[agents] Call for Interest - Cross-Cultural Agents and Environments

[Alex Davis]

This is a call for interest in a AAAI Fall Sympsoium, "Cross-Cultural
Agents and Environments," to be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, in
November 2010.

If you might have interest in submitting a paper or attending, please
send an email with your name (no other content necessary, though
comments are welcome) to:

       ccae2010 at gmail.com


Provisional description follows.


Description:
With the advent of a global electronic community, and the
internationalization of human affairs in general, the cross-cultural
nature of interaction is a growing issue in the development of any
activity aided or mediated by software agents. The development of
agents designed for the relevant technologies—education & training,
games, social media, planning and decision making tools, computational
modeling, and simulation—draws from a wide range of study, including
the academic, the technological, and the simply practical.

The topic of this symposium draws from recent scholarship in cultural
modeling, but focuses specifically on cross-cultural interaction,
exploring work in agents that aid, simulate, model, or explain the
interaction of humans from distinct cultures. We seek to focus
research by examining the intersections of the various relevant
academic scholarship underlying, and technological applications in
need of employing, a cross-cultural approach.

The goals of the symposium are to:
•       Identify agent applications relating to cross-cultural
interaction, and explore examples of them
•       Investigate relevant social, cognitive, and anthropological
scholarship as applied to these applications
•       Study architectures, representations, and algorithms and for
computational modeling of cross-cultural interaction
•       Chart a multi-disciplinary research program, setting goals for
the achievements of relevant applications
•       Bring together researchers and practitioners from varying
disciplines, to share ideas and results, and establish relationships

We aim to bring together communities of artificial intelligence
research, social and psychological sciences, with developers of
applications within both commercial and governmental sectors. To this
end, we solicit papers such as:
•       Surveys and analysis of pertinent literature
•       Case studies of agent development containing cross-cultural aspects
•       Theoretical work in modeling cross-cultural behavior
•       Analysis of cross-cultural human behavior in relevant domains
•       Empirical comparisons of agent implementations


Planned co-chairs are myself and Michael Youngblood of UNC Charlotte.

Thanks,
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Alex

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