CARE​ International Workshop Series

PROGRAMME

 

Monday May 5th, 2014

Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center, 17 Boulevard Saint Jacques,  

Room: St Germain des près A

Paris, France 

 

Session 1 - Keynote & Tutorial

 

09.00 - 09.30 KEYNOTE – “Reasoning about information use and mis-use”, Dr Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen.

​

​Open multi-agent systems (MASs) can contain both benevolent and malicious agents, belonging to various organisations. The ad-hoc nature of such  MASs means that communication often takes place in a peer-to-peer manner (particularly when considering mobile agents), with one agent asking another to forward a message to a third. In such situations, a malicious agent might abuse the information encoded in a message, to the detriment of the message sender. If we assume that the benevolence or maliciousness of agents can be determined (e.g., via a trust and reputation system), then an agent within such a network faces the problem of identifying what messages it should propagate through which communication links in order to maximise its own utility. We note also that such an agent’s utility can depend on malicious agents acting on mis-information by the agent, as exemplified within military settings where false intelligence fed to an enemy is a desirable outcome. In this talk we will describe the domain, decision problem and solution, and then suggest some areas for future investigation.

 

09.30 - 10.30 TUTORIAL - "On Social Apps and Intelligent Mobile Services", Fernando Koch, Director R&D, SAMSUNG Research Institute.

 

Dr. Koch will be presenting the potential of mobile devices, social networks, and “collective thinking” to generate direct engagement of citizens and communities in urban problems. A basic premise is to create a multi-disciplinary and investigative approach to promote citizen participation, community engagement, social network, and inclusion, addressing pressing social matters. The tutorial exploits how to design and operation mobile services that, for example, let citizens annotate city issues from different domains (e.g. sustainability, maintenance, disease vectors, etc), providing basic classification of “what” is the problem. The solution must also consider the human signals generated during the application interaction, which allows to “how” the issue is being reported. Finally, it must also consider the social impact of the reports, to analyse “what is the social influence” in the community. The solutions have both practical and critical results, leading to new thinking of the role of mobile computing and agent technology in social affairs. 

 

Session 2 - SHORT PAPERS

 

• 11.00 - 11.05 Opening

• 11.05 - 11.25 Artur Freitas, Daniela Schmidt, Alison Panisson, Rafael Bordini, Felipe Meneguzzi & Renata Vieira.Integrating Multi-Agent Systems in JaCaMo using a Semantic Representation.

• 11.25 - 11.45 Cristiano Maciel, Patricia Souza, Jose Viterbo, Fabiana Mendes and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni. A Multi-Agent Architecture to Support Ubiquitous Applications in Smart Environments.

• 11.45 - 12.05 Yuya Murata, Gaku Yamamoto and Takao Terano. Computing Your Marathon Ranking as a Testbedfor Agent-Based Mobile Systems

• 12.05 - 12.15 Closing

 

Session 3 - FULL PAPERS

 

• 14.00 - 14.05 Opening

• 14.05 - 14.30 Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Arturo Tejeda, Luis Oliva, Dario Garcia-Gasulla, Victor Codina & JavierVazquez. Urban context detection and context-aware recommendation via networks of Humans as Sensors

• 14.30 - 14.55 Gabriel De O. Ramos, Ricardo Grunitzki and Ana L. C. Bazzan. On improving route choice through learning automata.

• 14.55 - 15.20 Carlos Rolim, Anubis Rossetto, Valderi Leithardt, Guilherme Borges, Tatiana Santos, Adriano Souza and Cláudio Geyer. Towards Predictive Routing Agents in Opportunistic Networks.

• 15.20 - 15.30 Discussion and Closing

 

Session 4 - Dangerous and Crazy Ideas

 

• 16.00 - 18.00 Crazy Ideas - Pitches & Q&A