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                   * * * Call for Participation * * *

      WORKSHOP ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL CHOICE
                     
                     Budapest, 21-22 November 2016

                   Please register by 7 November 2016!

           http://econ.core.hu/english/res/FutureCOMSOC.html

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This workshop is organised by COST Action IC1205 on Computational 
Social Choice as the final event of this European research network. It 
will showcase some of the results obtained during the four years in 
which the Action has been active and it will offer a glimpse at future 
research directions in the field. The programme will consist of invited 
talks, an open poster session, and a rump session. Registration is free 
of charge.

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* INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Simina Brânzei (Jerusalem)
* Markus Brill (Berlin)
* László Csató (Budapest)
* Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)
* Andreas Darmann (Graz)
* Ronald de Haan (Vienna)
* Zsuzsanna Jankó (Budapest)
* Svetlana Obraztsova (Jerusalem)
* Jan Christoph Schlegel (Lausanne)
* Piotr Skowron (Oxford)
* Marija Slavkovik (Bergen)
* Balázs Sziklai (Budapest)

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* POSTER SESSION
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All members of the research community are invited to present their work 
on computational social choice and closely related topics during the 
open poster session, to be held during the first day of the workshop. 
To express your interest in presenting a poster, please send the names 
of all authors, the title of the poster, and an abstract of at most 300 
words to the organisers at comsoc2016budapest@gmail.com no later than 
7 November 2016. You will be notified about acceptance within one week. 
Space permitting, our intention is to accept all contributions that are 
in line with the theme of the workshop. We can print your accepted 
poster for you locally, if we receive the PDF by 16 November 2016.

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* RUMP SESSION
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The second day of the workshop will feature a so-called "rump session", 
where any participant interested can give a talk of 5 minutes on a 
topic of their choice, such as work in progress, an open problem, or an 
idea. Advance registration for the rump session is not possible. There 
will be a list to sign up making the rounds on the first day of the 
workshop.

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* REGISTRATION
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Registration is free of charge. To register, please send the following 
information to comsoc2016budapest@gmail.com by 7 November 2016:

* Name:
* Affiliation:
* Email address:
* Period of stay:
* Dietary restrictions: 

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* VENUE
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The workshop will take place on Castle Hill, in the lecture rooms of 
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Országház u. 30, Budapest 1014. 

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* ORGANISERS
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* Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)
* Péter Biró (Budapest)
* Ulle Endriss (Amsterdam)

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* SPONSORS
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The workshop is organised and partly financed by COST Action IC1205 
on Computational Social Choice (http://www.illc.uva.nl/COST-IC1205/). 
Additional financial support received from the Mechanism Design 
Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute 
for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the 
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of 
Amsterdam is gratefully acknowledged.

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