[agents] CFP: First International Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models (HAIDM) at AAMAS 2012, Valencia

[Sarvapali DR Ramchurn]

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                                    CFP: First International Workshop on 

                                  Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models

	                                        takes place in conjunction with
 
			                                 AAMAS 2012
		                                    	4th-5th of June,
			                               Valencia, Spain.

			   https://sites.google.com/site/humanagentsystems/
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As the boundaries of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems continue to expand, there is an increasing need for agents to interact with humans.  In fact, the field of multi-agent systems has matured from conceptual models to applications within the real-world (e.g., Energy and sustainability, disaster management, or health care).  One significant challenge that arises when transitioning these conceptual models to applications is addressing the inevitable human interaction.  To this end, this workshop examines major challenges at the intersection of human-agent systems.  

The workshop will be divided into two key tracks in order to reflect the main research directions taken in the community, namely Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) and Modeling Agent Systems with Humans (MASH). While the former is takes a human-centric view of human-agent systems and focuses on the design of human-agent coordination mechanisms, trust issues in human-agent interaction, interaction techniques, and human activity recognition, the latter is concerned with finding better models of human behavior in a variety of settings so that autonomous and multi-agent systems can appropriately interact with human agents (e.g., agent-human negotiation strategies or health care agents encouraging physical therapy for a variety of recovering patients).  Hence, this workshop aims to establish a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in designing and modeling human-agent interaction in different domains.


The workshop will include an invited talk by Prof. Milind Tambe.


Topics Covered
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Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) Track:

- Flexible autonomy – how should the delegation of tasks to agents be performed such that the
 right degree of autonomy be given to individual agents or teams of such agents to optimise the performance of tasks by a human controller or teams of humans interacting with (teams of) agents.
- Trust between humans and agents – when humans delegate tasks to agents or vice-versa, they need to be able to capture the uncertainty in the other party being able to correctly complete tasks. Such uncertainty may be modelled using  past interactions (trust) or information gathered from other agents (reputation).
- Presentation and interaction techniques – to allow users  to understand the actions of large collections of agents as they reason and act on behalf of users.
- Human activity recognition – to recognise human activity to allow agents to reason about human interaction so they might exploit this understanding to augment and support the action of users.


Modelling Agent Systems with Humans (MASH) Track:

- Relationships between human behavior models and their assumptions
- Comparison of human behavior models
- Comparison of approaches in applying models of human behavior (e.g., bounded rational or psychological models)
- Application of human behavior models
- Cooperative and competitive agent-human systems
- Behavioral game theory
- Techniques for learning human behavior (e.g., machine learning, crowdsourcing, and human computation)
- Enhanced models of human behavior and theory of human behavior
- Evaluation techniques for models of human behavior
- Techniques for model selection or augmenting agent learning through human modeling
- Theoretical and empirical results
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for evaluating agent-human interactions


Important dates
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- February 28, 2012 - Submission deadline.
- March 27, 2012  - Notification of acceptance.
- April 10, 2012 - Camera-ready copy due.


Submission Instructions
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Submissions should conform to the LNCS Springer format,  Authors are encouraged to use the style file found here  or see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for more details.

Submissions may be of two types:

Long papers: These are full-length research papers detailing work in progress or work that could potentially be published at a major conference. These should not be more than *16* pages long (excluding appendices and assuming the LNCS format above).

Short papers: These are position papers or demo papers that describe either a project on human-agent systems, an application that has not yet been evaluated, or initial work. These should not be more than *8* pages long (excluding appendices and assuming the LNCS format above).

Authors can submit their papers through the HAIDM 2012 Easychair submission site.

You will be asked which track (MASH or  HAI) you wish your paper to be considered in. 



Review Process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.


Organising Committee
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- Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Rajiv Maheswaran, University of Southern California, USA
- James Pita, University of Southern California, USA
- Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK
- Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK
- Avi Rosenfeld, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
- Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Programme Committee
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TBA