11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

http://www.paams.net
paams@usal.es
Salamanca (Spain), 22nd-24th May, 2013


Plenary Speaker

Longbing Cao - Agent Mining: The Synergy of Multiagent Systems and Data Mining.

SCOPE
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent system, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

TOPICS
Problems
·    Agent-based simulation and prediction
·    Distributed problem solving
·    Agent cooperation and negotiation
·    Agent societies and social networks
·    Real-time multi-agent systems
·    Human agent interaction, user interfaces
·    Adaptation, learning and personalization
·    Reputation, trust, privacy and security
·    Agent engineering and development tools
·    Evaluation, ethical and legal issues
Domains
·    Information recovery and information systems
·    Knowledge management and data intensive systems
·    Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
·    Embodied agents and autonomous systems
·    Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
·    Internet softbots and web intelligence
·    Virtual agents, animation and games
·    Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
·    E-learning and educational systems
·    User-centered applications and assisting agents

DEMO AWARD
The best demo paper in PAAMS'13 will be awarded with 2000? and a diploma.

GRANTS
The BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca, organiser of PAAMS 2013, offers 40 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.
More information: http://www.paams.net/grants

SUBMISSION
Review process
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Types of submissions
They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10-12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2012 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI series.

IMPORTANT DATES
·    Paper submission deadline: November 26th, 2012
·    Notification of acceptance: January 28th, 2012
·    Camera-Ready papers due: February 25th, 2013
·    Conference Celebration: May 22nd-24th, 2013

COMMITTEES
Scientific
·    Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
·    Toru Ishida - Kyoto University (Japan)
Organizing
·    Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
·    Javier Bajo - Technical University of Madrid (Spain)

CONTACT
Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Dr. Javier Bajo
Web: http://www.paams.net
Email: paams@usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34 618 696589
Fax: +34 923 294514
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http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/CFP/PAAMS13_Call_For_Papers.pdf

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)

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2012)

            10th International Workshop on
             Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
                             (DALT 2012)

                          4 or 5 June 2012

                           Valencia, Spain
                (held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012)

         URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/

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The workshop  on Declarative Agent Languages  and Technologies (DALT),
in  its tenth  edition this  year,  is a  well-established forum  for
researchers  interested  in  sharing  their experiences  in  combining
declarative  and  formal approaches  with  engineering and  technology
aspects  of agents  and  multiagent systems.   Building complex  agent
systems calls for models  and technologies that ensure predictability,
allow for  the verification of properties,  and guarantee flexibility.
Developing  technologies  that can  satisfy  these requirements  still
poses  an  important   and  difficult  challenge.   Here,  declarative
approaches  have the  potential of  offering solutions  satisfying the
needs   for  both  specifying   and  developing   multiagent  systems.
Moreover,  they  are gaining  more  and  more  attention in  important
application   areas  such  as   the  semantic   web,  service-oriented
computing, security,  and electronic contracting.

DALT 2012 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2012, the 11th
International  Joint Conference  on Autonomous  Agents  and Multiagent
Systems,  in June  2011 in Valencia, Spain.   Following the  success of
nine previous editions, DALT will again aim at providing a discussion
forum to  both (i) support  the transfer of declarative  paradigms and
techniques  to   the  broader  community  of   agent  researchers  and
practitioners, and (ii) to bring  the issue of designing complex agent
systems  to  the  attention  of  researchers  working  on  declarative
languages and technologies.

DALT 2012 will have as a special interest topics those future trends of
the web, where declarative languages and technologies for multiagents
systems will play an effective role: in particular, social computing
(models of social interactions, trust, commitments, and contracts;
social  environments based on declarative technologies) and its related
semantic issues (explicit representation of knowledge and mechanisms for
allowing societies of agents to reason on that).

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                          TOPICS OF INTEREST
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DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social
computing
* models of social interactions among agents
* models of buiness interactions among agents
* models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents
* declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies
* social environments based on declarative technologies
* Semantic Web-aware declarative agents

General themes:
* specification of agents and multi-agent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems

Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
* game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
* semantics of agent communication
* model checking agents and multi-agent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification, verification, and reasoning

Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and
service-oriented computing

Applications of declarative techniques to:
* multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing
* agent-based grid computing
* security and trust in multi-agent systems
* e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social
networks, virtual organizations.

Evaluation of declarative approaches:
* experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies
* industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies

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We  welcome and  encourage  the submission  of high-quality,  original
papers, which  are not being submitted  simultaneously for publication
elsewhere.  Papers  should be written in  English, formatted according
to the Springer LNCS style,  and not exceed 16 pages. Paper submission
is electronic via the conference website.

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                         WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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Printed copies of  the proceedings will be available  at the workshop.
Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality submissions, we are again
going to  consider the publication of formal  post-proceedings with an
international  publisher.   The post-proceedings  of  DALT 2003  (LNAI
2990), DALT 2004  (LNAI 3476), DALT 2005 (LNAI  3904), DALT 2006 (LNAI
4327),  DALT 2007 (LNAI  4897), DALT  2008 (LNAI  5397),  DALT 2009
(LNAI  5948), and DALT 2010 (LNAI 6619) have  been published  by
Springer-Verlag  in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

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                           IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline:                    28 February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10 April 2012
Workshop Date:                                4 or 5 June     2012

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                         WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
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Affective Computing (AC’2011)

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Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’2011)

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011

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The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters).

Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents).

The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Affective Computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of emotions

Individual Emotion recognition

Social Web

Personality in Agents Architectures

Group Emotion

Emotion and learning

Artificial characters

Affect and emotion recognition

Emotion and memory

Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction;

Using reputation and trust models in social interactions

Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions

Infrastructure and policy for affective computing

Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems

Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies

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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format.

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011 conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the Affective Computing.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011

Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011

Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011

EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011

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PUBLICATION

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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs.

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published book.

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Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal)

Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA)

Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal)

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WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010

Second INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010
31st August 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/
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The workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/

Summary
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Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence. However, many real world domains are characterised by even greater complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organisational structures. This workshop's thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.

This workshop aims to foster discussions on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems, addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions of members in research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach their problems.

Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
o How to enable agents to form and follow joint agreements and contracts in complex organisational and market driven domains.
o How to develop a comprehensive contractual formation/maintenance framework applicable to many application domains.
o How to build comprehensive customer lifecycle management systems for customers, including telecommunication consumers, students and patients.
o How to deploy lifecycle management systems in real world applications, such as healthcare, telecommunication, and smart campuses.
o How to design markets that are adequate for agents to act with incomplete and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating agents. o How to build MAS that work efficiently in partially regulated markets (where governance policy or partnership agreements govern part of the market).
o What are the implications of partial regulation on the management of contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents and the distribution/execution of tasks.
o How to cope with collaborators that exhibit unreliable and non-conformant behaviour, eg where agreements are made but are not always conformed with.
o How can interventions and incentive structures assist in managing contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How to assign transaction costs to actions in planning, assignment, and execution in organisational structures. o How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system which is further influenced by the organisational context under which the collaboration takes place. o Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation inform collaborative agent settings.
o What role does learning and adaptivity play in building organisational MAS.

The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from senior agent researchers.


Contact
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CARE organisers

christian.guttmann@gmail.com
dignum@cs.uu.nl

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

Notification: May 28, 2010
Camera ready: June 7, 2010


Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
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RESEARCH
* Collaboration frameworks
* Models of teamwork and joint action
* Organisation/Institutes/Norms
* Auctioning/Negotiation
* Task/Resource allocation
* Behaviour modelling/monitoring
* Adherence/Intervention mechanisms
* Incentive frameworks
* Intervention mechanisms
* Agreement technology
* Contract networks/formation
* Cloud computing

APPLICATION AREAS
* Collaborative care planning/management * Disaster planning/management
* Traffic planning/management
* Transport/Logistics
* Applications in primary and preventative healthcare * Chronic disease planning/management
* Epidemiological agent models
* Unmanned air/land vehicles
* Robotic soccer/Robotic rescues
* Weather forecast
* Artificial and natural immune systems
* Social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook,...)
* Smart grid network (e.g., electricity/gas metering)

Submission and Publication
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Submission is to be done electronically at Cyberchair at: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat10/scripts/ws_submit.php. CARE 2010 seeks 4-page submissions formatted according to IEEE specification.
Style Files for Paper Submission
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:
DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc PDF:ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf PS: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

Post-Proceedings will be published with a major international publisher (most likely Springer as for the CARE 2009).

Workshop Officials
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Christian Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
Frank Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wei Chen (Intelligent Automation, Inc., United States of America)
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Michael Luck (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)   
Franziska Klügl (Örebro University, Sweden)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy)
Alexander Pokahr (University Hamburg, Germany)
Lars Brauchbach (University Hamburg, Germany)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne University, Australia) Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Gord McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics, United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International, United States of America)
Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Simon Goss (Defence Science and Technology Organisation DSTO, Australia)

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

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

================ CALL FOR PAPERS ==========================

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
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 - British University in Dubai, 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
Tim Verwaart - Delft University of Technology
Hans Weigand - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow - Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

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