[agents] CFP TADA-09: IJCAI-09 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis

[Enrico Gerding]

(apologies for multiple postings)

CALL FOR PAPERS

IJCAI-09 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-09)

July 13, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA

http://tada2009.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Overview
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Trading agents have become a prominent application area in Artificial 
Intelligence because of their potential benefits in electronic commerce, 
and because they present a stiff challenge to models of rational 
decision-making. A wide variety of trading scenarios and agent 
approaches has been studied, creating a broad and rich research area. 
This workshop will focus on the design and evaluation of trading agents. 
Papers on trading agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, 
theoretical analysis, empirical evaluations of agent strategies in 
negotiation scenarios, and game-theoretic analyses, are all within the 
scope of the workshop.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2009 Trading Agent 
Competition (TAC-09), with finals held during IJCAI-09, but paper 
submissions need not be directly related to TAC. In fact, we encourage 
submissions related to other trading scenarios.

Important dates and deadlines
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Deadline for the submission of full papers:     March 6, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection:     April 17, 2009
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers:       May 8, 2009
Early registration deadline for IJCAI-09:     May 15, 2009
Workshop:     July 13, 2009

Preliminary agenda
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The workshop will be held Monday, July 13, 2009. We expect to accept 
9-10 papers for 20 minute presentations, and a few for poster 
presentation. In addition to the technical papers, we will reserve time 
during the day for presentations or panels related to the ongoing TAC-09 
competition. Attendance at the workshop will be limited to about 75.

Details about the workshop program will appear on the TADA-09 homepage:

    http://tada2009.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Submission instructions
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Papers should be up to 8 two-column pages, not including references. 
Manuscripts are expected to be in English, in either postscript or PDF 
format. Papers must be formatted in accordance with AAAI publication 
standards (see http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php ).

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to: eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Note: Workshop attendees need not register for the main IJCAI 
conference, but are encouraged to do so.

Program chair

    * Enrico H. Gerding, University of Southampton

Program committee

    * Michael Benisch, Carnegie Mellon University
    * Ken Brown, University College Cork
    * John Collins, University of Minnesota
    * Maria Fasli, Essex University
    * Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University
    * Maria Gini , University of Minnesota
    * Amy Greenwald, Brown University
    * Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
    * Patrick Jordan, University of Michigan
    * Wolfgang Ketter, RSM Erasmus University
    * Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
    * Peter McBurney , University of Liverpool
    * Tomasz Michalak, University of Liverpool
    * Tracy Mullen, Penn State University
    * Jinzhong Niu, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    * Benno Overeinder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    * David Pardoe, University of Texas at Austin
    * Simon Parsons , Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    * Steve Phelps, University of Essex
    * Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar , IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia
    * Alex Rogers, University of Southampton
    * Jeffrey Rosenschein , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    * Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
    * Alberto Sardinha , Carnegie Mellon University
    * Ioannis A. Vetsikas , University of Southampton
    * Perukrishnen Vytelingum, University of Southampton
    * Michael Wellman , University of Michigan
    * Dongmo Zhang , University of Western Sydney
    * Haizheng Zhang , Microsoft

-- 
Dr. Enrico Gerding
Lecturer

Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group		Tel: +44 23 8059 9201
Electronics & Computer Science			Fax: +44 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton			
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK			

email: eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
www:  http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~eg