CALL FOR PAPER for the 1st International Workshop in Social Trust and Reputation Systems (STRS'2011)
to be held in Canadian AI'2011
(24 May2011- Saint John's,Newfoundland and Labrador Canada ),

Computational models of trust and online reputation mechanisms have been gaining huge attention in recent years. With the growth of virtual societies, we cannot further assume the existence of safe and reliable interactions between community members. Deceptive participants in artificial societies can take advantage of the lack of mechanisms in establishing trust, hence discouraging the formation of agent-based societies handled by human users. Trust can be formalized in many layers: trust between transaction partners to ensure successful interaction outcomes, trust in environments and infrastructures, and trust in authorities and management.

This workshop welcomes articles with research contributions on any topics related to personal, social and economic aspects of computational trust and reputation systems, including results and research in the fields of computer science, psychology, philosophy, management science and e-commerce. We also solicit original papers on trust management dynamics and technologies, and applications that benefit from the use of computational trust and online reputation mechanisms.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

Trust Models
Components and dimensions of Trust
Game theory and trusting behaviours
Trust Management dynamics
Trust, regret and forgiveness
Cognitive models of trusts
Reputation Mechanisms
Trust metrics assessments and threat analysis
Attacks on trust
Context-Aware trust assessments
Real-world applications(e.g. e-commerce, e-health, e-government, critical infrastructures)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: MARCH 07, 2011
Notification: APRIL 07, 2011
Camera Ready Paper: APRIL 15, 2011
Workshop Date: MAY 24, 2011

SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors are invited to submit full papers in PDF, Postscript or MS-Word RTF electronically. All papers must be written in English. Research papers can be up to 12 pages in length. Papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. Accepted submissions will be published in the workshop Proceeding. Postproceeding publication of accepted papers is being negotiated to be published as a Springer Book.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada
Pamela Briggs, Northumbria University, UK
Robin Cohen , University of Waterloo, Canada
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Michael Fleming, University of New Brunswick,Canada
Christian Jensen, Denmark Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Stephen Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Masakatsu Nishigaki, Shizuoka University, Japan
Zeinab Noorian, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Stephen Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Michael Fleming, University of New Brunswick, Canada

WORKSHOP ORGANIZER
Zeinab Noorian, University of New Brunswick, Canada

CONTACT INFO
z.noorian@unb.ca