[agents] CfP for Conflict Resolution in Decision Making Workshop in PAAMS 2013 - deadline extension until January 15th 2013

[Vicente Julian]

Call for Papers

COREDEMA - Conflict Resolution in Decision Making (Workshop in PAAMS 2013, http://www.paams.net/coredema13/)
22nd-24th May 2013, Salamanca, Spain
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SPECIAL ISSUE
Extended versions of selected papers of the COREDEMA 2013 will be published in a Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems (JCR 2011 IF: 1.182).
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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: 15th January, 2013
    Notification date: 10th February, 2013
    Final version submission deadline: 25th February, 2013
    Conference date: 22nd-24th May, 2013
 
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Submissions

They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.

All papers must be formatted according to the CCISSeries Springer template, with a maximum length of 10-12 pages, including figures and references.

The template can be downloaded Here. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.

In order to submit a paper to the COREDEMA 2013 you must register as an author at Conference management system.
 
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)
–    Valentin Robu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)