[agents] CFP for AAAI Spring Symposium 2015 on Applied Computational Game Theory

[Fei Fang]

Dear friends,

Here is the CFP for AAAI Spring Symposium 2015 on Applied Computational
Game Theory. We have extended the deadline to October 17th, 2014. It would
be great if you can help circulate it to your group and other groups
working on related topics. The submissions to this symposium will NOT be
published and we also encourage submissions that are under review at other
venues.



*AAAI Spring Symposium 2015on Applied Computational Game Theory*


Game theory's popularity continues to increase in a whole variety of
disciplines, e.g. economics, biology, political science, computer science,
electrical engineering, business, law, public policy, and many others. The
focus of this symposium is to bring together the community working on *Applied
Computational Game Theory* motivated by any of these domains.


A variety of very large-scale real-world problems can be cast in
game-theoretic contexts. For example, software assistants based on game
theory have been developed for generating randomized patrol plans to
protect computer networks, ports, airports, flights and transit systems.
Also game theory has been utilized for disaster management, medical record
inspections and mechanism design for markets. Further, interdisciplinary
work of game theory and machine learning has been applied to domains such
as spam detection, fishery protection and poaching prevention where the
repeated interactions between players are involved. Another area with
growing interest is computer poker, where the presence of imperfect
information in the game raises important new challenges.


While there has been significant progress, there still exist many major
challenges facing the design of effective approaches to deal with the
difficulties in these real-world domains. These may include building
predictive behavioral models for the players, dealing with uncertainties in
games, scaling up for large games, learning in repeated games. Addressing
these challenges requires collaboration from different communities
including artificial intelligence, game theory, operations research, social
science, and psychology. This symposium is structured to encourage a lively
exchange of ideas between members from these communities. We encourage all
researchers working towards applying computational game theory for
real-world problems to submit to the symposium.


*Topics*

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

·  Real-world applications of game theory

·  Game theory foundations

·  Algorithms for scaling to very large games

·  Behavioral game theory

·  Modeling uncertainty in game theoretic applications

·  Learning in games

·  Imperfect information in games and computer poker

·  Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization

·  Risk Analysis

·  Applied Mechanism Design for Markets, Auctions


*Venue Information*

AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium Series is to be held March 23–25, 2015, at
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please
refer to the AAAI Symposium website:
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss15.php


*Format*

The symposium will consist of welcome session, invited talks, paper
presentations, and a panel discussion.


*Submission*

Submissions should be made through the online submission system
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acgtaaaiss14> (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaaiss15acgt) by 11:59 PM PST, *October
17th, 2014*. All submissions should be made in AAAI format
<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php>, and should be up to 8
pages in length, including figures and references. Authors shall be
notified by *November 7th, 2014*.


*Note to authors and reviewers*: *The submissions to this symposium will
not be published.* Instead, a set of working notes may be used during the
symposium and they will not be distributed beyond the symposium without
permission. As such, some of the submissions may also be under review at
other venues. The submissions to this symposium are only for review for
oral presentation, and with an explicit understanding that no conflict is
posed. If the authors or reviewers believe that there is a conflict, please
let the organizers know.


*Chair and Main Contact*

Fei Fang

University of Southern California

Email: feifang at usc.edu


*Organizing Committee*

·  Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso,
cdkiekintveld at utep.edu)

·  Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Vanderbilt University, eug.vorobey at gmail.com)

·  Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, pstone at cs.utexas.edu)

·  Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, boan at ntu.edu.sg)

·  Manish Jain (Armorway, manish.jain.85 at gmail.com)

·  Fei Fang (University of Southern California, feifang at usc.edu)

·  Albert Xin Jiang (Trinity University, albertjiang at gmail.com)


*Symposium Website*

http://teamcore.usc.edu/people/feifang/AAAISS15.htm


Thank you & Regards
Fei Fang
University of Southern California