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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Apologies
for cross-posting)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">C-MAS2023:
The First International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(held
during AAMAS 2023, London, 30<sup>th</sup> May 2023)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Webpage: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/cmas23" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://sites.google.com/view/cmas23</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow">UPDATE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow">: The submission
deadline has been extended to <b>3<sup>rd</sup> March 2023</b> (see important
dates below).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Large-scale
AI systems promise to address important societal challenges, such as
decarbonising our energy system, transitioning to on-demand mobility or
responding effectively to disasters. However, citizen end users are often seen
as peripheral to these systems, assumed to be passively providing data and
consuming services. The goal of this workshop is to explore alternative
approaches that treat citizen end users as first-class agents with diverse
needs and preferences, thus enabling more trustworthy, fairer and potentially
more widely accepted sociotechnical solutions to pressing societal challenges.
The workshop will draw on the substantial body of work within multi-agent
systems on how to model, design and reason about complex systems of interacting
self-interested agents, which may include citizen end users, service providers,
governmental bodies and other stakeholders. It will also build on emerging
techniques from human-centred AI to promote fairness and to enable
explainability. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">More
specifically, some of the key open technical issues in enabling citizen-centric
multi-agent systems (C-MAS) include: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Preference Learning: How to
learn the needs and preferences of citizens? How to do this with sparse
observations and limited interactions? How to preserve user privacy? How
to aggregate preferences? </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Incentive Design: How to
minimise strategic behaviour and scope for manipulation by all
stakeholders? How to offer incentives for behaviour change in a
transparent and socially acceptable manner? </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fairness: How to ensure the
C-MAS leads to fair and equitable decisions? How to monitor and minimise
bias? How to trade off social, economic and environmental objectives
within a C-MAS? </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Explainability and Feedback:
How to explain decisions to citizens? How to involve all stakeholders in
gathering feedback, co-designing and monitoring the operation of a
C-MAS? </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
workshop is closely related to topics discussed at AAMAS, but with a focus on
human-centred approaches. In particular, we encourage submissions using a wide
range of MAS techniques, including (but not limited to): </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Agent-based modelling and
simulation </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Game theory and mechanism
design, including game-theoretical analysis of C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Preference elicitation and
negotiation, Preference aggregation and computational social
choice </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Formal methods and norms in
C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multiagent reinforcement
learning (MARL) and interactive reinforcement learning </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human-in-the loop
approaches, human-AI teaming </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Novel deep learning
approaches for single- and multi-agent systems </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multi-objective optimisation
(both quantitative and qualitative) for C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evaluation of agents in the
context of C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cooperative exploration and
learning to cooperate and collaborate in C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Learning trust and
reputation for C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scaling learning techniques
to large systems of C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bio-inspired
C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Explainable and responsible
AI for C-MAS </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Interdisciplinary
approaches </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We also
encourage submissions that look at applications of C-MAS to complex real-world
problems. These might include domains such as the following (but also many
more): </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Smart transportation in
urban and rural areas </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Uses of AI systems in smart
energy </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Disaster
response </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI in the healthcare
domain </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This
workshop will be relevant for researchers, both in industry and academia, whose
research affects and involves citizen end users. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission
and important dates </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How to
submit a paper </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Participants
are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages, plus one page for references,
Springer LNCS format) describing their work on one or more of the topics
relevant to the workshop. Your paper should include a title as well as all
authors and affiliations. It should articulate the objectives of the paper and
provide a brief, but thorough description of the research related to the theme
of the workshop. We encourage both mature research and work in progress.
Accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version to be included
in the open access pre-proceedings. All submissions to the workshop will be
reviewed by the organising committee and the program committee, with at least
two independent reviews per paper. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Authors
are requested to prepare their submissions by following the <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">LNCS Springer format</span></a>,
preferably using the LaTeX template provided, but an MS Word template is also
available. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All
papers must be submitted through the workshop's EasyChair page <br>
<a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cmas23" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cmas23</span></a>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important
dates: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<ul><li><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><s><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">30 January
2023</span></s></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <b>3 March 2023</b>: Deadline for
paper submissions (23:59 Anywhere on Earth)</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></li><li><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><s><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">13 March 2023</span></s></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <b>27 March 2023</b>: Notification of acceptance following the
review process </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><s><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">15 April 2023</span></s></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> 5 May 2023</span></b></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: Deadline
for submitting camera-ready papers for inclusion in the pre-proceedings </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></li><li><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">30 May 2023</span></b></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: C-MAS workshop (in-person only) </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></li><li><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="gmail-c9dxtc"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Following the workshop: Invitation for full
papers </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Proceedings
and special issue </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All accepted
short papers will be made available in the pre-proceedings. Please note that at
least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to appear
in the workshop’s pre-proceedings. After the conference all presenters will be
invited to submit a full paper for the C-MAS 2023 proceedings to appear as a
special issue in a related journal (tbc). </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Webpage: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/cmas23" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://sites.google.com/view/cmas23</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more
information, please contact <a href="mailto:cmas23@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">cmas23@soton.ac.uk</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Organisers: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Behrad Koohy, University of
Southampton </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kate Larson, University of
Waterloo </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marija Slavkovik, University
of Bergen </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Natalia Criado, Universitat
Politècnica de València </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sebastian Stein, University
of Southampton </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vahid Yazdanpanah,
University of Southampton</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></li></ul>
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Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah<br>
University of Southampton, UK<br>
W - <a href="https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/vy1y20" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/vy1y20</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
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