[agents] CFP: AAMAS Workshop on Multiagent Foundations on Social Computing

[Amit Chopra]

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First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing
     http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/sc-aamas-2014/

     Co-located with AAMAS 2014 (http://aamas2014.lip6.fr)
        May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France
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Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that
facilitate interactions among people and organizations.  Social
computing has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of
research, driven by the wealth of easily available information and the
success of online social networks and social media.  Social computing
applications are characterized by high interactivity among users,
user-generated content, and in cases such as Wikipedia, more open
governance structures.

Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data
analytics and business models.  What is still lacking, however, is a
deeper conceptual understanding of social computing -- e.g., relating
to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design
principles, and platforms.  We invite papers that take an explicitly
multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in
thought-provoking ways.

Topics include but are not limited to:
- Governance
- Security and privacy
- Models of social interaction
- Social expectations and norms
- Social middleware
- Crowdsourcing
- Collective intelligence
- Human computation
- Information models and data analytics
- Social provenance
- Social sensing
- Applications such as healthcare and smart cities
- Participatory decision-making
- Argumentation
- Organizations
- Teamwork

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Important Dates
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- Initial submissions due: January 22, 2014
- Notification: February 19, 2014
- Camera-ready due: March 5, 2014

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Organizing Committee
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Amit K. Chopra, Lancaster University
a.chopra1 at lancaster.ac.uk

Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University
verhagen at dsv.su.se

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Submission Instructions
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Authors should submit original papers in PDF through Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc-aamas-2014. The papers
should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style and be at
most 12 pages in length.

Formal proceedings will be published online as CEUR workshop
proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org).  Authors of papers published in the
proceedings retain the copyright of their material.

A special issue of ACM TOIT on the workshop theme is being planned.
More details to follow.