Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-2012)

The Third Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems                  (CoopMAS-2012)

            http://staff.science.uva.nl/~stephane/coopmas12/

                  Workshop co-located with AAMAS-2012
                            Valencia, Spain
                         June 4th or 5th, 2012

**Key dates**

  * Submission of contributions: February 28th 2012
  * Acceptance notification: March 27th 2012
  * Workshop: June 4th or 5th, 2012

*Submission Instructions*

Submission must follow the Springer LNCS format and should be a maximum of 15 pages.

Papers must be submitted in PDF through easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coopmas2012

*Aims and Focus*

The use of cooperative game theory to study how agents should cooperate and collaborate, along with the related topic of coalition formation, has received growing attention from the multiagent systems, game theory, and electronic commerce communities.

The workshop is intended to focus on topics in cooperation in multi-agent systems, cooperative game theory and cooperative solution concepts, formation of coalitions, negotiation between agents, joint decision making, and voting. We encourage submission of papers describing original or recently published work (in venues that are not typically attended by AAMAS participants, i.e., conferences other than AAMAS/AAAI/IJCAI). We also encourage submission of full version of short papers accepted at AAMAS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Cooperative game theory
  * Coalition formation
  * Joint decision making and voting
  * Representation issues
  * Negotiation
  * Collaborative filtering
  * Market and economics based cooperation
  * Interact with humans (negotiation / collaboration)

The workshop should be of interest to researchers in cooperative game theory and coalition formation, as well as to those who examine collaboration between agents, cooperation in multiagent systems and design and implement collaborating agents. We also welcome participants who are interested in applications of cooperative game theory, which include trading agents, sponsored search and recommender systems.

*Program Committee*
Confirmed PC members (to be completed)
  * Haris Aziz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
  * Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
  * Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
  * Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
  * Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  * Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
  * Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)

*Workshop Organizers*

  * Stéphane Airiau (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  * Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, Cambridge United Kingdom)
  * Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)   * Lirong Xia (CRCS, Harvard University, United States)

14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2010 - AI and Knowledge Societies: Learning, Sharing, Amplifying -

Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10th September, 2010
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 15th, 2010 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

**** Keynote Speakers ****
John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, DFKI, Germany

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SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. AIMSA 2010 is supported by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2010, we would like to put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge societies where knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing empower individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is extensively used in the development of systems for effective management and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, Artificial Intelligence techniq
ues are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.  AIMSA 2010 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues with special attention to works that demonstrate the potential of AI for supporting learning, sharing, and amplifying of knowledge.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

   * AI in education
   * Ambient intelligence
   * Automated reasoning
   * Collaborative knowledge construction
   * Computer vision
   * Data mining and data analysis
   * Data semantics
   * Dialogue management and argumentation
   * Distributed AI
   * Information integration
   * Information retrieval
   * Intelligent decision support
   * Intelligent techniques for personalization and recommendation
   * Intelligent user interfaces
   * Knowledge engineering
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Large scale knowledge management
   * Logic and constraint programming
   * Machine learning
   * Multi-agent systems
   * Multimedia systems
   * Natural language processing
   * Neural networks
   * Ontologies (creating, learning, mapping, merging, alignment, evolution)    * Planning
   * Robotics
   * Semantic interoperability
   * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
   * Semantic web content creation and annotation
   * Semantic web for desktops or personal information management
   * Semantic web for e-learning, e-business, e-culture, e-government, healthcare    * Semantic web inference schemes
   * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)    * Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation    * Social network analysis, including community discovery and structure
   * Social networks and processes on the semantic web
   * Trust, privacy, and security on the web
   * Visualization and modelling and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2010 programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline: April 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance: June 05, 2010
   Deadline for camera-ready: June 25, 2010
   Conference: September 8-10, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) on the address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2010.

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2010 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
dichevad@wssu.edu
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev@iinf.bas.bg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)   Grigoris Antoniou (ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece)     Annalisa Appice (University of Bari, Italy)  Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Franz Baader (Technical University Dresden, Germany)  Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)  Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague)   Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Paulo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Valerie Camps (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Yves Demazeau (CNRS, LIG Laboratory, France) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)  Ben du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK) Stefan Edelkamp (TZI, Bremen University, Germany) Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)  Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)  Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)   Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)  Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dominikus Heckmann (Saarland University, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia)  Atanas Kyriakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria) H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)  Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, Spain) Dominique Longin (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Pierre Marquis (University of Artois, France) Erica Melis (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany) Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy) Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury , New Zealand)  Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Marco Pistore (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enric Plaza (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute – CSIC, Spain) Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)  Zbigniew Ras  (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)       Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy)  Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (Institute of Information Science and Technologies - CNR, Italy) York Sure (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)    Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)  Klaus Tochtermann (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania) Petko Valtchev (University of Montréal, Canada) Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IIT – BAS)

Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

               June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands

                              http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/

IMPORTANT DATES:

- April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due
- April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
- May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation

PUBLICATION:

We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation. Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format. Papers should not be more 6000 words. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. 
 

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference.

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular, when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests.

The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with emotions and moods in human-human interactions.

In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges:

models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent, conflict handling styles, experimental methods.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
 

- Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance)
- Argumentation for negotiation
- Negotiation interaction
- Learning in negotiation
- Negotiation domain knowledge
- Case studies
- Preference elicitation
- Qualitative preferences
- Incomplete preferences
- Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge)
- Negotiation Support Systems
- User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems
- Human-machine negotiation
- Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus building
- Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five)
- Emotions in negotiation
- Cultural factors in negotiation
- Negotiation bidding advice
- Negotiation conflict styles
- Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice
- Negotiation applications
- E-commerce
- Methods and tools for negotiation tasks
- Design and Evaluation of support systems
- Conflict handling styles and consensus building
- HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation
 

Program Chairs:

Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Brooke Abrahams, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
Yakov Gal, Harvard University, US
Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gert Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Raz Lin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Steve Love, Brunel University, UK
Tom McEwan, Napier University, UK
Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates
Valentin Robu, University of Southamption, UK
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dmytro Tykhonov, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tim Verwaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.n

2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
                Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Papers Due: *** 31 March 2010 *** 
# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of 
# the series of LNCS/LNAI.
# Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
# considered for publication in special issues of journals,
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Brain Informatics (BI) is an emerging interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary research field that focuses on studying the
mechanisms underlying the human information  processing system (HIPS). 
BI investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from
perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multi-
perception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic
search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving,
learning, discovery, and creativity.  One goal of BI research is to
develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to an integrated
understanding of macroscopic and microscopic level working principles
of the brain, by means of experimental, computational, and cognitive
neuroscience studies, as well as utilizing advanced Web Intelligence 
(WI) centric information technologies.  Another goal is to promote
new forms of collaborative and interdisciplinary work.  New kinds
of BI methods and global research communities will emerge, through
infrastructure on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids that enables high
speed and distributed, large-scale analysis and computations, and
radically new ways of data/knowledge sharing.

The series of Brain Informatics Conferences started with
The First WICI International Workshop on Web Intelligence meets 
Brain Informatics (WImBI'06), held at Beijing, China, December 
15-16, 2006.  The second conference, Brain Informatics 2009, was 
held again in Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009.  The Brain
Informatics Conferences provide a leading international forum to bring
together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as
computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, Web
intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, medical science, life
science, economics, data mining, data and knowledge engineering,
intelligent agent technology, human computer interaction, complex
systems, and system science, to explore the main research problems in
BI lie in the interplay between the studies of human brain and the
research of informatics.  On the one hand, one models and
characterizes the functions of the human brain based on the notions of
information processing systems. WI centric information technologies
are applied to support brain science studies.  For instance, the
wisdom Web and knowledge grids enable high-speed, large-scale
analysis, simulation, and computation as well as new ways of sharing
research data and scientific discoveries.  On the other hand,
informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on fMRI, EEG, MEG
significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain
sciences and offer new insights into the development of human-level
intelligence on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids.

Brain Informatics 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010).  
The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

- Thinking and perception-centric investigations of HIPS:

* Human reasoning mechanisms 
  (e.g., principles of human deductive/inductive reasoning, 
   common-sense reasoning, decision making, and problem solving)
* Human learning mechanisms 
  (e.g., stability, personalized user/student models)
* Emotion, heuristic search, information granularity, and autonomy 
  related issues in human reasoning and problem solving
* Human higher cognitive functions and their relationships
* Human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, 
  and tactile information processing
* Methodologies for systematic design of cognitive experiments
* Investigating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS and
  the related neural structures and neurobiological process 
* Cognitive architectures; their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG
* HIPS meets complex systems
* Modeling brain information processing mechanisms
  (e.g., neuro-mechanism, mathematical, cognitive and computational models 
   of HIPS).

- Information technologies for the management and use of brain data:

* Human brain data collection, pre-processing, management, and analysis
* Databasing the brain and constructing data brain models
* Data brain modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data
* Multi-media brain data mining and reasoning
* Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG activations
* Simulating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS
* Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals
* Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging
* Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation
* Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging

- Applications

* Neuro-economics and neuro-marketing
* Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) 
* Brain/Cognition inspired artificial systems
* Wisdom Web systems based on new cognitive and computational models
* MCI and AD diagnosis 
* e-Science, e-Health and e-Medicine

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all BI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. 
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). (Pending for approval.)

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI 
manuscript submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
for their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer 
LNCS/LNAI style file).  All papers must be submitted electronically 
in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result 
paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission 
form can be found the BI'10 Web page at
http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from BI'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Cognitive Systems Research: An International Journal"
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13890417) by Elsevier. 

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Awards
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BI 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred
on the authors at the conference.  

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): 
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chairs:
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
 * Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Technical Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Email: Yiyu Yao 
       Jimmy Huang 

Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning

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    Special session on ==Logics for Games and Strategic Reasoning==
       at CLIMA XI (Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems)
               Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-17, 2010
                     (colocated with ECAI'10)
      http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXI/sessions.html

                       1st Call for Papers

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Submission deadline: May 7th.
Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).
Postproceedings: extended versions of selected papers will be published
in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
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INTRODUCTION

Strategic reasoning occurs in many multi-agent systems. This is
especially evident in game-theoretical and decision-theoretical models
of MAS, but also in more informal settings using the game metaphor (like
computer games or social network services). Mathematical logic can
contribute to this view in many ways by providing specifications,
models, and/or algorithms for game-like scenarios. We invite papers that
address how logic can contribute to our understanding, modeling and
analysis of games, but also ones that investigate how the metaphor of
games and strategies can help in constructing and using logical formalisms.

The list of subjects includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
- Logics for reasoning about games and strategies
- Modal logics of strategic ability
- Logical foundations of game and decision theory
- Logical approaches to rationality and bounded rationality
- Solving games and verification of strategies by model checking
- Logics for mechanism design
- Game semantics for logics
- Games in verification of logical specifications

SUBMISSION

We encourage submission of high quality, original papers which have not
been accepted for publication nor are currently under review for another
journal or conference. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in the
Springer LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . Papers should be
submitted electronically via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clima2010 .

PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS

LNCS Proceedings: All the accepted papers (including special session
papers) will be published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop.

AMAI Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will
be invited to extend and re-submit their work to a special issue of
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:                              May 7, 2010
Author notification:                          June 4, 2010
Camera-ready deadline:                       June 16, 2010
Workshop:                               August 16-17, 2010

ORGANIZATION AND CONTACT

The special session is organized by Wojtek Jamroga, University of
Luxembourg. In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
at wojtek.jamroga@uni.lu . General questions about CLIMA XI should be
sent to clima2010@easychair.org .

Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)

Call for Papers

Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/tada2010/index.html

June 7th or 8th, 2010, Cambridge, MA
Held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC10)


**Submission Deadline: April 1, 2010**

Trading agents have become a prominent application area in Artificial Intelligence because of their potential benefits in electronic commerce, and because they present a stiff challenge to models of rational decision-making. A wide variety of trading scenarios and agent approaches have been studied, creating a broad and rich research area. This workshop will focus on the design and evaluation of trading agents. Papers on trading agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, theoretical analysis, empirical evaluations of agent strategies in negotiation scenarios, and game-theoretic analyses, are all within the scope of the workshop.


This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Trading Agent Competition (TAC-2010) http://www.sics.se/tac with finals held during the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2010)  http://www.sigecom.org/ec10/, but paper submissions need not be directly related to TAC. In fact, we encourage submissions related to other trading scenarios.


**Important Dates and Deadlines**

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 23, 2010
Early registration deadline for EC 2010: May 7, 2010
Camera Copy Deadline: May 15, 2010
Workshop: June 7th or 8th, 2010


**Submission Instructions**

Papers should be 8 two-column pages, including references. Manuscripts are exptected to be in English, and should be in PDF format. You should use the ACM SIG proceedings template http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System website
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**Program Committee**

Michael Benisch, Carnegie Mellon University
John Collins, University of Minnesota
Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Patrick Jordan, University of Michigan
Wolf Ketter, RSM Erasmus University
Kate Larson, (Chair) University of Waterloo
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool
Tracy Mullen, Pennsylvania State University
Victor Naroditskiy, University of Southampton
Jinzhong Niu, City University of New York
David Pardoe, University of Texas
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney

Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

AAMAS-2010 Tutorial
on
Decision Making in Multiagent Systems

Call for Participation

Toronto, Canada,
May 10-14 2010

We are glad to invite you to participate in the Decision Making in Multiagent Systems Tutorial, that brings together two very successful tutorial from previous years: the DEMI Tutorial from AAMAS-09 and the Decision Theoretic Planning Tutorial from IJCAI-09.

This full-day tutorial deals with time-extended decision making in multi-agent systems. Drawing motivation, in part, from the search and rescue applications in disaster management, the tutorial will span the range of multiagent interactions of increasing generality, and study a set of optimal and approximate solution techniques to time-extended decision making in both noncooperative and cooperative multiagent contexts. This self-contained tutorial will begin with the relevant portions of game theory and culminate with several advanced decision-theoretic models of agent interactions.

The list of topics includes:

* Requirements for the multiagent decision model and solution

* Game theory background
  -- Repeated strategic and Bayesian games
  -- Iterative solution methods (e.g. fictitious play)

* Partially observable stochastic games (POSGs)
  -- Basics of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partial Observability (POMDPs)
  -- Decentralised Formulation of MDPs (Dec-MDPs)
  -- Interactive POMDPs (I-POMDPs)

* Uncertainty utilization
  -- Targeted trajectory distributions (TTD-MDP)
  -- Stigmergic solution with perceptual control (Multi-agent EMT)

* Team decision making in Dec-MDP models
  -- Decision theoretic view of Dec-MDPs
  -- Computational and structural analysis of Dec-MDP models
  -- Optimal and approximate algorithm design for Dec-MDPs

All tutorial materials will be made available on-line at
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan/tutorialDMMS/

Registration information will be available soon at
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php?content=registration

Sincerely,

Tutorial Organizing Committee

Prashant Doshi, Zinovi Rabinovich, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Matthijs Spaan, Shlomo Zilberstein, Christopher Amato