Katia Sycara, Allison Abbe, and Michelle Gelfand are putting together a workshop on “Modeling Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation” which has been accepted for the July 2009 conference of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The workshop will be on Sunday July 12th in Pasadena Conference Center, Pasadena, California.
Workshop Title: Modeling Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation
(MICON)
Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/micon.html.
Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009
The goal of this multi-disciplinary 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.
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.
SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE MARCH 6, 2009.
Contact: Michele Gelfand, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, e-mail: mgelfand@psyc.umd.edu
