IJCAI-93 Workshop on Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving
Monday, August 30, 1993 Chambery, France
Description ----------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance,
detection and resolution of conflicts among the participants. Work in this area has occurred in a variety of settings including concurrent engineering, multi-agent planning & design, distributed AI, GDSS (group decision support systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), software engineering,
sociology, organizational science, public policy and international relations. This workshop offers one of the first opportunities for inter-disciplinary discussion in this key area.
The workshop will focus on the following themes: What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of computational models? What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems?
How can computers support group conflict management with both human and computational participants? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? What aspects of conflict management are generic and what are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? How do computational models of conflict management fare in real-world social and organisational settings?
Workshop Information -------------------- This full day workshop is part of IJCAI-93 (the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and will be held in Chambery, France on Monday, August 30, 1993. The workshop will consist of four moderated 75 minute sessions, each with four 10 minute presentations followed by a discussion panel. Attendees must have registered for the main conference and are required to pay an additional 300 FF (about $60 US)
fee for the workshop. IJCAI will exempt the workshop fee for one student attendee if he or she agrees to be in charge of taking notes for the whole day - please let me know if you are interested.
Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people of which 16 will be presenters. Those who wish to present a paper at
the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract no more than 5 pages long. Those who want to attend the workshop without presenting a paper should send a 1 page description of their research interests. Participants are invited to display a poster on their work. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in pure ascii or binhexed Macintosh Word/MacWrite format. Please include your physical and electronic mail address with your submissions.
Submission deadline: April 30, 1993 Notification date: May 31, 1993 Final date for revised papers: June 31, 1993
We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or published collection.
Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to:
Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, MS 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA
Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com
Organizing Committee --------------------
Steve Easterbrook University of Sussex Easterbrook@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services mklein@atc.boeing.com
Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu
Stephen C-Y. Lu University of Illinois lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu
Katia P. Sycara Carnegie Mellon University katia@cs.cmu.edu
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Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Building 33-07, Mailstop 7L-44 2760 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA
Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com