[agents] SR 2014: Preliminary call for contributions

Fri Oct 4 16:31:30 EDT 2013

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Second International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning
Grenoble, France, 5-6 April 2014

http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2014/workshops
http://www.strategicreasoning.net

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OBJECTIVES

Strategic reasoning is one of the most active research area in
multi-agent system domain. The literature in this field is extensive and
provides a plethora of logics for modeling strategic ability.
Theoretical results are now being used in many exciting fields,
including software tools for information system security, robot teams
with sophisticated adaptive strategies, and automatic players capable of
beating expert human adversary, just to cite a few. All these examples
share the challenge of developing novel theories and tools for agent
strategies that take into account the likely behavior of adversaries.

The SR workshop aims to bring together researchers working on different
aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a
theoretical and a practical point of view.

LIST OF TOPICS

The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to:

- Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities
- Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis
- Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems
- Strategic reasoning in formal verification
- Automata theory for strategy synthesis
- Strategic reasoning under perfect and imperfect information
- Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning
- Robust planning and optimization in multi-agent systems
- Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems
- Quantitative aspects in strategic reasonings

CO-LOCATED EVENT

SR 2014 is a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2014 which will be held on
April 5th-13th, 2014.

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria
- Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool
- Alessio R. Lomuscio, Imperial College London
- Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers should not exceed five pages using EPTCS format
(http://style.eptcs.org). If necessary, the paper may be supplemented
with a clearly marked appendix, which will be consulted at the
discretion of the programme committee.

Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr2014)

Two types of submission are invited:

- Papers reporting on novel research, and
- Expository papers reporting on published work.

Each submission should be clearly identified as belonging to one
category or the other. In both categories, strong preference will be
given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary
audience, and all papers should be written so that they are accessible
to such an audience.

Novel research abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of
novel research publications. In particular, they should

1) contain enough information to enable the program committee to
identify the main contribution of the work;

2) explain the significance of the work its novelty and its practical or
theoretical implications; and

3) include comparisons with and references to relevant literature.

Expository abstracts, which will be held to similarly high standards,
may survey an area or report on a more specific previously published
work; the submission should make clear the relevance to the strategic
reasoning audience. Papers accepted for presentation (in both
categories) will be collected as an EPTCS volume. Submissions from PC
members are also allowed. Note that, as we accept short papers, extended
versions of the accepted works could be also submitted elsewhere.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission:     December 16, 2013
Contribution submission: December 23, 2013
Acceptance notification: January  30, 2014
Camera-ready version:    February 10, 2014
SR 2014 Workshop:        April   5-6, 2014

PROCEEDINGS

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume of the Electronic
Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).
An extended and revised version of the best workshop contributions of
last edition have been selected for a special issue to appear on the
international journal of Information and Computation.
For the current edition, we plan to do the same and anyway to have a
special issue on one of the major international journals of the area.

GENERAL CHAIR

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, Texas, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Fabio Mogavero, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Aniello Murano, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
- Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
- Krishnendu Chatterjee, IST Austria, Austria
- Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- François Laroussinie, Universitè Paris Diderot, France
- Christof Loding, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Emiliano Lorini, Universitè Paul Sabatier, France
- John-Jules C. Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Eric Pacuit, University of Maryland, United States
- Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Sophie Pinchinat, University of Rennes, France
- Jean-Francois Raskin, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Francesca Rossi, Università di Padova, Italy
- Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Fabio Mogavero, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
- Aniello Murano, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
- Loredana Sorrentino, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy

INFO

For more information about the workshop, you may take a look
at the list of ETAPS 2014 workshops
(http://www.etaps.org/2014/workshops). The preliminary SR 2014 website
is available at http://www.strategicreasoning.net . All the relevant
informations should be posted there in a few days.

-- 
Dr. habil. Wojciech Jamroga
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
University of Luxembourg
http://icr.uni.lu/wjamroga/