WIHAS 2014 - Workshop in Intelligent Human-Agent Societies

Nowadays more and more humans work in partnership (directly or indirectly) or closely related with computational entities (agents) that are able to act autonomously and intelligently. Specifically, humans and agents have the ability to establish a series of relationships/collaborative interactions with each other, forming what might be called human-agent teams to meet their individual or collective goals within an organization or social structure. This relationship between humans and agents can be implicit or explicit, pre-designed or emergent, static or dynamic. Considering systems of people and agents operating on a large scale offers an enormous potential and, if performed properly, it will help tackle complex social applications, which are critical to our future. This view is closely related to the concept of social computing, where systems are constructed from the interactions between entities that are part of them. Possible applications of such systems are virtual marketplaces where either agents or humans interact, simulation and training environments (possibly in 3D), recommender systems, social networks applications, the area of health and medical applications, home automation, etc.. The proposed workshop aims to provide answers to questions like: What is necessary to know and design for humans to interact with software agents? and how these interactions should be formalized and structured to obtain software products that are effective in such environments?. The objective of this workshop is to advance and provide solutions in these lines allowing researchers from different disciplines to discuss about their perspectives on this topic. We particularly emphasize to investigate the concept of human-agent society as development framework of future applications based on the multi-agent systems technology and to develop methods, algorithms and models that allow humans and agents to interact, negotiate and reach agreements on a fully integrated environment in these types of societies. More specifically, submissions should propose, use or analyze computational models, methods and/or algorithms for intelligent social computing.
Topics that could be relevant for the workshop include specially applications, but also theoretical approaches, based on:
Argumentation
Auctions and Combinatorial Auctions
Automated Negotiation
Coalition & Team Formation
Conflict Resolution in Multi-agent Planning
Lifestyle Change Systems
Negotiation Support Systems
Persuasive Technologies
Preference Modeling and Aggregation
Social Choice
Social Recommender Systems
Social Simulation
Teamwork Models and Distributed Coordination
Trust and Reputation Models