[agents] **Revised Deadline** CFP: 15th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2013) @ AAMAS 2013

[Sebastian Stein]

NOTE: The submission deadline has been revised to February 8.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic
Commerce (AMEC 2013)

Organised at the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013)

May 6 or 7, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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OVERVIEW:

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 


IMPORTANT DATES:

February 8, 2013:   Deadline for submission of contributions to workshops
March 1, 2013: Paper acceptance/rejection notification

PUBLICATION:

As in the past, selected AMEC XV papers will be invited for publication in a
Springer LNBIP volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in the AMEC
series, together with selected papers from the Trading Agents Analysis and
Design (TADA) 2013 workshop.
	

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

For further details (and updated information), please see the workshop
website at:

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ss2/amec2013/


CONTACT:

Any enquiries can be sent to the organisers via the email:
amec2013 at easychair.org


The AMEC 2013 organisers
Onn Shehory, Esther David, Valentin Robu, Sebastian Stein