The 1st WIT-EC workshop will be held together with the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'12) June 4-8, 2012, in Valencia, Spain, co-located with the 11th AAMAS Conference. 


With the growth of electronic marketplaces, frauds in e-markets are on the rise. Some possible sources of frauds could be: 1) anonymous identities of trading parties; 2) uncertainty about quality of products due to the asymmetry of information between trading parties; and 3) the lack of interpersonal interactions among them in e-markets.

Trust and reputation mechanisms seem to be effective solutions to enhance the performance of participants in e-markets. However, they cannot show their full functionalities without proper contributions of participants in providing honest information about each other. Therefore, trust and reputation mechanisms should be accompanied with self-enforcing mechanisms in order to provide sufficient incentives for participants to disseminate and share their truthful information. On another hand, trust and reputation measures are often used as part of incentive mechanisms to promote honesty in e-markets. Thus, trust and incentives have such a bidirectional relationship.

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in both the area of game theory for designing incentive mechanisms and the area of trust and reputation modeling, towards the design of more effective trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms for creating safe e-marketplace environments. 

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Social, cognitive and computational trust, reputation and  
   inventive models
• Robustness of trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms
• Attacks on, and defences for, trust, reputation and incentive
  mechanisms
• Cross-cultural approaches
• Components and dimensions of socio-technical trust
• Game theoretic approaches to trust and reputation
• Risk management and trust
• Trust management dynamics
• Trust, regret, and forgiveness
• Economic drivers for trustworthy systems
• Trust and economic models
• Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis
• Context-aware trust assessments
• Evolution of trust
• Trust-based incentive mechanisms
• User interfaces to incentive mechanisms


Workshop Co-Chairs
Stephen Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada

Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Christian Jensen, Denmark Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

Program Committee (To be invited)

Pamela Briggs, Northumbria University, UK
Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada,
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada
Michael Fleming, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Harrison McKnight, Michigan State University, US
Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Kate Larson, University of Watelroo, Canada
Masakatsu Nishigaki, Shizuoka University, Japan
Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Julita Vassileva, Univeristy of Saskatechwan, Canada
Yao Wang, Communication Research Centre, Canada
Thomas Tran, University of Ottawa, Canada
Edith Elkind, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ning Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illiois at Springfield, US
Radu Jurca, Google, Zurich
Mark Dibben, University of Tasmania, Australia
Scott Buffett, National Research Council, Canada
Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway, and QUT, Australia
Chris Dellarocas, Boston University, US

Workshop Organizer
Zeinab Noorian
z.noorian@unb.ca

Phone:(506) 453-4566
 
Fax:(506) 453-3566


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline : April 5, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 7, 2012
Workshop Date: June 8, 2012


Submission and Proceedings

All submissions should be not longer than 12 pages in LNCS format. Please submit your paper on WIT-EC'12 Easychair site.

Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity. All articles selected for publication will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area.

We plan to have a post-proceeding for the accepted papers, and invite the best papers for the journal special issue.