Call for Participation for 5th Summer Workshop

by Mark C. Wilson | Jul 23, 2013

The Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) is pleased to announce that its 5th Summer Workshop will be held at the University of Auckland from 10-11 December 2013. The CMSS is an inter-disciplinary research centre whose members include mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers and economists. Information on the CMSS, and details of previous Workshops, can be found on our website: http://cmss.auckland.ac.nz/.

This year’s theme is mechanism design, but submissions on any aspect of mathematical social science are welcome.

Our 5th Workshop is co-hosted by the Energy Centre (EC) and Electric Power Optimisation Centre (EPOC) at the University of Auckland, and the Applied and Theoretical Economics (ATE) Network at Massey University. EC and EPOC will be organising a special session on the design of energy markets.

Confirmed speakers include:
Claudio Mezzetti (University of Melbourne)
Shmuel Oren (Berkeley) *Sponsored by the EC and EPOC*
Ludovic Renou (University of Essex)
Frank Wolak (Stanford University) *Sponsored by ATE and Massey University*

If you would like to submit a paper for the Workshop, please contact Matthew Ryan (m.ryan@auckland.ac.nz) for general sessions, or Golbon Zakeri (g.zakeri@auckland.ac.nz) for the special session on energy markets, by 15 October 2013. We will be glad to hear from you.
There is no fee for participating in the Workshop.

Participants may also be interested in the following event: the 1st ATE Symposium on the theme of “Competition Policy Issues: Theory Meets Practice” to be held at Massey University, Albany campus, on December 12-13. Details will be posted on the ATE website: http://ate.massey.ac.nz/.
Matthew Ryan Department of Economics University of Auckland

Workshop on Epistemic Game Theory

by Mark C. Wilson | Dec 21, 2012

A message from CMSS member John Hillas:

Dov Samet will be visiting the Economics Department at the University of Auckland in February 2013. I am organising a two day workshop on epistemic game theory on 18 and 19 February.

My apologies for the late notice. I was also hoping to have some funds to at least partially support visitors travel to and stay in Auckland. Unfortunately that has not happened and I have not funds to support any visitors (except Dov). I shall be able to provide you with some snacks and coffee.

I hope to keep the workshop reasonably informal and *somewhat* narrowly focused, that is focused on papers that are clearly in the field of epistemic game theory – though I’d be happy to consider papers that were clearly about epistemics but less clearly about game theory. I hope to start the workshop with a survey of what has been done and finish with an “open problems” forum. So I hope that the workshop will be appropriate for people who are not working in the area but who have some interest.

Please let me know if you’d like to come and particularly if you have sometime suitable that you’d like to talk about.

Our office will be closed from tomorrow until early in the new year, though I’ll be checking my email and will respond over that time. From about 3 January our office will be able to provide a little assistance with booking accommodation for anyone who would like to visit us for this workshop.

UPDATED: dates changed to 17-18 February.

Call for participation: 4th Summer Workshop

by Mark C. Wilson | Nov 17, 2012

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) will host its 4th Summer Workshop from 21-22 March 2013. There will also be an excursion on Saturday 23 March.

The 2013 Workshop will focus on Mathematical Economics, though submissions on all aspects of mathematical social science are welcome.

The keynote speakers are:

– Matthew Jackson (Stanford University, USA)
– Clemens Puppe (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany)
– Toby Walsh (University of NSW and NICTA, Australia)

There will be also talks by other visitors and local researchers. As usual some of the talks will be under the category “work in progress”. A more detailed program will be announced later. Information on the previous workshops of CMSS can be found on the webpage of our Centre (http://cmss.auckland.ac.nz).

If you are willing to participate please send a message to Arkadii Slinko (a.slinko@auckland.ac.nz) or Matthew Ryan (m.ryan@auckland.ac.nz). We will be glad to hear from you. We may have a small amount of funding for assisting junior researchers to attend.

Workshop on Game Theory, Epistemic Logic, and related topics

by Mark C. Wilson | Mar 13, 2012

From Mamoru Kaneko, an external affiliate of CMSS:

We will have a small informal workshop on epistemic logic, game theory, and related topics.  This time, emphasized topics are: Epistemic, cognitive aspects of game theory, and human behavior in social context. Methods are: philosophical, theoretical, experimental and simulation studies.

See the workshop website for more details. Submission deadline for abstracts is 25 May 2012 and the workshop is 27-30 August.

Call for papers: CoopMAS-2012

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)