From lander@cs.umass.edu Tue Jan 25 15:40:08 EST 1994 Article: 5457 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5457 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: lander@cs.umass.edu (SUSAN LANDER) Subject: CFP: Workshop on Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving Message-ID: <1994Jan24.203734.1484@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: Sterling Software Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 20:37:34 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 134 X-Md4-Signature: 1afd42603e273d88d05c55e40d6028ce ****************************************************************************** * * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * * * THE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP ON MODELS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT * * IN COOPERATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING * * * ****************************************************************************** Workshop Description -------------------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving is the avoidance, detection, and resolution of conflicts among group members. Therefore, conflict management is of great theoretical and practical interest in the development of models of multiagent problem solving. Work on conflict management has occurred in a variety of settings including Multiagent Planning and Design, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Group Decision Support Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Software Engineering, Sociology, Organizational Science, and International Relations. The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers from diverse fields to exchange ideas and promote discussion about models of conflict management. Through exploring common themes, it is hoped the participants will better understand related work from other areas, and can begin to outline a general theory of conflict management across multiple domains. The workshop also aims to encourage progress toward better models of conflict management and better tools for supporting it. Topics ------ Papers are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics: o What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? o How and where are theoretical and computational models of conflict management being used today? How do these models fare in real-world environments? o What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of the next generation of computational models? o How can computers support group conflict management? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? o Which aspects of conflict management are generic and which are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? Format ------ This full-day workshop will consist of four moderated sessions, each focusing on a primary subject area and including: o a moderator's overview of common themes and key issues o presentations of selected papers by workshop participants: presenters will be asked to address key issues identified by the moderators o a discussion panel, focusing on shared issues rather than on further explanation of participants' individual work. Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing their work. Attendance: ----------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. Submission Requirements: ----------------------- Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit either: 1) four copies of a brief research summary and statement of interest; or 2) those who wish to present current research at the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract (no longer than 6 pages), focusing on the main contribution of the work in preference to introductory material, literature review, etc. Please include a list of keywords (e.g, design, planning, CSCW, etc.), the authors' electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster at the workshop. Either hard-copy or email submissions are welcome. Submissions and questions regarding this workshop can be directed to: Mark Klein or Susan Lander Boeing Computer Services Computer Science Department P.O. Box 24346, 7L-64 University of Massachusetts Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA Amherst, MA 01003 USA mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu Voice: (206) 865-3412 Voice: (413) 545-0675 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Fax: (413) 545-1249 Submission Deadline: March 18, 1994 -------------------- Notification Date: April 8, 1994 ----------------- Workshop Committee: ------------------- Mark Klein (co-chair) Susan Lander (co-chair) Boeing Computer Services University of Massachusetts mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu D.C. Brown Stephen Lu Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Illinois dcb@cs.wpi.edu lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu V. Jagganathan D. Sriram CERC, West Virginia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology juggy@cerc.wvu.edu sriram@athena.mit.edu Simon Kaplan Katia Sycara University of Illinois Carnegie Mellon University kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu sycara@isl1.ri.cmu.edu Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu