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

[Amit Chopra]

 First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing

Co-located with AAMAS 2014 <http://aamas2014.lip6.fr> May 5-9, 2014, Paris,
France

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

*Tutorial*
This year AAMAS has combined workshops and tutorials. The tutorial in this
workshop will be conducted by *Munindar Singh*. Munindar is a full
professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.

The tutorial will provide a concise overview of social computing understood
from the perspective of multiagent systems. It will describe how social
computing can be characterized via the dynamics of social relationships
among social entities, such as people. Specifically, this tutorial will
describe how (1) how interactions among social entities can be incorporated
into computations as a basis for solving certain families of problems and
(2) social relationships and individual preferences can be modeled,
represented, and reasoned about in multiagent terms. Multiagent themes of
interest will include interaction-orientation, markets, gamification,
organizations, normative concepts, argumentation, social interpretation of
information, and sociotechnical systems. Throughout, this tutorial will use
examples drawn from conventional social computing applications
demonstrating their key paradigms mapped to multiagent concepts.

*Important Dates*

   - Paper submission: January 22, 2014
   - Notification: February 19, 2014
   - Camera-ready due: March 5, 2014

*Organizing Committee*

   - Amit K. Chopra, Lancaster University a.chopra1 at lancaster.ac.uk
   - Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University verhagen at dsv.su.se

*Program Committee*

   - Tina Balke, University of Surrey
   - Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino
   - Pablo Noriega, IIIA, Spain
   - Alexander Artikis, NCSR "Demokritos"
   - Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna
   - Corinna Elsenbroich, University of Surrey
   - Emiliano Lorini, IRIT, France
   - Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong
   - Frank Dignum, Utrecht University
   - Viviana Patti, University of Torino
   - Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen
   - Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah, North Carolina State University
   - Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University
   - Raian Ali, Bournemouth University
   - Liliana Pasquale, Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research
   Centre
   - Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino
   - Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University
   - Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
   - Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen
   - Elisa Marengo, University of Bologna

*Submission Instructions*

Authors should submit original papers in PDF through
Easychair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scaamas2014>.
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.