1st Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
(COMSOC-2006)
Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2006
URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/COMSOC-2006/
MISSION
Computational social choice is a new discipline emerging 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 this workshop 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 multi-
agent systems who are using ideas from social choice 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-2006 is generously funded by the NWO (Dutch Research Council),
which will allow us to bring in several prominent scientists as
invited speakers, whilst keeping registration fees very low.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Invited speakers will include Steven Brams (New York), Noam Nisan
(Jerusalem), Francesca Rossi (Padova), and Harrie de Swart (Tilburg).
Further speakers will be announced at a later time.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Submissions of 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 will be electronic via the workshop website. Details
regarding the submission procedure and formatting instructions will be
announced at a later time. Accepted papers will be collected in
informal workshop notes, printed copies of which will be available at
the workshop. Please contact either one of the programme chairs should
you have any questions:
o Ulle Endriss (ulle@illc.uva.nl)
o Jerome Lang (lang@irit.fr)
IMPORTANT DATES
o Paper submission deadline: 1 October 2006
o Notification of authors: 6 November 2006
o Camera-ready papers due: 17 November 2006
o Workshop dates: 6-8 December 2006
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
o Krzysztof Apt
o John Bartholdi
o Vincent Conitzer
o Ulle Endriss (co-chair)
o Thibault Gajdos
o Edith Hemaspaandra
o Wiebe van der Hoek
o Jerome Lang (co-chair)
o Christian List
o Nicolas Maudet
o Eric Pacuit
o Marc Pauly
o Hans Peters
o Joerg Rothe
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