
The LABSS – ISTC is Partner of the Coordination Action project of the FuturICT flagship proposal: the CA will start on May 2011. Visit the website of the flagship FuturICT and the ItalianHub
the ICORE conference call for papers is out!
LABSS is proud to support the 2nd International Conference on Reputation: ICORE 2011, located in Montpellier, France, September 19th, 2011
A paper on Noun morphology in Italian Sign Language
This week, we’d like to present a paper not directly related to the research of the LABSS. It is a work from a colleague of ISTC, Elena Pizzuto from the research group on deafness and sign language.
The paper is Noun morphology in Italian Sign Language , co-authored with Serena Corazza, published on Lingua in 1996.
Simulation of peer review
A first step towards an agent-based simulation of peer review. With Francisco Grimaldo from Valencia University.
Slides from EUMAS presentation
Available also at SSRN
Bye-Bye Agents? Not.
Here is a recent article by Cristiano Castelfranchi published in IEEE Internet Computing. The paper provides good insight to the interesting debate over the destiny of the agent paradigm:
Interdisciplines, Knowledge federation and peer review.
We are going to participate to the Interdisciplines Workshop on Trust and Reputation
The workshop is organized by the LiquidPublications project (http://project.liquidpub.org/) and is a co-located event of the Agreement Technologies COST Action
(http://www.agreement-technologies.eu/).
Simulating Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Communication Systems
Presentation of the paper @ ECCS’10 European Conference on Complex Systems
Authors: Walter Quattrociocchi; Rosaria Conte and Elena Lodi
Trends in Social Simulation
We made a quick analysis, based on Google Scholar, of cites’ variation for scientific publications in disciplines within the social and behavioral sciences and social ICT.
The first graph represents the variation in the number of articles carrying the ‘social simulation’ tag (blue bars, while red bars represent those not carrying the tag) in the period 2000-2004 (firs two bars) and 2004-2008 (last two bars). As it appears, cites of simulation-tagged publications always increase, unlike those not related to simulation. These latter instead show a decreasing rate of growth, or even receive a decreasing number of citations over the years.
Workshop on Norm Compliance
The workshop aims to develop a shared framework for understanding norm compliance: the process enabling an external request or command to be obeyed.