CSS-TW1:
International Workshop on
Cooperation in Selfish Systems incorporating TagWorld I.

26 May - 29 May 2006
University of Bologna Residential Center
Bertinoro (Forlì), Italy

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Supported within the EU DELIS project Cross-Cutting-Topic-2

[ Overview
| Location
| Keynote Speaker
| Important Dates
| Workshop Program
| Workshop Outline Schedule
| Registration
| Student Awards
| How to Reach Bertinoro
| Organization and Sponsorship
| Local Weather Forecast ]
NEWS

  The Workshop has now ended. Best papers have been selected for a journal special issue.

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  Workshop Programme including PDF files of talks and WWW links: click here

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Overview

Open decentralised systems, including information systems, cannot rely on their sub-components to behave in a cooperative or altruistic way. The power and benefits of individual autonomy can therefore be wiped-out by poor cooperation at the collective level. This contradiction between individual and collective good is well studied in many disciplines (e.g. biology, economics, political science etc.) and domains. Hence there are a number of theories, methods and techniques that have been advanced to bridge the individual / collective interest divide. For example, classical game theory approaches, evolutionary game theory, incentive systems and techniques from computational sociology. In this workshop we wish to bring together people working on novel models and theories in this area, particularly those harnessing evolutionary approaches. We have a specific interest in those methods with implications and applications within distributed information systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
In addition, we aim to focus on emerging tag-based methods within a set of sessions that will constitute TagWorld I - the first international workshop on tag systems. Tags, markers that bias interactions in evolving systems, have been demonstrated to produce highly cooperative and coordinated emergent behaviours. Tags were introduced by John Holland in the early 1990's and since then there has been a slow accumulation of research literature applying tags in various ways - both to understand human and biological systems and to create artificial systems with desirable or interesting properties. More recently, computer scientists have been attempting to import these desirable properties into self-organising information systems - be they agent, peer or grid-based systems - using variations on Tags. We aim to bring together researchers working with tags so they can make contact and share experiences.
We aim for the workshop to have an informal atmosphre and give speakers and participants time to interact. We are particulalry interested in participants describing open challenges of cooperation maintenance within information systems and hopefully finding novel techiques towards their solution.

Following the workshop, depending on the quality of presented work, we may seek publication of selected papers in a special issue of a relevant Journal.

Keynote Speaker

Paul Spirakis, CTI, Patras (Greece)

Location

BICI events are held in the University Residential Center located in the small medieval hilltop town of Bertinoro. This town is in Emilia Romagna about 50km east of Bologna at an elevation of about 230m.  It is easily reached by train and taxi from Bologna and is close to many splendid Italian locations such as Ravenna, Rimini on the Adriatic coast, and the Republic of San Marino (all within 35km) as well as some less well-known locations like the thermal springs of Fratta Terme, the Pieve di San Donato in Polenta and the castle and monastic gardens of Monte Maggio.  Bertinoro can also be a base for visiting some of the better-known Italian locations such as Padua, Ferrara, Vicenza, Venice, Florence and Siena.

Bertinoro itself is picturesque, with many narrow streets and walkways winding around the central peak.  Meetings are held in an archiepiscopal fortress that has been converted by the University of Bologna into a modern conference center with computing facilities and Internet access.  From the fortress you can enjoy a beautiful vista that stretches from the Tuscan Apennines to the Adriatic coast and the Alps over the Po Valley.

Important Dates

Abstracts due: 5 March 2006
Notification of participation: 31 March 2006
Registration Deadline: 5 May 10 May 2006 - registration is now closed
Workshop: 26 - 29 May 2006

Workshop Programme

A detailed workshop programme for the two days can be found here
By clicking the sessions in the outline schedule below you can go directly to a specific session.

Workshop Outline Schedule


May 26
May 27
May 28
May 29

Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday
 07.30-08.30   Breakfast
 09.00-11.00 Session 1
Cooperation in Selfish Systems
Session 5
Tag Mechanisms for Cooperation
Departures
 11.00-11.30 Coffee break
 11.30-13.00 Session 2
Cooperation in Selfish Systems
Session 6
Tag Mechanisms for Cooperation

 13.00-15.00 Lunch
 15.00-17.00     Session 3   
Cooperation in Selfish Systems
Session 7 & 8
Poblems and Challenges
Work in Progress
 17.00-17.30 Arrivals Coffee break
 17.30-19.00 Session 4
PhD Student Session
DELIS CCT2
 20.00-  Welcome
Reception
Dinner

Registration

All those attending should register before May 10th - Registration is now closed.

Student Awards

A limited number of student awards are available to cover all registration and residential costs for the period of the workshop (including accommodation, dinners, lunches and breakfasts). Award holders need only cover their travel expenses to and from the event. Students wishing to apply for an award should indicate this on their abstract submission (see above) and will be informed of acceptance by 31 of March. Awards will be made on a first-come-first-served basis so those wishing to take advantage should submit their abstract as early as possible.

How to Reach Bertinoro

Organization and Sponsorship

Organizing Committee David Hales, University of Bologna
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna

Local Organization Eleonora Campori, Centro Congressi di Bertinoro







Sponsorship
FET Integrated Project DELIS
University of Bologna, Dept. of Computer Science
BICI: Bertinoro International Center for Informatics
UNESCO REGIONAL BUREAU FOR SCIENCE IN EUROPE (ROSTE)


Last updated: 2 June 2006