CVO 2013 - international workshop on Opportunities and Perils for Computational Virtual Organizations

There is a strong ongoing trend for traditional organizations to adapt to socially networked nature of human population. This trend allows organizations to be transformed from brick and mortar to a more virtual nature. On the automation front, virtual organizations are erected that relieve humans of tedious, routine tasks as well as error prone decisions. Another set of virtual organizations (e.g., first responder systems) provide interface tools for timely and coherent interaction among far flung decision making components. We invite contributions from those involved in conceiving and building computational virtual organizations to share their strides in order to identify pitfalls and underscore successful steps. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and position papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers must be presented at the symposium by one of the authors, and it will appear in the proceedings of AAAI 2013 symposium series. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. High quality papers will be selected for extension and made ready for inclusion in a special issue of the “Lecture Note in Social Networks,” published by springer.
SYMPOSIUM AREA
The following is a partial list of areas of interest. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided should fit in one of the following main topic areas:
Theory of Network Computing
Social intelligence
High Speed Networks, Protocols and Middleware
System Area Networks (SAN) and Clusters
Performance Modeling and Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
Network Processors, Security, Sensor and Protocol
Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks and services
Self (configuring, healing, optimizing, protecting, organizing, aware) platforms for Network Computing
Seamless and virtual capabilities to achieve dynamic reconfiguration, self-healing, and non-stop operation
Autonomic Network and cloud Computing
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET)
Virtual organizations
computational grids and the deployment in virtual organizations
Virtual worlds through mobile devices
Augmented and virtual Reality
Virtual worlds as disruptive innovation for organizations
Products and services suitable for virtual worlds
Security issues in virtual worlds
Adaptation:
Agents argumentation, negotiation and Commitments
Coordination and distributed decision making
Semantic alignment
Inter-theory Relations
Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreement
Semantic Service Coordination
Normative Systems
Individual reasoning and Collective deliberation about norm adoption
Group planning agreements
Deliberative Agreement: social choice and collective judgment
Evolution of organizational structures
Trust:
Combined computational trust and trusted computing
Trust-enhanced collaborative applications
Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis
Trade-off between privacy and trust
Trust/risk-based security frameworks
Automated collaboration and trust negotiation
Trust in peer-to-peer systems
Applicability in large-scale, open real-world and decentralized environments
Legal and economic aspects related to the use of trust engines
Crowdsourcing
Novel mechanisms and tools (e.g., human computation, gamification) for engaging users in data generation tasks
Large-scale knowledge discovery and performance evaluation with the support of crowd
User models and human factors in designing crowdsourcing systems e.g. incentives, cognitive bias, bounded rationality, etc.
Performance evaluation and economical analysis for crowdsourcing based data mining applications
Social Capital
Measuring and alternative measurements of social capital
Social capital, social cohesion and solidarity
Anthropological Relevance and social capital
Social capital and social mobility, NGOs and Third World welfare regimes