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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CALL FOR
CHAPTERS</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Proposals
Submission Deadline: 8/1<span style='color:#1F497D'>5</span>/2007</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Full Chapters
Due: 12/16/2007</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213</span></a>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Agent-Based
Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A book edited
by Goran Trajkovski, South University, Savannah, GA, USA</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Samuel G. Collins,
Towson University, Towson, MD, USA</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OBJECTIVE</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>–</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOCUS</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># Interaction
and emergence of multiagent socialities</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># Emergence of
shared representations</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># How do the
environment and the society influence the individual agent and vice versa?</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># What are the
knowledges, translations or other hierarchies that emerge in such settings?</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># What tools do
we use in these explorations?</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># How are these
phenomena reflected in off and on-line societies?</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AUDIENCE</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SUBMISSIONS</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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, </span><a
href="http://www.igi-pub.com/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.igi-pub.com/</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Inquiries
and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:</span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Goran
Trajkovski, Chair, IT Department</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>South
University</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>709 Mall Blvd</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Savannah, GA
31406, USA</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>gtrajkovski@southuniversity.edu</span>
<br>
<a href="http://www.gorantrajkovski.info"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.gorantrajkovski.info</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>or</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr Samuel
Collins, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice</span>
<br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Towson
University</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>8000 York Rd,
Towson, MD 21252</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>scollins@towson.edu</span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>--<br>
Cordially yours,<br>
Dr. Goran Trajkovski<br>
</span><a href="http://www.gorantrajkovski.info"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>http://www.gorantrajkovski.info</span></a> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>--------------------------------------------
</span><br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Coming Up:</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>AAAI Fall Symposium
2007</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Emergent Agents and
Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence</span> <br>
<a href="http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/academic/FSS07/"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>http://www.gorantrajkovski.info/academic/FSS07/</span></a>
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