The Reputation Special Interest Group within the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) will be holding a panel at the Fifth ESSA annual conference, to be held in September 2008 in Brescia, Italy.

The SIG on Reputation acts as a reference point for researchers investigating, by the means of Agent Based Simulation, issues related to the theory and use of the technology of reputation.

Simulation of reputation systems is becoming more and more strategically important in expanding communities (e.g., e-markets and e-networks), since growth depends on increasing the volume of affairs, enforcing the norms and promoting the users' confidence by reducing fraudulent behaviour. This SIG is created to act as a reference point for researchers interested in tackling the above problems with the tool of agent based simulation.

The Reputation SIG calls for Papers tackling all aspects thematically relevant to the above issues.

The deadline for submitting a full paper is 1 May 2008. Authors will receive a notification of acceptance by 1 June 2008. Papers are limited to 12 pages (including figures, tables and references) and should be written using the Springer lecture notes template .

Papers should be submitted via the official ESSA 2008 conference website stating in parentheses in the paper’s title “SIG-Rep”.

Papers will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted for presentation, paper givers’ names will appear in the official ESSA 2008 program and their papers will be published in the ESSA 2008 proceedings.


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