Workshop Title: Modeling Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation (MICON)

 

Project Description The goal of this 1-day multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities, such as computer science and artificial intelligence in particular, anthropologists, cognitive and social psychologists, political scientists and economists to exchange ideas and viewpoints, methods and models on inter-cultural collaboration and negotiation. With increasing globalization of business and science, cultural differences of the parties are an important factor that affects the process and outcomes of collaborative and self-interested interactions. The social science literature on culture as well as human collaboration and negotiation is vast. Most of this literature is devoted to work within the same culture. Artificial intelligence researchers, on the other hand, have developed computational models of cooperation, conflict resolution and negotiation, but paying almost no attention to identifying and modeling cultural factors. In recent years, we have witnessed a great increase in interest in understanding inter-cultural interactions. This has led to increased interest of social scientists and computational scientists in theoretical and experimental analysis of inter-cultural exchanges, modeling and support. Currently, these communities are largely unconnected. There is a great need to bring them together to share research work and experiences, discuss ideas and forge interdisciplinary collaborative relations. The workshop will be of interest to researchers from AI/computer science and social/behavioral sciences fields, such as psychology, sociology, communications, organizational science. W-24: Modeling Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation (MICON) Proceedings Pasadena, California, July 13, 2009. Workshop Paper Topics The workshop seeks papers in the following and related topics: Theories of intercultural collaboration and/or negotiation Dynamical theories of culture and culture change Computer supported intercultural self-interested and/or collaborative interactions Laboratory studies of intercultural collaboration and negotiation Social network analysis of culture and conflict/negotiation Field studies of intercultural interactions Ubiquitous/ambient technologies for intercultural collaboration Internet and web technologies for intercultural collaboration Frameworks and methods for measurement of cultural factors Multilingual communication technologies Language resources for intercultural collaboration and negotiation Computational models of intercultural collaboration All papers are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience and focus on issues of intercultural collaboration and/or negotiation. Full papers should be no longer than 10 pages. We also solicit short 3-page position papers. An edited volume is expected to result from the workshop. Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the LNCS Springer instructions found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Workshop Format The workshop will be one full day long. The workshop formal will include invited presentations that will introduce and integrate topics, as well as panels that are interdisciplinary in nature and which focus on a common topic. At least 50% of the workshop time will be allocated to discussions and breaks so that participants can exchange ideas and hopefully form productive multidisciplinary collaborations. * December 12, 2008 - IJCAI-09 Workshop Program Announced * December 13, 2008 - Workshop CFP Distributed * April 3, 2009 - Submission of contributions to workshops * April 17, 2009 - Workshop paper acceptance notification * May 8, 2009 - Deadline for final camera ready copy to workshop organizer * May 22, 2009 - Deadline for completed workshop notes submission to AAAI * July 13, 2009 - IJCAI-09 Workshops Workshop Organizers Katia P. Sycara School of Computer Science (Primary POC) 5000 Forbes Ave, Newell Simon Hall 1602D Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail: katia@cs.cmu.edu Michele Gelfand Department of Psychology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 E-mail: mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu Allison Abbe U.S. Army Research Institute 2511 Jefferson Davis Hwy Arlington, VA 22202 E-mail: allison.abbe@us.army.mil Tentative Program Committee Scott Atran, Anthropology, CNRS, France Robert Axelrod, School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, USA Geoff Gordon, Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Toru Ishida, Social Informatics, University of Kyoto, Japan Yoshi Kashima, School of Behavioral Science, University of Melbourne, Australia Sarit Kraus, Math and CS, Bar Ilan University, Israel Arie Kruglanski, Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Michael Lewis, Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA Dana Nau, Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Andrjez Nowak, Psychology, Florida Atlantic University and University of Warsaw, Poland Avi Pfeffer, EECS, Harvard, USA Eduardo Salas, Psychology, University of Central Florida, USA Thomas Schelling, Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Catherine Tinsley, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA Laurie Weingart, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA