COMSOC-2008 Call for papers

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Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
(COMSOC-2008)

Liverpool, 3-5 September 2008

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~pwg/COMSOC-2008/

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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Computational social choice is an interdisciplinary field of study at
the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is
concerned with the application of computational techniques to the
study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of social
choice paradigms into computing. The aim of the COMSOC workshops is to
bring together the different communities that have been addressing
such issues: computer scientists interested in computational issues in
social choice; people working in artificial intelligence and
multiagent systems who are using ideas from social choice theory to
organise societies of artificial software agents; logicians interested
in the logic-based specification and analysis of social procedures
(social software); and last but not least people coming from social
choice theory itself.

COMSOC-2008 is funded by an EPSRC research grant, which will allow us
to bring in a number of prominent scientists as invited speakers,
whilst keeping registration fees very low.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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COMSOC-2008 will feature invited talks by Salvador Barbera
(Barcelona), Rohit Parikh (CUNY), Tuomas Sandholm (CMU), Moshe
Tennenholtz (Technion), and William Thomson (Rochester).

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PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Submissions of full papers describing original or recently published
work on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

o complexity-theoretic analysis of voting procedures
o computational aspects of fair division
o cake-cutting algorithms
o distributed negotiation in multiagent system
o preference representation in combinatorial domains
o computational aspects of preference aggregation rules
o preference elicitation
o social choice and constraint programming
o social choice and the web: ranking systems
o belief and judgement aggregation
o computational aspects of coalition formation
o social choice under uncertainty
o logics for collective decision making
o logic-based verification of social procedures
o communication complexity of social choice mechanisms
o computational issues in mechanism design

Paper submission is electronic via the workshop website (submission
deadline: 3rd June 2008). Papers (of around 5000 words) should be
formatted according to the instructions soon to be made available at
the workshop website. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be collected in informal
workshop notes, printed copies of which will be available at the
workshop. To accommodate the publishing needs of different scientific
communities, we stress that authors will retain the copyright of their
papers and that submitting to COMSOC-2008 does not preclude
publication of the same material in a journal or in archival
conference proceedings. Submission is restricted to one paper per
principal author (each accepted paper should be presented by a
different author). Please contact either one of the programme chairs
in case of any questions:

o Ulle Endriss (ulle@xxxxxxxxxxx)
o Paul Goldberg (p.w.goldberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

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COLOCATED EVENT
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COMSOC-2008 will take place immediately after a workshop on "Market
Based Control", supported by the EPSRC-funded "Market Based Control"
project (http://www.marketbasedcontrol.com). This meeting will
feature talks by several guest speakers (inlcuding Sarit Kraus, David
Parkes and Peter Stone), and COMSOC-2008 participants are cordially
invited to attend.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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o Paper submission deadline: 3 June 2008
o Notification of authors: 7 July 2008
o Camera-ready papers due: 1 August 2008
o Workshop dates: 3-5 September 2008

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE and LOCAL ORGANISERS
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o Felix Brandt o Wiebe van der Hoek
o Vincent Conitzer o Peter McBurney
o Edith Elkind o Michael Wooldridge
o Ulle Endriss (co-chair)
o Paul Goldberg (co-chair)
o Lane Hemaspaandra
o Sebastien Konieczny
o Jerome Lang
o Christian List
o Vangelis Markakis
o Vahab Mirrokni
o Gabriella Pigozzi
o Francesca Rossi
o Remzi Sanver
o Arkadii Slinko
o Michael Trick
o Berthold Voecking
o William S. Zwicker

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