[agents] [Mycolleagues] CFP Sixth International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development (CARE) 2015

[Fernando Koch]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth International Workshop on
Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development (CARE) 2015

** CARE for Social Apps and Ubiquitous Computing **

http://care-workshops.org/care2015
Istanbul, Turkey, May 4th, 2015
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The Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development, CARE for Social Apps and Ubiquitous Computing, will held in conjunction with the International Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015)

Important Dates
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Deadline submission: February 11th, 2015 
Notification of Acceptance: February 22nd, 2015
Workshop: Monday May 4th, 2015

Workshop Organisers
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Dr Fernando Koch, SAMSUNG Research Institute, Brazil (fkoch at acm.org)
Dr. Christian Guttmann, UNSW, Australia & IVBAR, Sweden & Karolinska Institute, Sweden (christian.guttmann at gmail.com)

Summary
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"CARE for Social Apps and Ubiquitous Computing" aims to discuss computational models of innovative social computing. Social Apps aim to promote social connectedness, user friendliness through natural interfaces, contextualisation, personalisation, and the ideal of invisible computing.
We seek contributions of members in the industry and applied research in academia. The contributions shall apply AI and agent technology, including distributed AI, situatedness, local interaction, user profiling, social simulation, and others. The application domains include (not an exhaustive list): smart education, urban intelligence, emergency scenarios, continuous healthcare, coordination of large events, intelligent transportation, and others.
The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from senior agent researchers.

Previous workshop proceedings have been published by Springer as LNCS and CCIS. We intend to repeat this tradition from the fine contributions in this workshop.

Research Questions
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CARE is of interest to an academic and industrial research community that uses and extends AI and multi-agent systems. Topics of interest include with no limitation:
- How to apply agents for the next generation Social Apps and Ubiquitous computing scenarios, including Ambient Intelligence, Urban Intelligence, Regulation of Social Behaviour, Collaborative Tasks, and others?
- How to build a model of the features of individuals and groups in Social Apps environments?
- How to construct agent-based models equipped to better perform in Social Apps environment?
- How to construct agent-based models of social behaviour, aiming to understand, model, and influence complex behaviour, group behaviour, and the impact of micro-macro actions upon the system?
- How can we make team members follow agreed procedures (Incentives? Or more fundamental, by designing a new market?)
- How to build an effective monitoring-recognition-intervention framework in Social Apps?
- How can we support/guide collaborative teams. How can we offer flexibility in how teams execute plans?
- How can we make team members follow agreed procedures? Incentives? Or more fundamental, by designing a new market?
- How to enable agents to form and follow joint agreements, guidelines and contracts in complex organisational and market driven domains (agreement adherence)?
- How can adherence and variation be achieved under uncertain and incomplete information (comprehensive formation/maintenance framework)?
- How to enable an effective communication infrastructure for collaborative care (possibly including humans and agents)?
- How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system which is further influenced by the organisational context under which the collaboration takes place?

Submission and Publication
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Submission is done electronically at Easychair: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2015. 

Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as a PDF file. Instructions and templates can be found at: www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

CARE 2015 seeks three types of submissions:
- Full paper of 8-12 pages.
- Short paper of 4-6 pages (such as position and early result papers) are welcome with the option of extending it to a full paper for the post-proceedings.
- Demo paper of 4-6 pages describing a demonstration. This work will then be presented in the demo session of the workshop.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by, at least, three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.





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