[agents] ACAN2008 at AAMAS2008 Deadline extended

[Takayuki Ito]

Due to requests received from multiple authors,
ACAN2008 havs extended the deadline to *Feb 1*.

New dates:

1 February, 2008: Paper submission
25 February 2008: Notification of accepted papers
5 March, 2008: Camera-ready submission
12-13 May, 2008: ACAN2008 Workshop


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ACAN 2008 Call for Papers.

The first International Workshop on
Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN08).

To be held in conjunction with
the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous and Multi- 
Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008),
12-16 May 2008

http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/ACAN2008/

Submission page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2008

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Scope and Background
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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.

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Important dates
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* FEBRUARY 25, 2008 - Submission of contributions to workshop
* FEBRUARY 25, 2008 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* MAY 12/13 - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2008

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Submission
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Submission page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2008

For gathering high quality papers, each paper needs to be reviewed by  
at least two PC members or experts in the field.  Acceptance standards  
include its technical soundness, novelty, impact and readability.  
Also, we will assume that papers accepted should have full-paper  
quality with small revisions for special issue in a journal.

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Special issue in Journal
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Selected papers will be published in the special issues in Multiagent  
and Grid Systems, and International Transactions on Systems Science  
and Applications.

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Organization
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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)