[agents] Human-Agent Interaction workshop @IJCAI -- Deadline extension

[Sarvapali Ramchurn]

Due to popular demand, we are extending the deadline of the HAIDM workshop to the 30th of April.


Note:

Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, will be giving the keynote at HAIDM 2016.

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Final Call for Papers

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

   co-located with IJCAI 2016

       (July 11 2016 - Deadline 30th 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.

Keynote
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The invited speaker is: Eric Horvitz

Eric Horvitz is the Director of the Microsoft Research lab at Redmond. Pursuing research on principles of machine intelligence and on leveraging the complementarities of human and machine reasoning. Passionate about harnessing the latest computing advances to provide valuable services. He is currently Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as director of Microsoft Research's main Redmond lab. He has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy in 2013 and ACM Fellow 2014 For contributions to artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.


Important Dates
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Submission: 30th April 2016

Acceptance Notification: 21st May (TBC)

Workshop takes place: 11th July

Submission Procedure
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***** The submission link is  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haidm168 ****

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).


Programme Committee (more confirmed)
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Ofra Amir, Harvard University
Inon Zuckerman, Ariel University
Roni Stern, Ben-Gurion University
Bo An Nanyang, Technological University
David Griol, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
George Kampis, Eotvos University
Matteo Venanzi, University of Southampton
Deborah Richards, Macquarie University
Daniele Morandi, ThinkInside
Nader Hanna, Macquarie University
Jose M. Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Agnes Gruenerbl, DFKI
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University
Daniela Dybalova, The University of Nottingham
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento
Amos Azaria, Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Sklar, King’s College London
Arielle Richardson, Jerusalem College of Technology
Michael Rovatsos, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida

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

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