[agents] CFP: Twelfth International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC XII)

[Sebastian Stein]

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                 Call for papers

                 A M E C   X I I

           12th International Workshop on
         Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce 


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        Held in conjunction with AAMAS 2010 
        May 10 or 11, 2010, Toronto, Canada

     http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ss2/amec2010/ 

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Overview
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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 


Invited speaker
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Sarit Kraus will be giving an
invited talk at AMEC XII (http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~sarit/).


Important dates and deadlines
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Deadline for the submission of full papers:       February 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection:             March 7, 2010
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers:  March 14, 2010
Workshop:                                         May 10 or 11, 2010


Publication
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As in the past, selected AMEC XII papers will be invited for publication
in a Springer LNBIP volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in
the AMEC series.
	

Submission instructions
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Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format at
the following link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec2010 or
by email to astrdod at acad.ash-college.ac.il, with the exact subject line:
"AMEC-XII submission". Papers must be written in English, with a maximum
length of 14 pages. Please format papers according to the Springer LNCS
Style
(http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,0
0.html). Templates for Word and Latex are available. The receipt of
submissions will be acknowledged by email. Submitted papers will be
reviewed by the program committee. 

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


Program chairs
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn at il.ibm.com 

Esther David
Department of Computer Science
Ashkelon Academic College
astrdod at acad.ash-college.ac.il 

Sebastian Stein
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
ss2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk 

Alex Rogers
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk 


Contact
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Please contact Esther David (astrdod at acad.ash-college.ac.il) or Sebastian
Stein (ss2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk) with any enquiries.


The AMEC organizers