The deadline for the NIPS Workshop on Decision Making with
Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers has been extended
to OCTOBER 25, 2011.
Details: http://www.utia.cz/NIPSHome
Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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NIPS Workshop: Decision Making with Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers
December 16 or December 17, 2011, Sierra Nevada, Spain
Webpage: http://www.utia.cz/NIPSHome
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OVERVIEW
Prescriptive Bayesian decision making supported by the efficient, theoretically
well-founded algorithms is known to be a powerful tool. However, its
application within multiple-participants' settings needs an efficient support
of imperfect participant (decision maker, agent), which is characterised by
limited cognitive, acting and evaluative resources. The interacting and
multiple-task-solving participants prevail in the natural (societal,
biological) systems and become more and more important in the artificial
(engineering) systems. Knowledge of conditions and mechanisms influencing the
participant's individual behaviour is a prerequisite to better understanding
and rational improving of these systems. The diverse research communities
permanently address these topics focusing either on theoretical aspects of the
problem or (more often) on practical solutions within a particular application.
However, different terminology and methodologies used significantly impede
further exploitation of any advances occurred. The workshop will bring the
experts from different scientific communities to complement and generalise the
knowledge gained relying on the multi-disciplinary wisdom.
The NIPS2011 Workshop is a one-day workshop that will consist of two 3-hour
sessions. There will be 7 invited talks by experts in the area, 4-6 contributed
talks and a poster session of contributed papers. There will be time at the end
of each talk/session for questions and discussion. A panel discussion moderated
by the organisers is scheduled.
CONFIRMED INVITED TALKS (in alphabetical order)
Miroslav Karny, Tatiana V.Guy, Institute of Information Theory and Automation:
TBA
David Leslie, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol: "Random belief
learning"
David Rios Insua, Royal Academy of Sciences, and Aisoy Robotics sl: "Decision
support for a social emotional robot"
Pascal Poupart, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo: "Explaining
automated policies for sequential decision making"
Stephen Roberts, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford:
"Preference learning and weak decision combination in dynamic environments"
Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University: TBA
Alessandro E.P. Villa, University of Lausanne: "Effect of emotion on the
imperfectness of decision making"
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers due OCTOBER 25, 2011
Notification of acceptance for the workshop and decision on selection of
contributions for the book due NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Camera ready due: November 15, 2011
Workshop: December 16 or December 17, 2011
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions should be 4-6 pages in NIPS format
(http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles)
Submissions need not to be anonymous. Submissions in pdf format only
should be sent to imperfec...@utia.cas.cz with the subject line "NIPS Workshop"
and with the title, authors' names and abstract included in the body of the
message. Please note that one author of each accepted paper must present the
paper at the workshop.
Accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings.
A number of selected workshop contributions will be invited for publication in
an edited book to be published by Springer in the Intelligent Systems Reference
Library series. A notification of selection of a contribution for the book will
be sent together with an acceptance decision by November 1, 2011.
CONTACTS
You can reach the organisers at imperfec...@utia.cas.cz
Workshop web page: http://www.utia.cz/NIPSHome
NIPS Conference webpage: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2011/
Workshop Organisers:
M.Karny, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
T.V.Guy, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
D.Wolpert, Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
D. Rios Insua, Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain
A.E.P. Villa, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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