The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

FLAIRS 06 Track on

Secure Multiparty Computations and

Distributed Constraint Reasoning

Call for papers
In the recent years, the fields of secure multiparty computations and distributed constraint reasoning started to fusion in a remarkable way. This is due on one side to the advance of secure cryptographic multiparty computations techniques towards applications related to electronic markets. On the other side it is the result of the migration of the distributed constraint reasoning research towards applications with privacy concerns.

Secure multiparty computations and distributed constraint reasoning develop computation techniques that apply to a general framework, the distributed constraint satisfaction problem. The distributed constraint satisfaction problem can model distributed concerns where agents need to agree on shared variables while requesting the satisfaction of their private/secret constraints. Such applications emerge from different classic AI fields: electronic markets, resource allocation, distributed configuration for joint offers of configurable products where the components have secret properties, distributed scheduling with private constraints.
Topics
 FLAIRS is a series of conferences organized each year in Florida (see www.flairs.com). FLAIRS 2006 (see http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06/) will take place in May 11-13, 2006 Holiday Inn Melbourne Beach, FL.
Submissions
The submissions should be made through the FLAIRS2006 web site.
The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 21, 2005.

Submission of papers: November 21, 2005

Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2006

Camera-ready versions: February 13, 2006


PC Committee (some previous members pending confirmation)
 Muhammed Basharu, RGU, UK, mb@comp.rgu.ac.uk
Stefano Bistarelli, CNR, Stefano.Bistarelli@iit.cnr.it
Berthe Choueiry, UNL, choueiry@lucca.unl.edu
Joerg Denzinger, U.Calgary, denzinge@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Edmund Durfee, U.Michigan, durfee@umich.edu
Boi Faltings, EPFL, boi.faltings@lia.di.epfl.ch
Gerhard Friedrich, UKLA, gerhard@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at
Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft, youssefh@microsoft.com
Katsutoshi Hirayama, U. Mercantile Marine JP, hirayama@ti.kshosen.ac.jp
Hyuckhul Jung, IHMC, Florida, hjung@ihmc.us
Victor Lesser, U.Massachusetts, lesser@cs.umass.edu
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, jiming@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK
Daniel Mailharo, ILOG, dmailharro@ilog.fr
Amnon Meisels, BGU, am@cs.bgu.ac.il
Debasis Mitra, FIT, dmitra@cs.fit.edu
Jay Pragnesh Modi, CS Drexel, jpmodi@cs.drexel.edu
Georg Ringwelski, Hochschule Zittau/Goerlitz, g.ringwelski@4c.ucc.ie
Adrian Petcu, EPFL, adrian.petcu@epfl.ch
Marius Silaghi, FIT, marius.silaghi@cs.fit.edu
Barry O'Sullivan, CS UCC, b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie
Milind Tambe, USC, tambe@usc.edu
Richard Wallace, 4C UCC, rjw@4c.ucc.ie
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu Univ., yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Markus Zanker, UKLA, markus.zanker@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at
 Organizers
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurth (UKLA), Austria
markus.zanker@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at
Marius Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology at Melbourne (FIT),  US
marius.silaghi@cs.fit.edu

The FLAIRS general conference will have as invited speakers: