[agents] Explore 2014 -- Extended Deadline

[Nick Mattei]

Dear all,

The submission deadline of Explore 2014 has been pushed back to Feb. 10 to match the majority of workshops at AAMAS 2014.  The updated call is below — please submit your papers, encourage other to submit as well, and pass the update on to those who may be interested.

Apologies for multiple postings.

Thanks,
Nick, Nina, Brent, and Toby

**** Call for Papers ****

1st Workshop on Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social
Choice (Explore 2014)

** Please note the extended deadline date of Feb. 10, 2014 **

To be held at the 13th Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems.

May 5-6, 2014. Paris, France.


http://www.preflib.org/beyond2014/


Computational Social Choice (ComSoc) is a rapidly developing field at the
intersection of computer science, economics, social choice, and political
science. Groups across multiple disciplines have moved quickly to
identify, model, and study, from multiple perspectives, group decisions and
preference aggregation. While the surge of research in this area has
created dramatic benefits in the areas of market matchings, recommendation
systems, and preference aggregation, much of the community remains focused
on worst case assumptions.


As an emerging and somewhat divergent field of inquiry we believe that a
workshop would be an ideal format to bring together researchers and
practitioners to promote discussion and cross collaboration between the
various fields. This workshop will be of interest to all researchers in the
ComSoc community who are looking to the future of the research area.
Additionally, members of the Recommender Systems, Preference Handling,
Economics, and Social Choice communities should be interested in some of
the practical ramifications of moving beyond worst case analysis in
preference aggregation problems.


We encourage papers related to:


Algorithms

Empirical studies

Average case analysis

Identification of tractable sub-cases

Fixed parameter complexity analysis

Benchmarking analysis

Approximation results and heuristics

And other practical or theoretical studies related to relaxing worst case
assumptions in Computational Social Choice.



Program Notes

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The workshop will include two mini-tutorials (1 hour each). The first will
be from Joerg Rothe, an introduction to parameterized complexity and its
use for problems in computational social choice. Nicholas Mattei will
provide the second, discussing PrefLib and other methods for empirical
experiments in computational social choice.



Important Dates

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Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2014

Author Notification: March 1, 2014

Workshop: May 5-6, 2014



Submission Instructions

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Submissions will be handled by EasyChair, the site is available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scbwc2013

Papers should be in AAMAS format, allowing 8 pages of text plus 1 page for
references.



Travel and Attendance Information

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The workshop will be held in conjunction with AAMAS 2014 in Paris France.
Please see the AAMAS website for more information regarding registration,
travel, and accommodations: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr .


We hope to see you there.

--Nicholas Mattei, Nina Narodytska, K. Brent Venable, and Toby Walsh  

--  
Nick Mattei
Researcher
NICTA and UNSW
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