[agents] CFP: AAAI 2012 Spring Symposium on Game Theory for Security, Sustainability and Health

[Bo AN]

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AAAI 2012 Spring Symposium on Game Theory for Security, Sustainability
and Health

March 26–28, 2012, Stanford University, USA.
[October 7, 2011 - Submission deadline]

Symposium Objective:
There is a large and growing interest in applying game theory to security,
health, and sustainability; which are grand challenges for engineering in the
21st century. In fact, the last five years have seen game theory based systems
developed and applied to real-world domains. For example, software assistants
have been developed for randomized patrol planning for the Los Angeles
International Airport police, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the United
States Transportation Security Administration. Also game theory has been
utilized for decentralized control, operation and management of future
generation electricity.

While there has been significant progress, there still exist many major
challenges facing the design of effective approaches to deal with the
difficulties in security, health and sustainability. Addressing these challenges
requires collaboration from different communities including artificial
intelligence, game theory, operations research, social science, and psychology.
This symposium is structured to encourage a lively exchange of ideas between
members from these communities.


Topics of Interest:
Game theory foundations
Algorithms for scaling to very large games
Human factors and intelligent user interfaces
Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization
Risk analysis
Decision making under uncertainty
Multi-agent simulation
Software development
Modeling and Evaluation
Distributed control in energy systems

Submission Requirements:
Full papers (8 pages maximum) on completed original work and short papers (4
pages maximum) on ongoing work or descriptions of problems and proposed
approaches/solutions are invited. We also welcome survey papers and demos of
practical systems. Submit papers in AAAI-style via Easychair. Note that
according to AAAI publication policy, papers presented in the symposium are
allowed to be submitted later to a conference/journal.


Important Dates:
October 7, 2011 - Submissions due
November 4, 2011 - Acceptance/rejection notices sent with instructions
for final copies of accepted papers
January 20, 2012 - Final papers due
February 17, 2012 - Invited participants registration deadline
March 2, 2012 - Final (open) registration deadline
March 26 to 28, 2012 - Symposium at Stanford University, California.


Invited Speakers (Tentative list):
Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)


Organizing Committee:
Bo An (University of Southern California)
Manish Jain (University of Southern California)
Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia Vancouver)
Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton)
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)


Technical Program Committee (Tentative list) :
Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano)
Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton)
Rahul Jain (University of Southern California)
Albert Xin Jiang (University of British Columbia)
Richard John (University of Southern California)
Sachin Kamboj (University of Delaware)
Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso)
Dmytro Korzhyk (Duke Univeristy)
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California)
Jun-Young Kwak (University of Southern California)
Josh Letchford (Duke University)
Raz Lin (Bar-Ilan University)
Rajiv Maheswaran (University of Southern California)
James Pita (University of Southern California)
Valentin Robu (University of Southampton)
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton)
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)
Neeraj Sood (University of Southern California)
Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University)
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Sandia National Laboratories)
Rong Yang (University of Southern California)
Martin Zinkevich (Yahoo! Inc)


For more information and submission instructions, please see the symposium
homepage: http://teamcore.usc.edu/GT-Symposium.htm



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Bo AN
Postdoctoral Research Associate
TEAMCORE Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California

http://teamcore.usc.edu/people/boa