[agents] ACAN2012 Extended Submission Deadline

[Miguel Angel Lopez Carmona]

!! The submission deadline has been extended !!

* Paper submission deadline: March 13th 2012 *


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** CALL FOR PAPERS - ACAN 2012
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** THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENT-BASED COMPLEX AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS
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** AAMAS 2012 Valencia, Spain June 4-5
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   Website -             http://www2.uah.es/acan2012
   Submissions -    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2012

To be held in conjunction with the 10th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012) Valencia, Spain
This workshop will be co-organised in conjunction with the Third International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2012). 

Important dates
   March 27, 2012 - Acceptance Notification
   June 4-5 2012 - AAMAS 2012 Workshops
   
Submissions      
Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for more details). The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the topics described above. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages).

CFP
Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and have become an emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Complexity in automated negotiations depends on several factors: number of negotiated issues, dependency of issues, representation of utility, negotiation protocol, negotiation form (bilateral or multi-party), time constraints, etc. Complex automated negotiation scenarios are concerned with negotiation encounters where we may have for instance, a large number of agents, a large number of issues with a strong interdependency, non-monotonic utility functions, strong time constraints, etc. Many real world negotiation scenarios present one or more of the mentioned elements. Software agents can support to automate or simulate complex negotiations on the behalf of their owners, and to provide adequate strategies to their owners in order to achieve realistic and win-win agreements. To provide solutions in such complex automated negotiation scenarios, we need to incorporate different advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies including search, CSP, graphical utility models, Bayesian nets, auctions, utility graphs, optimization and predicting and learning methods. The application of complex automated negotiations could include e-commerce tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tools, collaboration tools, etc. We solicit papers on all aspects of such complex automated negotiations in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, including but not limited to:

* Complex Negotiations
* High dimension Multi-Issue Negotiations
* Concurrent Negotiations
* Multiple Negotiations
* Sequential Negotiations
* Bilateral Negotiations
* Multilateral negotiation
* Negotiation and Coordination Mechanisms
* Negotiation under Asymmetric Information
* Large Scale Negotiation
* Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
* Coordination for Local and Global Consistency 
* 2-sided Matching
* Predicting Opponent's Behaviours in Negotiation.
* Utility models and Preference models
* Complexity aspects of Multi-issue negotiation
* Negotiation Simulation
* Applications

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications. In addition, from 2010, ACAN is tightly cooperating with ANAC (Automated Negotiating Agents Competition). Based on the great success of ANAC2010 and ANAC2011, ANAC2012 will be held at AAMAS2012 at Valencia. The finalists of the competition will present and describe their negotiating agents in ACAN2012. 

Post-proceedings and Past Special Issues

Studies in Computational Intelligence Series (Springer):
   Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiation Mechanisms in Multiagent Systems
   Rational, Robust and Secure Negotiations in Multiagent Systems
   Advances in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations
   Innovations in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations
   New Trends in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations
Journals and Special Issues
   RRS2006 Special issue in Multiagent and Grid Systems
   RRS2007 Special issue in the Journal of International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications
   ACAN2008 Special issue on Journal of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems, 6(5-6), 2010
   ACAN2009 Special issue in Computational Intelligence (to be published in 2012)
   ACAN2010 and ACAN2011 Special issue in Decision Support System Journal (to be published in 2012-2013)

Organizers
   Miquel Angel Lopez Carmona (University of Alcala, Spain) Contact: miguelangel.lopez at uah.es
   Ivan Marsa-Maestre (University of Alcala, Spain) Contact: ivan.marsa at uah.es
   Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
   Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)
   Valentin Robu (University of Southampton, UK)
   Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, UK)
   Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata University, Japan)
   Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)
   Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
   Quan Bai (CSIRO, Australia)
Program Committe
   Prof. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, USA)
   Dr. Mark Klein (Principal Research Scientist, MIT, USA)
   Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University, Japan)
   Prof. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Dr. Fenghui Ren (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia)
   Dr. Raz Lin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
   Prof. Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 
   Prof. Catholin Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
   Dr. Enrico Gerding (Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK)
   Dr. Koen Hindriks (Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
   Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Associate Professor, UBB Cluj, Romania)
   Dr. Lotzi Boloni (University Florida, United States)
Dr. Miguel Ángel López Carmona
Subdirector Escuela Politécnica Superior / Vice Dean Polytechnic School
Escuela Politécnica Superior, Despacho 235(Subdirección) 
Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (28871), Madrid, Spain

Visiting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management
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