[agents] First CFP - Conflict Resolution in Decision Making (COREDEMA)

[Reyhan Aydogan]

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Call for Papers



COREDEMA - Conflict Resolution in Decision Making (Workshop in PAAMS 2013,
http://www.paams.net/coredema13/)



22nd-24th May 2013, Salamanca, Spain





***We are currently negotiating a special issue with a journal***



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SCOPE



Conflict is an omnipresent phenomenon in human society. It spans from daily
situations like discussing a holiday plan with friends to complex scenarios
like politics and business, and even into the realm of the individual such
as when deciding what to do next (sleep, eat, work, play). Several
disciplines like the social sciences, psychology, economy and biology have
studied the nature of conflict, its consequences, and strategies to
successfully deal with it.



Conflict is a situation in which two or more entities, each with their own
set of preferences, prefer based on that set of preferences a different
non-compatible action. An example is a behaviour based robot trying to
select actions based on different drives such as eating versus sleeping. In
this case, hunger and fatigue are two drives each with their own set of
action preferences, and each of the drives can prefer based on its set of
preferences a different action. Another example is two parties that need to
negotiate a service level agreement, each with their own set of preferences
for different service elements. Also, in this case these sets of
preferences can result in a conflict about which action (bid) has the
highest value and should thus be chosen. Conflict is a critical aspect when
viewed in light of decision making and action selection, as the result of a
conflict eventually surfaces as an action selection problem. Namely,
actions are valued differently for different entities and selecting an
action will therefore favor one but not another entity. In principle this
is not a direct problem for decision making, unless it is important to
eventually keep both entities “happy”, in which case conflict resolution
becomes important.



In this workshop we focus on computational approaches, theoretical, but
specially practical, aimed towards solving conflict. These computational
approaches may be inspired by a wide variety of disciplines such as the
social sciences, psychology, economy, biology, and computer science itself.
In fact, one of the goals of this workshop is allowing researchers from
different disciplines to discuss about their perspectives on conflict
resolution. We particularly emphasize the role of computational models and
applications of conflict resolution in relation to decision making and
action selection. More specifically, submissions should propose, use or
analyze (a) computational model(s) of conflict resolution in relation to
action selection or decision making for:



    - resolving conflict between software entities (inter-agent or
intra-agent)

    - resolving conflict between software entities and humans

    - resolving conflict between humans facilitated by the support of
computational models and tools

    - understanding conflict in general (e.g., inter-agent, intra-agent,
for human or artificial agents)



Topics that could be relevant for the workshop include specially
applications, but also theoretical approaches, based on:



    - Automated Negotiation

    - Argumentation

    - Social Choice

    - Auctions and Combinatorial Auctions

    - Market Mechanisms

    - Coalition & Team Formation

    - Teamwork Models and Distributed Coordination

    - Negotiation Support Systems and Decision Support Systems

    - Preference Modeling and Aggregation

    - Conflict Resolution in Multi-agent Planning

    - Agent/Robot Action Selection

    - Emotion, Trust, and Coping in conflict and preferences



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IMPORTANT DATES



    Paper submission deadline: 17th December, 2012

    Notification date: 28th January, 2013

    Final version submission deadline: 25th February, 2013

    Conference date: 22nd-24th May, 2013



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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS



–  Reyhan Aydogan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

–  Joost Broekens (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

–  Carlos Chesñevar (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)

–  Catholijn M. Jonker ( Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

–  Stella Heras (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

–  Vicente Julián (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

–  Michael Rovatsos (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

–  Victor Sanchez-Anguix (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE



–    Elizabeth Black (King’s College London, United Kingdom)

–    Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

–    Gert Jan Hofstede (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

–    Mark Klein (MIT, USA)

–    Minyi Li (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

–    Ivan Marsa-Maestre (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

–    Eva Onaindia (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

–    Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar (CSIC-IIIA, Spain)

–    Carles Sierra (CSIC-IIIA, Spain)

–    Andreas L. Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

–    Michael Ignaz Schumacher  (University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland, Switzerland*)*

–    Serena Villata - (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)