<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><div><br></div><div>We have decided to extend the deadline for the AASG 2021 workshop at AAMAS 2021. The original deadline was supposed to be Feb 20th, AOE. We have extended the deadline by 5 days, so the new deadline is Feb 25th, AOE. In case there are any questions, please contact me at <a href="mailto:amulya@psu.edu">amulya@psu.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br>Amulya Yadav</div><div>PNC Technologies Career Development Professor</div><div>Penn State University</div><div><a href="http://amulyayadav.com">http://amulyayadav.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><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">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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><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">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 25th, 2021 AOE</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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><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">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></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>