[agents] Final Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing

[Amit Chopra]

Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing
     http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/chopraak/mfsc-2015/index.html

     Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com/)
        4-8 May, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

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.  The aim of this workshop is to promote
a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing -- e.g.,
relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design
principles, and platforms.  We invite original thought-provoking
papers that take an explicitly multiagent approach in addressing these
gaps. We encourage well-argued position papers and vision papers. We
also invite papers that present novel multiagent abstractions,
methodologies, architecture, and techniques for social computing.

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

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Tutorial
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Presenter: Dr. Alexander Artikis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Title: Real-time reasoning in multi-agent systems

The tutorial will introduce complex event recognition techniques and
apply them to real-time reasoning about contracts and commitments in
very large MAS.

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Important Dates
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- Paper submission: February 10, 2014
- Decision notification: March 10, 2014
- Camera-ready submission: March 19, 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

Didac Busquets, Imperial College London
didac.busquets at imperial.ac.uk

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Submission Instructions
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Authors should submit papers in PDF format through Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfsc15).  The papers should
be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style and should be no
more than 12 pages in length.

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee
members. Details about the committee will become available shortly. No
formal proceedings are planned. Our motivation behind this is to make
this workshop primarily a forum for discussion.