[agents] CFP: 2010 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)

[Kate Larson]

Call for Papers

Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2010)
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/tada2010/index.html
 
June 7th or 8th, 2010, Cambridge, MA
Held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC10)


**Submission Deadline: April 1, 2010**

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 have 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 2010 Trading Agent 
Competition (TAC-2010) http://www.sics.se/tac with finals held during 
the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2010)  
http://www.sigecom.org/ec10/, but paper submissions need not be directly 
related to TAC. In fact, we encourage submissions related to other 
trading scenarios.


**Important Dates and Deadlines**

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 23, 2010
Early registration deadline for EC 2010: May 7, 2010
Camera Copy Deadline: May 15, 2010
Workshop: June 7th or 8th, 2010


**Submission Instructions**

Papers should be 8 two-column pages, including references. Manuscripts 
are exptected to be in English, and should be in PDF format. You should 
use the ACM SIG proceedings template 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System website
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=tada2010.

**Program Committee**

Michael Benisch, Carnegie Mellon University
John Collins, University of Minnesota
Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Patrick Jordan, University of Michigan
Wolf Ketter, RSM Erasmus University
Kate Larson, (Chair) University of Waterloo
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool
Tracy Mullen, Pennsylvania State University
Victor Naroditskiy, University of Southampton
Jinzhong Niu, City University of New York
David Pardoe, University of Texas
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney