[agents] COMSOC 2021 Call for Papers

[Reshef Meir]

(apologies for multiple postings)
***************************************************
First Call for Papers: Eighth International Workshop on Computational
Social Choice (COMSOC-2021), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel, June 7-10, 2021



 Webpage: https://comsoc2021.net.technion.ac.il/



***********************************************************
MISSION
***********************************************************

Computational social choice is a rapidly growing discipline at the
interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned
with the application of computational techniques to the study of social
choice mechanisms, and with the integration of social choice paradigms into
computing. The workshop aims to bring together different communities:
computer scientists interested in computational issues in social choice;
people working in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems who are
using ideas from social choice to organize societies of artificial software
agents; logicians interested in the logic-based specification and analysis
of social procedures; and last but not least, researchers coming from
social choice theory itself: economists, mathematicians and computer
scientists.


*************************
COVID-19 plan
*************************
At the time of this announcement, population in Israel is being vaccinated
at a high rate and prospects for June are optimistic.

Thus COMSOC-21 is currently planned to be held in-person at the Technion,
Haifa, Israel.

A final decision on the format will be sent by the end of April 2021.


Please do not let any uncertainty about the format stop you from submitting
a paper – for example, we recognize that some participants may be unsure
about their ability to attend in person.

** We are prepared to be quite flexible in finding solutions, and invite
you to contact us regarding any concerns you may have in this regard. **

The paper submission and review process will remain unchanged.



***********************************************************
 PAPER SUBMISSION
***********************************************************

Submissions of papers describing original or recently published work on all
aspects of computational social choice are invited. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to computational issues that arise in the
analysis of


- Preference elicitation

- Preference representation languages

- Restricted preference domains

- Voting rules

    -- axiomatic properties

    -- manipulation, control and bribery

    -- voting equilibria and dynamics

- Judgement aggregation

- Fair division and allocation

- Matching and coalition formation

- Opinion diffusion and aggregation on social networks

- Recommendation systems

- Software for collective decision-making



We welcome both theoretical and empirical work on these topics, including
(but not limited to) research on algorithms (exact, approximate,
parameterized, online and distributed), learning, logic, uncertainty and
simulations in the context of social choice.



Papers are to be submitted electronically via Easychair. All submitted
papers will be reviewed by the program committee.  Accepted papers will be
collected in informal workshop notes; however, the workshop has no formal
proceedings and the authors retain their copyright. Each accepted paper
should be presented by one of the authors, with the constraint that each
workshop participant gives at most one talk (exceptions can be made due to
unforeseen circumstances).



***********************************************************
APPLICATIONS/INDUSTRY TRACK
***********************************************************

(NEW!) COMSOC-2021 welcomes submission of papers reporting on recent
applications of computational choice to real world problems, implemented
and deployed tools, etc. Submissions will be reviewed by the program
committee, using appropriately modified guidelines. More details will
follow, in a separate announcement.


***********************************************************
POSTER SESSION
***********************************************************

 COMSOC-2021 will also include a poster session. Posters will be selected
based on abstracts. Unlike regular submissions, they will not be reviewed
by the program committee; the intention is to accept all posters that fall
within the scope of the workshop subject to space constraints. The details
of the poster session will be announced later.



***********************************************************
PLENARY SPEAKERS
***********************************************************

o Gabrielle Demange (Paris school of Economics)

o Gil Kalai (Hebrew University)

o Maya Bar-Hillel (Hebrew University)



***********************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
***********************************************************



o Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2021

o Notification of authors: mid April, 2021

o Workshop dates: June 7-10, 2021

Please contact either of the program chairs in case of any questions:


o Reshef Meir (reshefm at ie.technion.ac.il)

o William Zwicker (zwickerw at union.edu)


******************************************************
CO-LOCATED EVENTS
******************************************************

o The XXIX EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON ECONOMIC THEORY - EWET 2021
JUNE 7-9, AKKO, ISRAEL

https://sites.google.com/view/ewet2021/home

Akko is about 35min drive from the Technion, and is accessible by car or
train.

Another event that is not co-located but relevant is:
o Dagstuhl Seminar 21241: Coalition Formation Games
June 13 – 18, Dagstuhl, Germany

https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=21241
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.cs.umbc.edu/pipermail/agents/attachments/20210131/a0295193/attachment.html>