[DMANET] CFC--NIPS Workshop on Social Choice: Theory and Practice

Workshop on Social Choice: Theory and Practice
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Held in conjunction with the Neural Information Processing Systems
(NIPS) Conference

Date: December 7th or 8th (TBA), 2012, Lake Tahoe, USA

Overview
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The workshop aims to bring together experts in social choice theory,
social sciences, psychology, mathematics, statistics, decision and
information theory, as well as computer scientists in order to create
a forum for discussing new and old challenges in social choice theory
and its applications.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- social decision making mechanisms,
- voting protocols and vote aggregation,
- voting and voter influence over social networks,
- opinion dynamics analysis and modeling,
- statistical inference methods for voting systems,
- connections between voting systems and database systems.

Dates
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- Submission deadline: October 19, 2012
- Acceptance notification: November 11, 2012
- Workshop date: December 7th or 8th, 2012

More information about the workshop can be found at:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/touri1/www/nips/

List of Confirmed Speakers
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Farzad Farnoud (Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amy Langville (Mathematics/Social Science), College of Charlston

Jure Leskovec (Machine Learning/Social Networks), Stanford University

Andrea Montanari (Physics/Engineering/Social Networks), Stanford University

Michael Regenwetter (Psychology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Devavrat Shah (Engineering/Social Networks), MIT


Organizers

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* Faramarz Fekri: Georgia Tech University
* Olgica Milenkovic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Behrouz Touri: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submissions
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We invite submission of extended abstracts for 20 minute oral
presentations. The extended abstract should not exceed 4 pages and
must satisfy the formatting instructions described in the NIPS 2012
call for papers.

Style files are available at http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles.
Please note that the review process is not double blind, so that the
submitted manuscripts must contain contact information of the authors.
Contributions should be submitted to touri1@illinois.edu not later
than 23:59 EST on
Friday, October 19, 2012
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