Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- NIPS 2016 Workshop: IMPERFECT DECISION MAKERS: ADMITTING REAL-WORLD RATIONALITY
Barcelona, Spain December 9-10, 2016 Workshop web: http://www.utia.cz/imperfectDM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Early Submission Deadline: September 22, 2016 Early Notification of acceptance: October 3, 2016 Late Submission Deadline: October 14, 2016 Late Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2016 Submission of the final version due: November 18, 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIRMED INVITED TALKS (in alphabetical order) Daniel Braun, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Jerome R. Busemeyer, Indiana University, USA Itzhak Gilboa, HEC Paris, France Tom Griffiths, University Berkeley, USA Pedro Ortega, University of Pennsylvania, USA Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Israel WORKSHOP OVERVIEW The prescriptive (normative) Bayesian theory of decision making under uncertainty has reached a high level of maturity. The assumption that the decision maker is rational (i.e. that they optimize expected utility, in Savage's formulation) is central to this theory. However, empirical research indicates that this central assumption is often violated by real decision-makers. This limits the ability of the prescriptive Bayesian theory to provide a descriptive theory of the real world. One of the reasons that have been proposed for why the assumption of rationality might be violated by real decision makers is the limited cognitive and computational resources of those decision makers. This workshop intends to inspect this core assumption and to consider possible ways to modify or complement it. Many of the precise issues related to this theme - some of which will be addressed in the invited talks - can be formulated as questions: o Does the concept of rationality require Bayesian reasoning? o Does quantum probability theory (extending classical Kolmogorov probability) provide novel insights into the relation between decision making and cognition? o Do the extensions of expected utility (which is a linear function of the relevant probabilities) to nonlinear functions of probabilities enhance the flexibility of decision-making task formulating while respecting the limited cognitive resources of decision makers? o How can good (meta-)heuristics, so successfully used by real-world decision makers, be elicited? The list is definitely not complete and we expect that contributed talks, posters and informal discussions will extend it. To stimulate the informal discussions, the invited talks will be complemented by discussants challenging them. TARGETED AUDIENCE: The targeted audience is scientists and students from the diverse scientific communities (decision science, cognitive science, natural science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, social science, economics, etc.) interested in various aspects of rationality. FORMAT This is a one-day workshop in conjunction the 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016, https://nips.cc/). The workshop will be based on invited talks, contributed talks and posters. Extensive moderated and informal discussions will ensure the targeted information exchange. PAPER SUBMISSION All accepted submissions will be published in a special issue of Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMRL) as well as presented at the workshop as posters and talks. If you do not wish your work to be published in the JMRL proceedings, please indicate that in your submission email. Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length and should follow the JMLR format. Detailed formatting instructions and formatting templates can be found at http://www.jmlr.org/format/format.html. Papers that have previously appeared (or have been accepted for publication) in a journal or at a conference/workshop are not appropriate for the workshop. Submissions need not to be anonymous and should include the title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, and an abstract not to exceed 150 words. Submissions in pdf format only should be sent to: d...@utia.cas.cz with the subject line "NIPS2016 Workshop" and with the title, authors' names and abstract included in the body of the message. Please, make sure you get a confirmation email after you submit. Submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality, originality, potential impact, and clarity. The selected submissions may be accepted either as a contributed talk or as a poster presentation. Two deadlines of submission are announced. Contributions submitted by September 22, 2016 will receive an acceptance/rejection decision before the NIPS 2016 early registration deadline. Please note that one author of each accepted paper must present the paper at the workshop. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Tatiana V. Guy (CZ) Miroslav Karny (CZ) David Rios Insua (ES) David H. Wolpert (USA) CONTACTS: You can reach the organizers at: d...@utia.cas.cz Workshop web: http://www.utia.cz/imperfectDM Main Conference webpage: http://nips.cc/
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