[agents] Call for participation: MARA Workshop (Paris, June 17-18)

[maudet]

:: 4th MARA Get-Together: Workshop on Multiagent Resource Allocation
:: http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~maudet/mara/
:: with the support of the Algorithmic Decision-Theory COST Action
:: http://cost-ic0602.org/

Multiagent Resource Allocation (MARA), the allocation of resources 
within a system of autonomous agents that not only have preferences over 
alternative allocations of resources but also actively participate in 
computing an allocation, is an exciting area of research at the 
interface of computer science and economics.

On 17th-18th June 2010, the LAMSADE Lab. at the University 
Paris-Dauphine will host the 4th MARA Get-Together, an informal workshop 
on Multiagent Resource Allocation. The meeting is aimed at bringing 
together researchers working on different aspects of MARA. A preliminary 
programme is available (see the website).

Topics of interest include languages for modelling agent preferences in 
resource allocation applications; the study of algorithms for resource 
allocation (including combinatorial auctions and distributed negotiation 
schemes); complexity issues; simulation and experiments; and connections 
to work in social choice theory and fair division.

Anyone interested is very welcome to participate in the workshop. Thanks 
to the ADT COST Action support, there will be no registration fee, but 
for planning purposes we will have to know who's coming.
If you wish to attend, please send an email to 
maudet at lamsade.dauphine.fr no later than 07 June 2010.