Speakers
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Cristiano Castelfranchi
Instititute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC),
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)The guiding aim of Christiano Castelfranchi's research is to study autonomous goal-directed behavior as the root of all social phenomena, at the same time highlighting how social life shapes individual cognition.
A key aspect of his research is the cognitive structure of society: how individual cognition contributes to determine social dynamics, studied in various phenomena such as normative behavior, power and dependence relations, trust and delegation, mind ascription, collective and joint action, communication, deception.
Topics: Socio-cognitive Theory of Trust and Trust, Emergence, and Cognition
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Hartmut Schmeck
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB),
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Hartmut Schmeck is (co-)author of more than 140 publications on advanced algorithms and architectures, in particular on bio-inspired methods in optimisation, algorithms for reconfigurable architectures, and, more recently, on self-organising, adaptive systems. He is a key member of the "Organic Computing Initiative" and coordinator of the German priority research program SPP 1183 on "Organic Computing".
He is involved in several projects that explore the future of energy systems and is especially interested in developing Organic Computing techniques for the smart home and for e-mobility.
Topics: Self-organizing Energy Systems – Aspects of Dependability and Trustworthiness
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Audun Jøsang
University of Oslo and Queensland University of Technology
Audun Jøsang is considered one of the leading international experts in the rapidly growing area of trust and reputation systems. Subjective logic and multinomial Bayesian reputation systems developed by Prof. Jøsang are being applied worldwide by industry and academic research.
He is also an expert in information security for which he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and has supervised numerous Masters and PhD students in Australia (QUT) and in Norway (NTNU and University of Oslo).
Topics: Computational Trust Analysis with Subjective Logic and Online Reputation Systems: Methods, Applications and Challenges
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Wolfgang Reif
Institute for Software & Systems Engineering,
Augsburg UniversityWolfgang Reif's expertise is in software engineering, formal methods, self-organisation principles, safety, security and reliability. He is involved in the special priority programme Organic Computing and is the speaker of the research unit OC-Trust.
Current research includes the uses of self-organisation principles in power management systems. A special focus is on making decisions in such mission-critical systems under uncertainty and establishing system structures that support the systems' objectives.
Topics: Controlling Self-Organisation with Behavioural Corridors and Trust-based Algorithms and Decision Procedures for Power Management Systems
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Christian Müller-Schloer
Institute for Systems Engineering,
Leibniz Universität HannoverChristian Müller-Schloer's main research interest is in a deeper understanding of the mechanisms governing the self-organization of natural systems and the possibilities to transfer these mechanisms to complex technical systems. He has co-initiated the successful DFG special priority program of Organic Computing, which has found major public attention in Germany and worldwide. In the research unit OC-Trust he focuses on trust relations between agents and how they are the basis for a trustworthy system.
Topic: Introduction to Organic Computing and Social Organic Computing