[agents] COMSOC-2016: First Call for Papers

[Umberto Grandi]

[Apologies for cross posting]

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                             First Call for Papers

Sixth International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
                               (COMSOC-2016)
                   Toulouse, France, June 22--24, 2016

                Webpage: www.irit.fr/COMSOC-2016 
<http://www.irit.fr/COMSOC-2016>
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MISSION
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Computational social choice is a rapidly growing discipline at the
interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is
concerned with the application of computational techniques to the
study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of social
choice paradigms into computing. The aim of the workshop is to bring
together different communities: computer scientists interested in
computational issues in social choice; people working in artificial
intelligence and multiagent systems who are using ideas from social
choice to organize societies of artificial software agents; logicians
interested in the logic-based specification and analysis of social
procedures; computer scientists analyzing algorithmic
properties of social phenomena; and last but not least, people coming
from social choice theory itself: economists, mathematicians and
computer scientists.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Invited speakers will include Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University and
Institute for Global Studies, Paris) and Éva Tardos (Cornell
University). The workshop will be preceded by the "COST action IC-1205
Industry Day", with free registration for COMSOC attendants, featuring
invited speakers from the industry and political sector.

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submissions of papers describing original or recently published work
on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to, the intersection of
computational questions concerning:

  - Algorithms (complexity, optimization, approximation...)
  - Learning and sampling
  - Combinatorial domains
  - Knowledge representation
  - Uncertainty
  - Logic
  - Distributed approaches and communication
  - Simulation

with areas such as:

  - Voting:
    o Voting rules
    o Tournament solutions
    o Manipulation, control, and bribery
    o Preferences
    o Equilibria
  - Fair division:
    o Resource allocation
    o Cake cutting
    o Indivisible goods
  - Coalition formation:
    o Matching
    o Hedonic games
    o Weighted voting games
  - Related topics like:
    o Judgement aggregation
    o Axiomatizations of Internet systems
    o Group recommendation
    o Software for collective decision making

Papers will have to be submitted electronically via Easychair. All
submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted
papers will be collected in informal workshop notes.

COMSOC-2016 will also include a poster session. Posters will be
selected based on abstracts, which can be sent by email to an
address that will be announced on the workshop webpage.

Please contact either one of the program chairs in case of any
questions:

o Umberto Grandi (umberto.grandi at irit.fr <mailto:umberto.grandi at irit.fr>)
o Jeff Rosenschein (jeff at cs.huji.ac.il <mailto:jeff at cs.huji.ac.il>)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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o Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2016
o Notification of authors: April 25, 2012
o COST IC1205 Industry Day: June 21, 2016
o Workshop dates: June 22-24, 2016

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Stephane Airiau, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Yonatan Aumann, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Haris Aziz, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Dorothea Baumeister, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter Biro, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Sylvain Bouveret, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
Markus Brill, Duke University
Felix Brandt, TU Munich, Germany
Ioannis Caragiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Britta Dorn, Tubingen Universitat, Germany
Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, UK
Piotr Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Felix Fischer, University of Cambridge, UK
Paul Goldberg, University of Oxford, UK
Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA
Jerome Lang, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Jean Francois Laslier, Paris School of Economics, France
Michel Le Breton, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Nick Mattei, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Nicolas Maudet, Université Paris 6 Marie-Curie, France
Reshef Meir, Harvard, USA
Vincent Merlin, Caen University, France
Nina Narodytska, Samsung Research, USA
Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
Jorg Rothe, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
Arkadii Slinko, Auckland University, New Zealand
Kristen Brent Venable, Tulane University and IHMC, USA
Toby Walsh, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
William Zwicker, Union College, USA

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