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                         1st Call for Papers

     Fourth International Workshop on Computational Social Choice
                            (COMSOC-2012)
 
                Krakow, Poland, September 11--13, 2012

              URL:  http://www.ki.agh.edu.pl/COMSOC-2012

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MISSION
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Computational social choice  is  a  discipline  that  emerged  at  the 
interface  of  social  choice  theory  and  computer  science.  It  is 
concerned with the application  of  computational  techniques  to  the 
study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of  social 
choice paradigms into computing.  The aim of the workshop is to  bring 
together  different  communities:  computer scientists  interested  in
computational issues  in social choice;  people working in  artificial
intelligence and multiagent systems  who are  using ideas from  social
choice to organize societies of artificial software agents;  logicians
interested  in  the logic-based specification  and analysis of  social
procedures;   computer   science   theorists   analyzing   algorithmic  
properties of social phenomena;  and last but not least, people coming
from social choice theory itself.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Invited speakers  will  include  Michel Le Breton  (Toulouse School of 
Economics;   tentative),   Clemens  Puppe   (Karlsruhe  Institute   of  
Technology), Craig A. Tovey (Georgia Institute of Technology), Gerhard
J. Woeginger  (Eindhoven University of Technology).  There  will  also
be an invited tutorial  by  Rolf Niedermeier (Technische  Universitaet 
Berlin).

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submissions of full papers describing original or  recently  published 
work on all aspects of computational social choice are invited. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

 o complexity-theoretic analysis of voting procedures
 o computational aspects of fair division 
 o computational aspects of matching problems
 o multiagent resource allocation
 o cake-cutting algorithms
 o distributed negotiation in multiagent systems
 o preference representation in combinatorial domains
 o computational aspects of preference aggregation rules
 o preference elicitation
 o social choice and constraint programming
 o social choice and the web: ranking systems
 o social networks
 o belief and judgement aggregation
 o algorithmic game theory
 o computational aspects of coalition formation
 o cooperative game theory
 o social choice under uncertainty
 o logics for collective decision making
 o logic-based verification of social procedures 
 o communication complexity of social choice mechanisms
 o computational issues in mechanism design

Paper submission is electronic via the workshop website. Papers should 
not exceed  12 pages in length (roughly  5000  words)  and  should  be 
formatted according to the  instructions  available  at  the  workshop
website. Accepted papers will be collected in informal workshop notes,
printed copies of which will be  available  at  the  workshop.  Please
contact either one of the program chairs in case of any questions:

 o Felix Brandt (brandtf@in.tum.de)
 o Piotr Faliszewski (faliszew@agh.edu.pl)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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 o Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2012
 o Notification of authors: June 25, 2012
 o Camera-ready papers due: July 10, 2012
 o Early registration deadline: July 20, 2012
 o Late registration deadline: August 20, 2012 (afterward only on-site
   registration)
 o Workshop dates: September 11--13, 2012

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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 o Craig Boutilier
 o Felix Brandt (co-chair)
 o Edith Elkind
 o Ulle Endriss
 o Piotr Faliszewski (co-chair)
 o Bettina Klaus
 o Jérôme Lang
 o Christian List
 o Hannu Nurmi
 o Maria Silvia Pini
 o Ariel Procaccia
 o Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
 o Jörg Rothe
 o Tuomas Sandholm
 o Michael Trick
 o Virginia Vassilevska-Williams
 o Toby Walsh
 o Michael Wooldridge
 o Lirong Xia
 o Makoto Yokoo
 o William S. Zwicker
 
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