[agents] CfP: 2nd Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-2011)

[Wooldridge, Michael]

                            ** Call for Papers ** 
 The Second Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-2011)

              http://staff.science.uva.nl/~stephane/coopmas11/


            Workshop co-located with AAMAS-2011 // Tapei, Taiwan
                                May 3rd, 2011
   

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 focus of much of the current work in 
this area has been on exploring methods by which agents can form coalitions 
so as to solve problems of joint interest, make group decisions, and 
distribute gains arising from such cooperation.

The workshop is intended to focus on topics in cooperation in multi-agent 
systems, coalitional games, cooperative game theory and cooperative solution 
concepts, negotiation between agents, joint decision making and voting and 
formation of coalitions. We particularly encourage work on computational 
aspects of the following (non-limiting) areas:

	* Cooperative game theory
	* Coalition formation
	* Joint decision making and voting
	* Negotiation
	* Collaborative filtering
	* Market and economics based cooperation

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 hope to attract participants who are interested 
in applications of cooperative game theory, which include trading agents, 
sponsored search and recommender systems.

Key dates

	* Submission of contributions: January 30th 2011
	* Acceptance notification: February 27th 2011
	* Workshop: May 3rd, 2011

Submission Instructions

	See http://staff.science.uva.nl/~stephane/coopmas11/ 

Workshop Organizers

	* Stéphane Airiau [ILLC - University of Amsterdam, NL]
	* Yoram Bachrach [Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK]
	* Michael Wooldridge [University of Liverpool, UK]