[agents] 2nd AAMAS Workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG-21)

[Amulya Yadav]

Dear all,

We are organizing a workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG) at
AAMAS 2021. Please consider submitting any accepted AAMAS papers to this
workshop, and of course, any preliminary unpublished work as well. Also,
I'd be grateful if you could circulate this widely among your peers. The
CFP and submission link are below.

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*2nd International Virtual Workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good
(AASG 2021)*

*Website*: https://amulyayadav.github.io/aasg2021/
*Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aasg2021

*Important Dates:*
Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 20th, 2021
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 10th, 2021
Camera Ready Deadline: April 10th, 2021
Workshop Date: May 3rd (or 4th), 2021

*Scope*

Specifically, the AASG workshop serves two purposes. First, the AASG
workshop provides an opportunity to showcase real-world deployments of MAS
research (including COVID-19 applications). More often than not, unexpected
practical challenges emerge when solutions developed in the lab are
deployed in the real world, which makes it challenging to utilize complex
and well thought out computational/modeling advances. Learning about the
challenges faced in these deployments during the workshop will help us
understand lessons of moving from the lab to the real world. Second, the
AASG workshop provides opportunities to showcase MAS systems which
dynamically adapt to changing environments, are robust to errors in
execution and planning, and handle uncertainties of different kinds that
are common in the real world. Addressing these challenges requires
collaboration from different communities including artificial intelligence,
game theory, operations research, social science, and psychology. This
workshop is structured to encourage a lively exchange of ideas between
members from these communities. We encourage submissions to the workshop
from: (i) computer scientists who have used (or are currently using) their
MAS research to solve important real-world problems for society’s benefit
in a measurable manner; (ii) interdisciplinary researchers combining MAS
research with various disciplines (e.g., social science, psychology and
criminology); and (iii) engineers and scientists from organizations who aim
for social good, and look to build real multi-agent systems.



*Topics of Interest*

We are interested in a broad range of research topics, both foundational
and applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Applications of Learning and Optimization in Societally Beneficial
Domains

2. Multi-Agent Systems Approaches for COVID-19

3. Multi-Agent Systems Approaches for Addressing Climate Change

4. Real-world applications of game theory for security

5. Cybersecurity

6. Security applications of machine learning

7. Foundations of game theory for security

8. Adversarial/robust learning

9. MAS Approaches for Fake news Mitigation

10. Privacy protection

11. Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization

12. Game Theoretic and/or ML Based Protection against Environmental Crime



*Submission Details*

EasyChair Link for Paper Submissions: Link
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aasg2021>

We solicit papers in two categories:

1. *Research papers* describing novel contributions in either the
development of MAS techniques (motivated by societal applications), or
their deployment in practice. Both work in progress and recently published
work will be considered. Submissions describing recently published work
should clearly indicate the earlier venue and provide a link to the
published paper. Papers in this category should be at most 8 pages (in
AAMAS format), with one additional page containing only references.

2. *Position papers* describing open problems or neglected perspectives on
the field, proposing ideas for bringing MAS methods into a new application
area, or summarizing the focus areas of a group working on MAS for social
good. Papers in this category should be at most 4 pages (in AAMAS format),
with one additional page containing only references.

All papers should be submitted in AAMAS format. Accepted papers will be
selected for oral and poster presentation based on peer review. Submissions
are not double-blind; the submitted paper should include author names and
affiliations.


Regards,
Amulya Yadav
PNC Career Development Assistant Professor
Penn State University
http://amulyayadav.com
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