Semantics and Provenance for Accountable Smart City Applications, The Role of Semantics in Smart Cities

Abstract: The recent media focus on Smart City services, particularly ride sharing, that provide ordinary users with the ability to advertise their resources has highlighted society’s need for transparent and accountable systems. Current systems offer little transparency behind their processes Continue reading

First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing, Call for Papers

May 5-9, 2014 @ Paris, France.

The First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing is Co-located with AAMAS 2014.

Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing — e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. This event invites papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways. Continue reading