Joint Sessions in Cyprus

Three joint sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 16th, as part of the workshops, with the participation of all 5 WGs:

11:30-13:00: Panel on Trust, Argumentation and Semantics

Moderator: Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK

Panellists:

  • Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, ES
  • Eugenio Oliveira, U Porto, PT
  • Piero Bonatti, U Napoli Federico II, IT
  • Jordi Sabater, IIIA-CSIC, ES

Topics:

  • How can trust and negotiation models be integrated/combined to improve one another?
  • How can evidence in the form of arguments (with different strength and reliability) be incorporated within models of trust?
  • What is the relationship between techniques for semantic mismatches and alignment and trust mechanisms?
  • What is the role of trust, argumentation, negotiation and semantics in current technological trends like Cloud computing and Crowd-sourcing?
  • What are the practical bounds to models of negotiation, argumentation and trust in real world scenarios?
  • What challenges need to be addressed for models of negotiation, argumentation, trust and semantics to be used in large-scale open distributed systems?

Minutes of the panel

14:30 - 16:00: Panel on Norms, Organisations, and Semantics

Moderator: Michael Luck, King’s College, UK

Panellists:

  • Axel Polleres, DERI, IE
  • Marco Colombetti, U Lugano, CH
  • Olivier Boissier, EMSE, FR
  • John-Jules Meyer, U Utrecht, NL

Topics:

  • What is the relation between norms and policies, and what are the similarities and the differences in the way they are designed, negotiated, enforced and maintained? What implications are there for organisations depending on these different perspectives, and to what extent do these address questions relating to the trust layer in the Semantic Web layer cake?
  • Are the evolution of norms and organisational change just two sides of the same coin? What are the factors that trigger these processes and how are they sustained? Is there a consequence of such change for static semantic representations? Conversely, do things like ontology alignment drive organisational change or evolution of norms?
  • How do semantic web languages (or standards) and norm-based or organisation-based programming languages (or methodologies) relate to each other? Where do you see a potential for cross-fertilisation?
  • The Semantic Web is heavily driven by the development and adoption of standards. How should these impact on practical developments in the areas of norms and organisations What scope is there for the development and adoption of similar standards for organisations and norms?
  • Should one aspire to make social norms, such as “belligerence is not nice” or “be polite”, become part of the context where agreements take place? For example, in the Semantic Web, it is implicit that groups or organisations adopt a norm on which vocabulary or ontology to use. Should these norms be explicitly represented? What about norms that specify use of these across multiple groups or organisations? How might this be done and what are the technical challenges raised by doing so?
  • In your view, what is the greatest contribution that the area of WG1/WG2/WG3 can make to the others? What are you doing to make this happen? What do you recommend to others to do?

Slides of the panel

16:30- 18:00: Agreement Technologies Community Meeting

  • Summary of the results and conclusionms from the workshops (WG chairs)
  • Experiences from past Action activities, and activities planned for the next year (Action chair)
  • Open discussion: experiences and expectations of early-stage and senior researchers regarding the Action

Minutes and slides of the meeting

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