[agents] COMSOC-2016: one week left before the deadline

[UMBERTO GRANDI]

[Apologies for cross posting]

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                        Final Call for Papers

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

                       www.irit.fr/COMSOC-2016

       **Paper submission: www.irit.fr/COMSOC-2016/submission.shtml**

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    *Deadline for paper submission: 15 March 2016
    *Program committee members are encouraged to submit
    *No formal proceedings, authors retain copyright
    *Registration page soon open (registration fees 50 EUR)

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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 political scientists.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Invited speakers are Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University and
Institute for Global Studies, Paris), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College and
Koç University) 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: Craig Boutilier
from University of Toronto and Google, Andreas Nitsche from Interaktive
Demokratie, Elliott Peranson from National Matching Services Inc.,
and Jacques Traoré from Orange Labs.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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o Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2016 (midnight, anywhere on Earth)
o Notification of authors: April 25, 2012
o Submission deadline for posters: April 28, 2016
o COST IC1205 Industry Day: June 21, 2016
o Workshop dates: June 22-24, 2016


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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. To accomodate the publishing needs of
different scientific communities, we stress that authors will retain the
copyright of their papers and that submitting to COMSOC-2016 should not
preclude publication of the same material in a journal or in a conference
with formal proceedings. Submission is restricted by the rule that each
accepted paper should be presented by a different author.

COMSOC-2016 will also include a poster session. Posters will be selected
based on abstracts. Unlike regular papers, a single author is allowed to
present multiple posters.

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

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


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TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
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A list of hotels and a guide to public transportation are available on
the conference website.

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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
Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada
Sylvain Bouveret, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
Markus Brill, Duke University
Felix Brandt, TU Munich, Germany
Ioannis Caragiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Britta Dorn, Universitat Tubingen, 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
Annick Laruelle, Ikerbasque - Bilbao, Spain
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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