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2nd CFP : 1st Workshop on Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents (RDA2) at ECAI 2012

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2nd Call for Papers
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"Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents''
Workshop at ECAI 2012

August 27 or 28, 2012

Montpellier, France

https://rda2-2012.greyc.fr/

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The autonomous decision capability embedded in software or robot agents is one of the major issues of
Artificial Intelligence. It is a core property for AI applications such as e-commerce, serious games,
ambient computing, social or collective robotics, companion robots, unmanned vehicles.

Autonomous agents decide and act in a given context or environment and under domain constraints, and
possibly interact with other agents or human beings e.g. to share tasks or to execute tasks on behalf of
others. It is thus important to define regulation and control mechanisms to ensure sound and consistent
behaviours both at the agent’s individual level and at the multi-agent level. Organisation models,
conversation policies, normative systems, constraints, logical frameworks address the problem of how
agents’ autonomous behaviours should be controlled, paving the way for formal or pragmatic
definitions of agents’ Rights and Duties. The issue is all the more important as autonomous agents may
encounter new situations, evolve in open environments, interact with agents based on different design
principles, act on behalf of human beings and share common resources. For instance: should an autonomous
agent take over the control from a human operator? under which circumstances?

The aim of this workshop is to promote discussions and exchanges on the different issues raised by
autonomous agents’ Rights and Duties and models that can be proposed to represent and reason on Rights
and Duties.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We encourage contributions from the following research and application areas:
• Autonomous agents and privacy protection
• Rights and duties for learning agents
• Authority sharing between autonomous agents and human users or operators
• Rights and duties of autonomous agents towards other agents; towards human users or operators
• Rights and duties of human users or operators towards autonomous agents (especially robots)
• Consistency, conflicts among rights and duties in multi-agent and human/agent systems
• Mutual intelligibility, explanations
• Rights and duties vs failures
• Rights and duties of autonomous agents and ethical issues
• Control of autonomous agents within organisations, institutions, normative systems
• Sociology and law in the modelling of rights and duties: authority, power, dependence, penalty, contracts
• Trust and reputation for autonomous agents regulation
• Emergence and evolution of rights and duties
• Knowledge representation and models for rights and duties
• Reasoning on rights and duties
• Validation of rights and duties in autonomous agents

IMPORTANT DATES

June 1st 2012: workshop paper submission deadline
June 28th 2012: notification to authors
July 9th 2012: camera ready copy submission
August 27 or 28, 2012: workshop date

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in pdf format, using the ECAI formatting style:
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/%7Eluc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip
Submissions are via EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rda22012

The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings.
In addition, the organizers will apply for a special issue of an international journal where extended
versions of selected papers of the workshop shall be published.

For further information on the workshop:https://rda2-2012.greyc.fr/

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Grégory Bonnet
Assistant Professor (MAD Team - GREYC)
www.gregory.bonnet.free.fr

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2012-04-06

Position Announcement: Radford University-Coordinator of Library Technology

Coordinator of Library Technology  
McConnell Library
Radford University, VA

John P. McConnell Library at Radford University seeks a creative, enthusiastic, 
user-oriented library technologist to join a team of library faculty committed to 
providing world-class technology support to our academic community. 

The Coordinator of Library Technology is primarily responsible for planning, 
developing, implementing, and maintaining a robust information technology 
platform supporting the Library's mission. Responsible for the administration of 
the Library Information Technology Department, supervision of the department, 
library technology budgets and purchases.  

Required Qualifications: 

Master's in Library Science or equivalent degree from a program accredited by 
the American Library Association. Extensive study and experience in 
Information Technology administration/management in academic libraries, and 
on wide variety of IT platforms.
Extensive experience with integrated library systems and proxy servers. 
Experience with library technology planning and budgeting. Experience with 
development, implementation, and maintenance of a robust information 
technology platform that supports the mission of academic libraries. 
Supervisory experience. 

Extensive and broad knowledge and experience with computer networks, library 
automation systems, server management, content management systems, and 
programming languages. Demonstrated success in teaching and training. Strong 
evidence of interest and ability in applying innovative technologies to enhance 
library services. Demonstrated understanding of the role and possibilities of 
technology in the teaching, learning, and research pursuits of a medium sized 
university.  

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Mac OS-X, UNIX/LINUX, MS-WIN7, HTML, DHTML, CSS, CGI, 
RSS, Java, Javascript, SQL/MySQL, ASP, PHP, Innovative Interfaces 
Millennium/Encore, EZ-Proxy, ILLIAD, ePrints, learning management systems, 
Drupal or other CMS platforms, dynamic web applications, Wordpress, 
presentation software, graphics and multimedia applications, a variety of open 
source technologies and protocols, an understanding of library technology end-
user needs, and a variety of office and internet applications. Demonstrated 
ability to prepare successful grant proposals for technology projects. Experience 
in website, intranet, and digital asset repository design and management. 

The Coordinator of Library Technology serves as department head for Library 
Technology, and supervises two classified staff and two A/P positions.  This is a 
full time, administrative/professional faculty position.

Salary commensurate with qualifications or experience. 

All applicants must apply online at https://jobs.radford.edu to be considered for 
the position. 

All new hires to Radford University will be subject to E-Verify beginning June 1, 
2011. E-Verify is administered by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security, 
USCIS - Verification Division and the Social Security Administration and allows 
participating employers to electronically verify employment eligibility. 

Radford University is an EO/AA employer committed to diversity.

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