To be held in conjunction with
the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 12 May 2008
http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/ACAN2008/
Submission page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2008
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Announce:
May 10, 2008 : Tentative program.
May 10, 2008, Springer committed to publish a book which gather extended papers in our proceedings as Studies in Computational Intelligence series.
Accepted Papers :
| James Shew and Kate Larson. The Blind Leading the Blind: A Third-Party Model for Bilateral Multi-issue Negotiation under Incomplete Information |
| Shaheen Fatima. Sequential auctions for common value objects with budget constrained bidders |
| Ladislau Boloni and Yi Luo. Collaborative and competitive scenarios in spatio-temporal negotiation |
| Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito and Mark Klein. Effects of Revealed Area based Selection Method for Representative-based Protocol |
| Valentin Robu and Han La Poutre. Efficient decision-theoretic strategies for bidding and learning in sequential auctions for risk averse agents |
| Kwang Mong SIM and Benyun Shi. Adaptive Commitment Management Strategy Profiles for Concurrent Negotiations |
| Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Juan R. Velasco and Enrique de la Hoz. Using Clustering Techniques to Improve Fuzzy Constraint Based Automated Purchase Negotiations |
| Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker and Dmytro Tykhonov. Avoiding Approximation Errors in Multi-Issue Negotiation with Issue Dependencies |
| Yoshihito Saito and Tokuro Matsuo. Analyses of Task Allocation based on Credit Constraints |
| Quan Bai, Fenghui Ren, minjie zhang and John Fulcher. Coloured Petri Net Based State Analysis and Prediction for Multi-Agent Scheduling and Planning |
| Christoph Niemann and Florian Lang. Assess your Opponent: A Bayesian Process for Preference Observation in Multi-Attribute Negotiations |
| Hirofumi Yamaki, Takuya Furuta and Indika Katugampala. Platforms for Evaluating Automated Trust Negotiation Protocols and Strategies |
| Angelika Foerst, Achim Rettinger and Matthias Nickles. A Comparative Study of Argumentation- and Proposal-based Negotiation |
Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and are becoming an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. In general, automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors include the number of issues, dependency between issues, representation of utility, negotiation protocol, negotiation form (bilateral or multi-party), time constraints, etc. Software agents can support automation or simulation of such complex negotiations on the behalf of their owners, and can provide them with adequate bargaining strategies. In many multi-issue bargaining settings, negotiation becomes more than a zero-sum game, so bargaining agents have an incentive to cooperate in order to achieve efficient win-win agreements. Also, in a complex negotiation, there could be multiple issues that are interdependent. Thus, agent's utility will become more complex than simple utility functions. Further, negotiation forms and protocols could be different between bilateral situations and multi-party situations. To realize such a complex automated negotiation, we have to incorporate advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies includes search, CSP, graphical utility models, Bays nets, auctions, utility graphs, predicting and learning methods. Applications could include e-commerce tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tools, collaboration tools, etc. We solicit papers on all aspects of such complex automated negotiations in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, including but not limited to:
- Complex Negotiations
- Multi-Issue Negotiations
- Concurrent Negotiations
- Multiple Negotiations
- Sequential Negotiations
- Bilateral Negotiations
- Multilateral negotiation
- Negotiation and Coordination Mechanisms
- Negotiation under Asymmetric Information
- Large Scale Negotiation
- Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
- Coordination for Local and Global Consistency
- 2-sided Matching
- Predicting Opponent's Behaviours in Negotiation.
- Utility models and Preference models
- Complexity aspects of Multi-issue negotiation
- Negotiation Simulation
- Applications
These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent systems. They are, for instance, being studied in agent negotiation, multi-issue negotiations, auctions, mechanism design, electronic commerce, voting, secure protocols, matchmaking & brokering, argumentation, and co-operation mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.
Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2008
Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for more details) and should not be more than 8 pages long (excluding appendices).
Selected papers will be published in the special issues in Multiagent and Grid Systems, and International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications.
General Chairs
Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Organizing Chairs
Valentin Robu (National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, the Netherlands)
Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)
Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, England)
Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata University, Japan)
Program Chairs
Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Program Committee
Mark Klein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States)
Ho Tu Bao (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
Joaquin Delgado (LendingClub, inc., United States)
Hyuckchul Jung (Institute of Human-Machine Cognition, United States)
Wei Li (Central Queensland University, Australia)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States)
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States)
Zili Zhang (Deakin University, Australia)
Ahlem Ben Hassine (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Guoming Lai (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United State)
Miniar Hemaissia (THALES Research & Technology France, France)
Catholijn Jonker (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
Koen Hindriks (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
Contact : ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp