[agents] Call for Participation: 6th International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- Research & Development (CARE)

[Christian Guttmann]

Apologies for cross posting

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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 be held in conjunction with the
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS 2015)

Important Dates
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Workshop: Monday May 4th, 2015 (14:00-18:30)

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 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 with selected contributions
from 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?