by Mark C. Wilson | Feb 6, 2012
** Call for Papers **
The Third Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-2012)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~stephane/coopmas12/
Workshop co-located with AAMAS-2012
Valencia, Spain
June 4th or 5th, 2012
**Key dates**
* Submission of contributions: February 28th 2012
* Acceptance notification: March 27th 2012
* Workshop: June 4th or 5th, 2012
*Submission Instructions*
Submission must follow the Springer LNCS format and should be a maximum of 15 pages.
Papers must be submitted in PDF through easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coopmas2012
*Aims and Focus*
The use of cooperative game theory to study how agents should cooperate and collaborate, along with the related topic of coalition formation, has received growing attention from the multiagent systems, game theory, and electronic commerce communities.
The workshop is intended to focus on topics in cooperation in multi-agent systems, cooperative game theory and cooperative solution concepts, formation of coalitions, negotiation between agents, joint decision making, and voting. We encourage submission of papers describing original or recently published work (in venues that are not typically attended by AAMAS participants, i.e., conferences other than AAMAS/AAAI/IJCAI). We also encourage submission of full version of short papers accepted at AAMAS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Cooperative game theory
* Coalition formation
* Joint decision making and voting
* Representation issues
* Negotiation
* Collaborative filtering
* Market and economics based cooperation
* Interact with humans (negotiation / collaboration)
The workshop should be of interest to researchers in cooperative game theory and coalition formation, as well as to those who examine collaboration between agents, cooperation in multiagent systems and design and implement collaborating agents. We also welcome participants who are interested in applications of cooperative game theory, which include trading agents, sponsored search and recommender systems.
*Program Committee*
Confirmed PC members (to be completed)
* Haris Aziz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
* Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
* Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
* Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
* Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
* Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
* Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
*Workshop Organizers*
* Stéphane Airiau (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, Cambridge United Kingdom)
* Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
* Lirong Xia (CRCS, Harvard University, United States)
by Mark C. Wilson | Jan 31, 2012
Organization/Institution: NICTA (National ICT Australia)
Researchers (Optimisation)
At least 2 positions available for researchers on the interface of optimization, social choice
and machine learning.
Competitive Salary: 85K-110K Australian, incl. superannuation.
Duration: Up to 3 years in the first instance.
Research project: Optimisation, Preferences and Mechanism Design in Social Networks.
NICTA (National ICT Australia) is Australia’s Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence. Our
primary goal is to conduct world-class research generating fundamental
scientific results with an impact on society. NICTA aspires to be one
of the world’s top ten ICT research centres by 2020.
Applications are invited for researcher positions within the
Optimisation Research Group, to work with Toby Walsh and other
members of the group in Sydney.
We seek outstanding researchers who have recently received their PhD
to be part of a large, world-class optimisation group. The researchers
will join a new research project on the interface of the optimisation,
machine learning, and social networks. Social networks
are transforming the way that people and businesses interact.
However, they throw up many challenging new optimisation problems.
How do we best combine the preferences of multiple users? How do
best learn these preferences? How do we design mechanisms that use
these preferences which encourage truthful behaviour yet generate
outcomes which are (close to) optimal? Can we exploit the structure
of the social network?
Candidates should have a PhD in computer science, computational aspects
of economics, operations research, or related areas, with
a strong background in artificial intelligence, social choice,
operations research, machine learning or mechanism design. Candidates
should have a strong theoretical background, as well as programming
skills and experience in using optimisation technologies.
It is expected that all researchers will continue to build upon their
international reputation by publishing papers and attending top
conferences, while participating in projects at NICTA.
Application Instructions
The full text of the advertising will appear shortly.
Application Instructions
Please email resume, motivation letter, short research statement, and names of 3 referees to:
Toby Walsh (toby.walsh@nicta.com.au)
by Mark C. Wilson | Nov 8, 2011
Speaker: Simon Grant
Affiliation: The University of Queensland
Title: A matter of interpretation: Ambiguous contracts and liquidated damages
Date: Tuesday, 22 Nov 2011
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Room 6115, Owen Glenn Building
We focus on syntactic aspects of differential awareness that give rise to contractual disputes. Boundedly rational parties use a common language, but do not share a common understanding of the world, leading to ambiguity in both syntactic and semantic forms. In contractual relationships, ambiguity leads to disagreement and disputes. We show that the agents may prefer simpler less ambiguous contracts when facing potential disputes. In particular, parties may prefer liquidated damages provisions to contractual terms that specify a more complex risk allocation.
Everyone welcome!
by Mark C. Wilson | Oct 24, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS
Thirteenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’12)
June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain
http://www.sigecom.org/ec12/
This conference includes areas of interest to CMSS members, such as Computational Social Choice, Preferences and Decision Theory. Invited speakers for the 3rd CMSS summer workshop, Edith Elkind and Jerome Lang, are senior programme committee members.
by Mark C. Wilson | Oct 24, 2011
The Centre for Mathematical Social Science at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) is organizing a workshop on the theme “Algorithmic. Logical and Game-theoretic aspects of Social Choice” for 20-21 February 2012. The organizing committee is: Arkadii Slinko, Mark Wilson, Matthew Ryan. Invited speakers:
- Edith Elkind (Nanyang Tech, Singapore)
- Piotr Faliszewski (AGH Krakow, Poland)
- Jerome Lang (University of Paris 9, France)
- Toby Walsh (University of NSW and NICTA, Australia)
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