********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: IJCAI Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence Barcelona, 16 July 2011 (part of the IJCAI-2011 workshop programme) URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/COMSOC/IJCAI-2011/ ********************************************************************** The IJCAI Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence is part of the workshop programme of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2011), to be held in Barcelona in July 2011. We invite submissions on all aspects of computational social choice, particularly contributions focusing on questions at the interface of social choice and AI and position papers addressing new challenges and research directions for our field. ********************************************************************** TOPICS OF INTEREST ********************************************************************** Social choice theory is the study of mechanisms for collective decision making, such as election systems or protocols for fair division. Computational social choice addresses problems at the interface of social choice theory with computer science, either by using concepts and methods from social choice theory to solve problems arising in computer science (such as webpage ranking), or by using techniques from computer science to solve (or reformulate) problems of social choice (such as designing social choice rules that are computationally hard to manipulate). We welcome submissions on all aspects of computational social choice. On top of this, we specifically invite papers focusing on questions at the interface of social choice and AI. Topics of interest will therefore include, but not be limited to: * Social Choice, Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning: What are suitable languages to formally and compactly describe social choice problems? How do we best reason about these problems? What automated reasoning techniques are available to verify that a given social choice procedure satisfies a given property and to what extent can we automatically verify or discover theorems in social choice theory? * Social Choice, Search, Planning and Constraints: How do we best exploit techniques developed in AI search, planning and constraint programming to solve computationally intractable problems in social choice? * Social Choice and Multiagent Systems: How should we adapt the formal apparatus developed in social choice theory to model group decision making amongst autonomous software agents (e.g., in view of how preferences are modelled, what properties of aggregation procedures are desirable, etc.)? What are best practices for applying social choice techniques in multiagent systems? * Social Choice and Uncertainty: What can approaches developed in the Uncertainty in AI community contribute to the problem of making collective choices when various parameters of the decision to be made are uncertain (e.g., incomplete preferences, uncertain consequences of collective decisions, etc.)? * Social Choice and AI Applications: How can computational social choice benefit application areas that are widely studied in AI, such as recommender systems, Internet search engines, question answering, ontology merging, and more? ********************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ********************************************************************** We invite the submission of technical papers (up to 6 pages, IJCAI format) describing original and unpublished work as well as position papers (up to 2 pages, IJCAI format) discussing open problems and research challenges or outlining new directions for our field. We specifically welcome technical papers reporting on work in progress. Position papers will be evaluated on their originality and perceived appeal to the target audience of the workshop; interdisciplinary work is especially welcome. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. Accepted contributions will be included in the informal workshop notes, which will be distributed at the workshop (in electronic form). We do not plan to edit formally published proceedings. Instead, we hope that authors will be able to use the feedback received during the reviewing process and the workshop itself when preparing their work for submission to an archival conference or a journal at a later time. Details regarding the submission procedure and formatting instructions are available at the workshop website. ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ********************************************************************** * Submission deadline: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 * Paper notifications: Friday, 6 May 2011 * Final papers due: Monday, 16 May 2011 * Workshop: Saturday, 16 July 2011 ********************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********************************************************************** * Craig Boutilier * Ioannis Caragiannis * Vincent Conitzer * Edith Elkind (co-chair) * Ulle Endriss (co-chair) * Gabor Erdelyi * Piotr Faliszewski * Paul Harrenstein * Wiebe van der Hoek * Sebastien Konieczny * Sarit Kraus * Jerome Lang (co-chair) * Fangzhen Lin * Ariel Procaccia * Jeff Rosenschein * Francesca Rossi * Moshe Tennenholtz * Toby Walsh **********************************************************************