[agents] Third Intl. Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models (HAIDM 2014) @ AAMAS

[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 foragents 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 thedesign 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 systemsapplications 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 byresearchers, 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

- Agents as social actors

- Reasoning about social roles and social reality

- 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.

- 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

-  Smart society applications consisting of heterogeneous networks of agents and humansthat cooperate/coordinate to solve problems of scale

- Real-world applications of Human-Agent Interaction such  (e.g., energy management, consumption, transportation, healthcare, and disaster response).



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



Multiple Submission Policy

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The HAIDM organisers have decided that no formal proceedings of the workshop will be published. As such, we are intentionally allowing multiple submissions to encourage papers that have been accepted within quality venues (e.g. the AAMAS main and virtual agent tracks).  Nonetheless, we hope to accept 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, 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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Bo

An

Nanyang Technological University

Ben

Bedwell

University of Nottingham

Ladislau

Boloni

University of Central Florida

Frank

Dignum

Utrecht University

Virginia

Dignum

TU Delft

Michael

Goodrich

Brigham Young University

Piyush

Khandelwal

University of Texas at Austin

Sarit

Kraus

Bar Ilan University

Paul

Lukowicz

DFKI

Vincenzo (Enzo)

Maltese

University of Trento

Thanh

Nguyen

University of Southern California

Ana

Paiva

INESC

Rui

Prada

Instituto Superior Técnico-UTL and INESC-ID

Subramanian

Ramamoorthy

University of Edinburgh

Michael

Rovatsos

University of Edinburgh

Elizabeth

Sklar

University of Liverpool

Sebastian

Stein

University of Southampton

Matthew E.

Taylor

Washington State University

Greg

Trafton

Naval Research Lab

Matteo

Venanzi

University of Southampton

Rong

Yang

University of Southern California

Mikkel                     Kjaergaard          Southern Denmark University