[agents] CoopMAS at AAMAS -- extended deadline March 15th

[Stéphane Airiau]

The Third Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems 
(CoopMAS-2012)
-- Extended deadline: March 15th --

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~stephane/coopmas12/

Workshop co-located with AAMAS-2012
Valencia, Spain
June 4th, 2012

**Key dates**

  * Submission of contributions: March 15th 2012
  * Acceptance notification: March 27th 2012
  * Workshop: June 4th or 5th, 2012

*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=coopmas2012

*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 systems.

*Program Committee*
Confirmed PC members
  * Haris Aziz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
  * Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
  * Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
  * Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
  * Paul Harrenstein (Technische Universität München, Germany)
  * Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  * Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
  * Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)

*Workshop Organizers*

  * Stéphane Airiau (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  * Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, Cambridge United Kingdom)
  * Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  * Lirong Xia (CRCS, Harvard University, United States)