[DMANET] CoopMAS'14 @AAMAS'14: call for papers

We would like to invite submissions to
CoopMAS'14: the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Games in
Multiagent Systems, to be co-located with AAMAS'14 in Paris in May
2014.

*********************** 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
multi­agent systems, cooperative game theory, cooperative solution
concepts, coalition formation, and applications.

We encourage submission of papers describing original work, as well as
accepted AAMAS short papers, and work recently published in
conferences other than 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
Behavioral models for cooperative games
Applications of cooperative solution concepts

The workshop should be of interest to researchers who study the
mathematical and algorithmic properties of cooperative games;
researches interested in promoting cooperation in multiagent systems,
designing and implementing collaborating agents and mechanisms that
incentivize cooperation; and researchers studying the underlying
connections between cooperative game theory and other topics in game
theory and computer science.

We also welcome participants who are interested in applications of
cooperative game theory (for example, trading agents, recommender
systems, and energy and water management). In particular we encourage
submissions on empirical and experimental study of applying solution
concepts from cooperative game theory to real world problems.

***************************Key dates****************************

Submission of contributions: 5 Feb 2014
Acceptance notification: 1 March 2014
Workshop: 5-­6 May 2014

*****************Submission Instructions************************

Submission must follow the Springer LNCS format (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0­164­6­793341­0 for
formatting instructions) and should be a maximum of 15 pages.

Papers must be submitted in PDF through easychair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coopmas2014

CoopMAS is considered a non­archival venue and there are no published
proceedings, though informal proceedings will be distributed to all
workshop participants.

This means that publishing a paper in CoopMAS should not prevent one
from submitting it to a conference or a journal at the same or later
time. The requirement to use the LNCS format is imposed to ensure
uniformity.

*******************************Organizers: ******************************

Georgios Chalkiadakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece.
gehalk@intelligence.tuc.gr

Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, UK.
elkind@cs.ox.ac.uk

Reshef Meir, Harvard University, USA.
rmeir@seas.harvard.edu

****************************Program Committee: ***********************

Stephane Airiau (LAMSADE – Universite Paris-Dauphine)
Haris Aziz (NICTA and University of New South Wales)
Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Peter Biro (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional
Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Dinko Dimitrov (Saarland University)
Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology)
Josep Freixas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria)
Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford)
Ziv Hellman (Bar-Ilan University)
Atsushi Iwasaki (Kyushu University)
Bettina Klaus (University of Lausanne)
Ehud Lehrer (Tel Aviv University)
Vangelis Markakis (Athens University of Economic and Business)
Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw/Oxford University)
Daniel Paulusma (Durham University)
Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton)
Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University)
Talal Rahwan (University of Southampton)
Valentin Robu (University of Southampton)
Jeffrey Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Long Tran-Thanh (University of Southampton)
Nelson Uhan (United States Naval Academy)
Gerhard J. Woeginger (TU Eindhoven)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford)
Lirong Xia (RPI)
Yair Zick (Nanyang Technological University)

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