[agents] Workshop on Future Directions in Computational Social Choice

[Ulle Endriss]

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                    * * * Call for Participation * * *

       WORKSHOP ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL CHOICE

                      Budapest, 21-22 November 2016

                    Please register by 7 November 2016!

            http://econ.core.hu/english/res/FutureCOMSOC.html

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This workshop is organised by COST Action IC1205 on Computational
Social Choice as the final event of this European research network. It
will showcase some of the results obtained during the four years in
which the Action has been active and it will offer a glimpse at future
research directions in the field. The programme will consist of invited
talks, an open poster session, and a rump session. Registration is free
of charge.

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* INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Simina Brânzei (Jerusalem)
* Markus Brill (Oxford)
* László Csató (Budapest)
* Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)
* Andreas Darmann (Graz)
* Ronald de Haan (Vienna)
* Zsuzsanna Jankó (Budapest)
* Svetlana Obraztsova (Jerusalem)
* Jan Christoph Schlegel (Lausanne)
* Piotr Skowron (Oxford)
* Marija Slavkovik (Bergen)
* Balázs Sziklai (Budapest)

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* POSTER SESSION
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All members of the research community are invited to present their work
on computational social choice and closely related topics during the
open poster session, to be held during the first day of the workshop.
To express your interest in presenting a poster, please send the names
of all authors, the title of the poster, and an abstract of at most 300
words to the organisers at comsoc2016budapest at gmail.com no later than
7 November 2016. You will be notified about acceptance within one week.
Space permitting, our intention is to accept all contributions that are
in line with the theme of the workshop.

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* RUMP SESSION
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The second day of the workshop will feature a so-called "rump session",
where any participant interested can give a talk of 5 minutes on a
topic of their choice, such as work in progress, an open problem, or an
idea. Advance registration for the rump session is not possible. There
will be a list to sign up making the rounds on the first day of the
workshop.

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* REGISTRATION
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Registration is free of charge. To register, please send the following
information to comsoc2016budapest at gmail.com by 7 November 2016:

* Name:
* Affiliation:
* Email address:
* Period of stay:
* Dietary restrictions:

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* VENUE
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The workshop will take place in the centre of Budapest, in the main
building of Corvinus University at Fővám tér 8, 1093 Budapest.

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* ORGANISERS
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* Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)
* Péter Biró (Budapest)
* Ulle Endriss (Amsterdam)

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* SPONSORS
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The workshop is organised and partly financed by COST Action IC1205 on
Computational Social Choice (http://www.illc.uva.nl/COST-IC1205/).
Additional support received from the Faculty of Economics at Corvinus
University of Budapest, the Mechanism Design Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for Logic, Language
and Computation at the University of Amsterdam is gratefully
acknowledged.

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-- 
Ulle Endriss         http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam    Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511
Postbus 94242              Fax: +31 (0)20 525 5206
1090 GE Amsterdam (NL)     Email: u.endriss at uva.nl