[agents] CFP: First International Worskhop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models

[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 at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haidm2012

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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Bo An - University of Southern California, USA
Ben Bedwell - University of Nottingham, UK
Enrico Costanza - University of Southampton, UK
Joel Fischer - University of Nottingham, UK
Greg Hines -  University of Southampton, UK
Catolijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Christopher Kiekintveld - University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Dmytro Korzhyk - Duke University, USA
Sarit Kraus - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Mike Lewis  - University of Pittsburg, USA
Nadia Pantidi - University of Nottingham, UK
Alex Rogers -  University of Southampton, UK
Rong Yang - University of Southern California, USA