[agents] 2nd CFP: CoopMAS 2011 @AAMAS

[Stéphane Airiau]

                            ** 2nd 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

* Key dates*

    * Submission of contributions: January 30th 2011
    * Acceptance notification: February 27th 2011
    * Workshop: May 2nd or 3rd, 2011

*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=coopmas2011

*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

*Program Committee*
Confirmed PC members (to be completed)

    * Georgios Chalkiadakis (University of Southampton, UK)
    * Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
    * Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland)
    * Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
    * Wojtek Jamroga (University of Luxembourg)
    * Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
    * Tomasz Michalak (University of Southampton, UK)
    * Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, UK)

*Workshop Organizers*

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

*Post-proceeding:
*
CoopMAS will contribute to the official joint AAMAS 2011 workshop 
proceedings in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
published by Springer.