[agents] CFP: Human-Agent Interaction Design & Models Workshop

[Sarvapali Ramchurn]

NOTE: 18th April Deadline.

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Second Call for Papers

Fifth International Workshop on
    Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models (HAIDM 2016)

   co-located with IJCAI 2016

       (July 11 2016 - Deadline 18th April)
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Workshop Goals
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As the boundaries of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems continue to expand, there
is an increasing need for agents to interact with humans.  In fact, the field of
multi-agent systems has matured from conceptual models to applications within the
real-world (e.g., energy and sustainability, disaster management, or health care).  One
significant challenge that arises when transitioning these conceptual models to
applications is addressing the inevitable human interaction.  To this end, this workshop
examines major challenges at the intersection of human-agent systems. In particular, we
focus on the challenges of designing and modelling human-agent interaction. While the
former takes a human-centric view of human-agent systems and focuses on the design of
human-agent coordination mechanisms, trust issues in human-agent interaction, interaction
techniques, and human activity recognition, the latter is concerned with finding better
models of human behaviour in a variety of settings so that autonomous and multi-agent
systems can appropriately interact with human agents (e.g., agent-human negotiation
strategies or health care agents encouraging physical therapy for a variety of recovering
patients).

Topics Covered
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• Models of Human Behaviour: this may include studies drawing the behavioural game
theory literature or solutions that attempt to model human response in collaborative and
competitive relationships with agents/robots.
• Systems of Humans and Agents (incl. Robots): systems that interleave humans and
agents in flexible relationships and teams. This may include interactions with autonomous
vehicles, robots, and software agents in both cooperative and strategic settings.
• Crowdsourcing: models, algorithms and techniques for effective problem solving in
crowdsourcing including social incentives, micro-payments for micro-tasks, learning about
workers and tasks, task allocation, collaborative problem solving and novel applications.
The focus should be on combining machine and human intelligence in crowdsourcing.

We welcome  contributions that cover:

• Theoretical results,
• Methodological contributions,
• Quantitative and qualitative studies of human-agent interaction (or agent-supported
         human activities) in the lab, online and in real-world settings
The HAIDM workshop, now in its fifth  year, brings together a vibrant community of
researchers interested in modeling human behavior as well as improving agent designs for
interacting with people. This is the first instalment of HAIDM at IJCAI.

Important Dates
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Submission: 18th April 2016

Acceptance Notification: 18th May (TBC)

Workshop takes place: 11th July

Submission Procedure
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Submissions should conform to the LNCS Springer format,  Authors are encouraged to use the
style file found here  or see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0for more details.

Submissions may be of two types:

• Long papers: These are full-length research papers detailing work in progress or
work that could potentially be published at a major conference. These should not be more
than *16* pages long in the LNCS format above.
• Short papers: These are position papers or demo papers that describe either a
project on human-agent systems, an application that has not yet been evaluated, or initial
work. These should not be more than *8* pages long (excluding appendices and assuming the
LNCS format above).
The submission link will be advertised here in due course.

Programme Committee
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Awaiting final confirmations.

Organising Committee
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Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK
Avi Rosenfeld, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
Kobi Gal, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research (Redmond), USA