<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This is a gentle reminder that AASG's paper submission deadline is 16 days away. Papers due on the 20th of Feb AOE. Please consider submitting papers to this workshop. AAMAS accepted papers are also welcome. In case there are any questions, please contact me at <a href="mailto:amulya@psu.edu">amulya@psu.edu</a>.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Amulya</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PNC Technologies Career Development Professor</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Penn State University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://amulyayadav.com">http://amulyayadav.com</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10px"><b>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2nd International Virtual Workshop
on Autonomous Agents for Social Good (AASG 2021)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Website</span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: <a href="https://amulyayadav.github.io/aasg2021/" target="_blank">https://amulyayadav.github.io/aasg2021/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Link</span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aasg2021" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(29,65,159)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aasg2021</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 20th,
2021</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification of
Acceptance/Rejection: March 10th, 2021</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Camera Ready Deadline: April 10th,
2021</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop Date: May 3rd (or 4th),
2021 </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Scope</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Topics of Interest</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We are interested in a broad range of research topics, both
foundational and applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">1. Applications of
Learning and Optimization in Societally Beneficial Domains</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">2. Multi-Agent Systems
Approaches for COVID-19</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">3. Multi-Agent Systems
Approaches for Addressing Climate Change</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">4. Real-world
applications of game theory for security</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">5. Cybersecurity</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">6. Security applications
of machine learning</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">7. Foundations of game
theory for security</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">8. Adversarial/robust
learning</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">9. MAS Approaches for
Fake news Mitigation</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">10. Privacy protection</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">11. Agent/human
interaction for preference elicitation and optimization</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">12. Game Theoretic
and/or ML Based Protection against Environmental Crime</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Submission Details</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">EasyChair Link for Paper Submissions: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aasg2021" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Link</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We solicit papers in two categories:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">1. <b>Research
papers</b> 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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">2. <b>Position
papers</b> 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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></div>