WIT-EC'13 2013 - IJCAI 2013 WORKSHOP ON INCENTIVE AND TRUST IN E-COMMERCE (WIT-EC'13)

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Category computer science

Deadline: April 20, 2013 | Date: August 03, 2013

Venue/Country: Beijing, China, China

Updated: 2012-11-26 08:24:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'13), August 3-9, 2013, in Beijing, China.

With the growth of electronic marketplaces, frauds in e-markets are on the rise.

Some possible sources of frauds could be: 1) anonymous identities of trading

parties; 2) uncertainty about quality of products due to the asymmetry of information

between trading parties; and 3) the lack of interpersonal interactions among them in e-markets.

Trust and reputation mechanisms seem to be effective solutions to enhance the performance

of participants in e-markets. However, they cannot show their full functionalities without

proper contributions of participants in providing honest information about each other.

Therefore, trust and reputation mechanisms should be accompanied with self-enforcing

mechanisms in order to provide sufficient incentives for participants to disseminate and

share their truthful information. On another hand, trust and reputation measures are often

used as part of incentive mechanisms to promote honesty in e-markets. Thus, trust and

incentives have such a bidirectional relationship.

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in both the area

of game theory for designing incentive mechanisms and the area of trust and reputation

modeling, towards the design of more effective trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms

for creating safe e-marketplace environments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Social, cognitive and computational trust, reputation and inventive models

- Robustness of trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms

- Attacks on, and defences for, trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms

- Cross-cultural approaches

- Components and dimensions of socio-technical trust

- Game theoretic approaches to trust and reputation

- Risk management and trust

- Trust management dynamics

- Trust, regret, and forgiveness

- Economic drivers for trustworthy systems

- Trust and economic models

- Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis

- Context-aware trust assessments

- Evolution of trust

- Trust-based incentive mechanisms

- User interfaces to incentive mechanisms

Previous Workshop:

Reacting to the strong needs and trend, the Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Commerce

(WIT-EC'12) (http://trust.sce.ntu.edu.sg/wit-ec12) was organized by the above organizers together

with the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'12), on June 4-8, 2012, in Valencia, Spain,

to bring together researchers in both the area of game theory for designing incentive mechanisms

and the area of trust and reputation modeling, towards the design of more effective trust,

reputation and incentive mechanisms for creating safe e-marketplace environments.

Following up the success of the WIT-EC'12 workshop, we invite eight accepted papers to the

special issue of Computational Intelligence on Incentives and Trust in E-Commerce

(http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/zhangj/doc/cfp-ci-si-trust.pdf) aiming to further elicit articles

in a more comprehensive and extended form that contribute to the resolving of the above mentioned challenges.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Christian Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Program Committee (Tentative)

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland

Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada

Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada

Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Kate Larson, University of Watelroo, Canada

Masakatsu Nishigaki, Shizuoka University, Japan

Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Julita Vassileva, Univeristy of Saskatechwan, Canada

Yao Wang, Communication Research Centre, Canada

Thomas Tran, University of Ottawa, Canada

Edith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ning Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illiois at Springfield, US

Radu Jurca, Google, Zurich

Scott Buffett, National Research Council, Canada

Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Workshop Organizer

Zeinab Noorian

z.noorianunb.ca

Phone:(506) 453-4566

Fax:(506) 453-3566

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline : April 20, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2013

Camera-ready Paper: May 30, 2013

Workshop Date: August 3, 2013

Submission and Proceedings

All submissions should be not longer than 12 pages in LNCS format. Please submit

your paper on WIT-EC'12 Easychair site.

Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity

and clarity. All articles selected for publication will be reviewed by at least

two reviewers with expertise in the area.

We plan to have a post-proceeding for the accepted papers, and also invite the best

papers for the journal special issue.