[agents] CFP CARE at AAMAS17: CARE for Millennium Goals

[Andrew Koster]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 9th International Workshop on Collaborative Agents Research & Development (CARE) -- CARE for the Millennium Goals
In conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2017)

http://www.care-workshops.org/care2017

** IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: February 7, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017 
Camera-ready: March 17, 2017 
Workshop: May 8/9, 2017

** SUMMARY
“CARE for the Millennium Goals” aims to discuss computational models, social computing, and agent-based solutions applied to practical solutions that address topics related to the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals are eight global goals set by the UN to reduce extreme poverty. The goals are to:
• Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
• Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
• Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
• Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
• Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

This workshop will focus on these socially relevant topics and how Collaborative Agents can contribute to achieving the Millennium Goals. The aim is to develop a research agenda addressing the gap between R&D development and practical applications to social issues. The discussion will revolve around questions like:  How can we create computational models, representations, algorithms and protocols to enable the next generation of intelligent collaborative technologies? How to combine currently disruptive technologies to create the next generation of solutions for challenging scenarios in social-centred applications?

The half day event will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology.
We expected to conclude with a discussions around a proposed research agenda to advance the field of collaborative technology and social computing, to foment the development of new technologies, support new business, and contribute to the academia-industry relationship.

** SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Submission is done electronically through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2017 

Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as a PDF file. 

We seek three types of submissions:
- Full paper of 8-12 pages.
- Short paper of 4 pages, such as position and early result papers. 
- Demo paper of 4 pages describing a demonstration.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by, at least, three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

We plan to publish selected papers through Springer, possibly as Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), as has been the case with previous CARE workshops.

** ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Dr. Tiago Primo, Samsung Research Institute, Brazil 
Dr. Andrew Koster, IIIA-CSIC & Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain 
Dr. Fernando Koch, The University of Melbourne, Australia 
Dr. Christian Guttmann, Karolinska Institutem, IVBAR Sweden & UNSW, Australia