[agents] Preliminary CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models

[Sarvapali Ramchurn]

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                                                CFP: Third International Workshop on
				
                                           Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models
                                                      http://haidm.wordpress.com/
				
                                                      takes place in conjunction with
				
                                                                   AAMAS 2014
                                           May 5th or 6th 2014 (one full day), Paris France				
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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. In particular, we focus on the challenges of designing and modelling human-agent interaction. While the former 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 behaviour 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).  

This workshop aims to establish a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in designing and modelling human-agent interaction in different domains.


Invited talk: TBA


Topics Covered 
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In designing multi-agent systems applications where such applications involve humans, it is important to consider the key principles by which the interaction between agents and humans will be established. In particular, the technical issues to be addressed by researchers, and which will be the key discussion points, at this workshop include but are not limited to:

- Flexible autonomy 
- Trust between humans and agents 
- Presentation and interaction techniques
- Human activity recognition 
- Modelling human behaviour, especially in mixed human-agent systems
- Comparison of approaches in applying models of human behaviour (e.g., strictly rational, bounded rational or psychological models)
- Enhanced models of human behaviour and theory of human behaviour such as quantal response, prospect theory, and other models of human decision making. - Applications of human behaviour models
- Cooperative and competitive agent-human systems
- Behavioural game theory
- Techniques for learning human behaviour (e.g., machine learning)
- Crowdsourcing: mechanisms to allocate tasks to online crowds including social incentives, micro-payments for micro-tasks within implemented system.
- Citizen science: the use of agent-based techniques (e.g., distributed algorithms to coordinate citizen scientists or to model human behaviour) in order to solve scientific problems better.
- Use of agent-based coordination algorithms to coordinate humans.
- Evaluation techniques for models of human behaviour
- Techniques for model selection or augmenting agent learning through human modelling
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for evaluating agent-human interactions
- Human-Robot Interaction: the design of embodied agents as well as methods for human-robot coordination.
- Coalition formation and optimisation models involving models of agents and humans
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for evaluating agent-human interactions - Quantitative and qualitative studies of human-agent interaction (or agent-supported human activities) in the lab, online and in real-world settings 

Important dates 
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- February 10th, 2014 - Submission deadline.
- March 3, 2014 - Notification of acceptance.
- May 5th or 6th, 2014 -  Workshop takes place.


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 in 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 2014 Easychair
submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haidm2014

Publication Policy
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No formal proceedings of the workshop will be published i.e., papers that have been accepted at other venues can also be submitted at HAIDM  to help bring the community together (e.g. CHI, Ubicomp, Human-Robot Interaction, and AAMAS main and virtual agent tracks).  We will invite the best HAIDM papers for publication as either a Springer Lecture Notes volume or within a special issue of a journal.

Review Process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection
of papers will include: originality, technical quality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.

Organising Committee 
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- Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham, UK 
- Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK 
- Avi Rosenfeld, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
- Long Tran-Thanh, University of Southampton, UK

Programme Committee
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TBA