[agents] Call for Papers: Joint TADA/AMEC Workshop at AAMAS 2012

[Sebastian Stein]

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                  Call for papers

           T A D A  /  A M E C   2 0 1 2         

 Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis
      and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce


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        Held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012
        June 4 or 5, 2012, Valencia, Spain

www.cs.utep.edu/kiekintveld/Workshops/TADAAMEC12.html

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Workshop Description
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The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems and automated trading
agents is a prominent area of research in artificial intelligent and
multi-agent systems. Research in this area includes methods for designing
both agents and market institutions, and makes use of a wide variety of AI
techniques including planning, decision theory, game theory, machine
learning, and optimization. The scope of the workshop includes descriptions
of agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, theoretical analysis of
both markets and agents, empirical studies of agent performance or
e-commerce systems, negotiation and contracting strategies, game theoretic
analysis, mechanism design and other related topics.


Key Dates
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Submission deadline:    February 28, 2012
Notification date:      March 27, 2012
Camera-ready deadline:  April 10, 2012


Submission Details
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Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tadaamec2012. Papers must be
written in English, with a maximum length of 14 pages. Please format papers
according to the Springer LNCS Style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 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.

At least one author must register for and attend the workshop to present the
paper, if it is accepted. Workshop attendees need not register for the main
AAMAS conference, but are encouraged to do so. 


Topics
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The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Papers related to TAC agents or analysis of TAC competitions
- Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
- Algorithmic mechanism design
- Mechanisms for unreliable, dynamic and asynchronous environments
- Auction and negotiation technology
- Computational aspects of economics, game theory, and voting
- Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
- Distributed (agent and mechanism) learning models
- Agent strategies in multi-institutional environments
- Economic and game theoretic specification, design and analysis
- Bargaining, voting and auction mechanisms
- Distributed reputation and trust mechanisms
- Agents that support bidding and negotiation
- Empirical evaluation of human-agent trading
- Simulation and evaluation of properties of novel and complex mechanisms
- Implemented agent-mediated electronic-commerce systems
- Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
- Prediction/information markets


Organizing Committee
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Christopher Kiekintveld
Onn Shehory
Esther David
Sebastian Stein
Valentin Robu


Program Committee (to be finalised)
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Bo An
Sofia Ceppi
Michal Chalamish
Maria Chli
John Collins
Shaheen Fatima
Enrico Gerding
Maria Gini
Amy Greenwald
Minghua He
Patrick Jordan
Radu Jurca
Wolfgang Ketter
Jérôme Lang
Kate Larson
Peter Mcburney
Pericles Mitkas
Jinzhong Niu
David Pardoe
Zinovi Rabinovich
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar
Jeffrey Rosenschein
Alberto Sardinha
David Sarne
Onn Shehory
Andreas Symeonidis
Ioannis Vetsikas
Michael Wellman
Dongmo Zhang


Contact
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Please contact Christopher Kiekintveld (cdkiekintveld at utep.edu) or Onn
Shehory (onn at il.ibm.com) with any enquiries.


AMEC organizers