[agents] AMEC 2008 - Extended Deadline - Feb. 1 2008

[Onn Shehory]

--------- * Submission Deadline Extended until 1st of Feb 2008 *-----------

                        * Paper submission is now open *

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
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                     The Tenth International Workshop on
                "Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce" (AMEC 08),

                            May 12 or 13, 2008,
                            Estoril, Portugal.

                         Colocated with AAMAS 08

               http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~shechory/AMEC_2008/

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Aims and Focus:
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The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems in which agents are
deployed involves finding solutions to a large and diverse array of
problems, concerning individual agent behaviors, interaction, and
collective behavior. A wide variety of electronic commerce scenarios
and systems, and agent approaches to these, have been studied in recent
years. These studies suggest models that support the design and the
analysis at both the level of the single agent and the level of the
multi-agent system.

This workshop will address both the agent level and the system level,
combining design and analysis aspects of electronic commerce. The
primary goal of this workshop is to continue to bring together novel
work from diverse fields as Computer Science, Game Theory, Economics,
Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems that focus on modeling,
implementation and evaluation of computational trading agents and
institutions. We particularly encourage work that addresses the
computational and practical aspects of agent-mediated electronic
commerce along the following (non-limiting) topics:

-  Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
-  AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce
-  Algorithmic mechanism design
-  Auction and negotiation technology
-  Automated shopping, trading, and contract management
-  Computational aspects of economics, game theory, and voting
-  Experience with e-commerce systems and markets
-  Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
-  Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts
-  Learning and Intelligence aspects of trading agents
-  Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
-  Prediction/information markets
-  Preferences and decision theory
-  Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems
-  Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance

Furthermore, this workshop will also welcome position papers discussing
central non-technical issues of agent-mediated electronic commerce.
For instance:

-  Business models and markets for AMEC
-  Novel applications
-  Past and future of AMEC technologies
-  Technical, economic, social and policy opportunities and challenges of
AMEC

Submission Details:
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Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec_08
or by email to Onn Shehory (email, see below), with the exact subject line:
"AMEC-X submission". In addition, authors should submit an ASCII
abstract, with the following information: title of paper; names and
affiliations of authors; name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax
number of primary contact; and abstract. The same information should be
included on the first page of submitted papers. Papers must be written
in English, with a maximum length of 14 pages. Please format papers
according to the Springer LNCS Style. Templates for Word, WordPerfect and
Latex are available. The receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by
email. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee.
All correspondence about submissions and contributions will be to: Onn
Shehory.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission: February 1, 2008
Acceptance notification: February 25, 2008
Camera ready due:  March 7, 2008
Workshop date: 12 May, 2008

Publication:
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As in the past, selected AMEC X papers will be invited for publication in a
Springer LNCS/LNAI volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in the
AMEC series.

Workshop Location and History:
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AMEC X is collocated with the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2008), in Estoril,
Portugal. It will take place on May 12, 2007.
AMEC X will build on the success of previous workshops, namely: AMEC IX,
collocated with AAMAS-2006; TADA/AMEC VIII, collocated with AAMAS-2006;
AMEC VII, collocated with AAMAS-2007; AMEC VI, collocated with AAMAS'04;
AMEC V, collocated with AAMAS'03; AMEC IV, collocated with AAMAS'02;
AMEC III, collocated with Agents'00; and AMEC II, collocated with IJCAI'99.
Compilations of the best workshop papers of previous AMEC editions have
been published as edited books by Springer, in the LNCS / LNAI series.

Workshop organizers:
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn at il.ibm.com

Han La Poutre
CWI (Netherlands Research Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science)
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
hlp at cwi.nl
and:
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Primary contact:
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn at il.ibm.com