[agents] Final CFP: Market-Based Control (MBC-2008): Liverpool, UK

[Enrico Gerding]

** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS **


    ** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **

        International Workshop on
     MARKET-BASED CONTROL (MBC-2008)

         University of Liverpool
           Liverpool, UK

       1-2 September 2008


        http://www.marketbasedcontrol.com/


INTRODUCTION

The problems of understanding, modelling, and above all, managing the
complexity of large distributed systems are among the most pressing in
contemporary computer science. In recent years, there has been
increasing interest in the use of economic methods for the management
and control of complex computational systems. There are strong
arguments in favour of this use of economic mechanisms, but perhaps
the most compelling is simply that, for the most part, market
mechanisms have proved enormously effective in human societies. The
aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
the theory and practice of market/economic mechanisms for complex
computational systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- market mechanisms for control or regulation of computational and other
systems
- mechanism design and synthesis for computational systems
- economic strategy design, synthesis, and analysis
- economic methods for resource & task allocation
- tools for market and mechanism analysis and design


INVITED SPEAKERS

* Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA)
* Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
* Robert Marks (Australian Graduate School of Management, Australia)
* Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)


IMPORTANT DATES

3 July 2008:       Deadline for paper submission
4 August 2008:     Notification of acceptance
1-2 September 2008:  MBC-2008 Workshop



SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers should be formatted using single column, 11pt, times roman font,
and for A4 size paper, and submitted in PDF format.  Two types of paper
are invited for submission:

* Long papers, up to a maximum of 12 pages.

* Extended abstracts, up to a maximum of 4 pages.

Papers should be submitted as email attachments and sent before the
deadline
above to:

mcburney [at] liverpool.ac.uk

Submissions are not required to be original; we welcome high quality
contemporary papers published at other events.



PROCEEDINGS & JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

An informal proceedings, including all accepted papers will be
distributed at the workshop. The best papers published at the workshop
will be invited to a special issue of the journal "Autonomous Agents &
Multi-Agent Systems" (Springer). We do not anticipate that the
acceptance of a paper at the MBC workshop will preclude submission to
other publication venues, although of course publication in the
journal special issue will exclude alternative publication.


CO-LOCATED WITH COMSOC 2008

The workshop will be held immediately before the Second Workshop on
Computational Social Choice Theory (COMSOC-2008), also being held at
the University of Liverpool:

   http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~pwg/COMSOC-2008/


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Peter McBurney
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Liverpool
  Liverpool L69 3BX UK
  mailto: mcburney [at] liverpool.ac.uk

* Enrico Gerding
  Department of EE&CS
  University of Southampton
  Southampton, UK

* Xin Yao
  School of Computer Science
  University of Birmingham, UK


PROVISIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

* Andrew Byde (HP Labs, UK)
* Simon Case (BAE Systems, UK)
* Edith Elkind (Southampton, UK)
* Alessandro Farinelli (Southampton, UK)
* Nicholas R. Jennings (Southampton, UK)
* Xudong Luo (Birmingham, UK)
* Paul Marrow (BT, UK)
* Tomasz Michalak (Liverpool, UK)
* Simon Parsons (Brooklyn College, New York, USA)
* Adam Prugel-Bennett (Southampton, UK)
* Zinovi Rabinovich (Southampton, UK)
* Michael Wooldridge (Liverpool, UK)


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