[agents] 2nd CFP: AMEC/TADA Workshop @ AAMAS 2014 - EXTENDED DEADLINE (10th February)

[Sofia Ceppi]

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Call for papers
A M E C / T A D A 2014
16th International Workshop on
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and
Trading Agents Design and Analysis
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Held in conjunction with AAMAS 2014
May 5/6, 2014, Paris, France
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/vr2/amectada2014/
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***NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE***


*Overview

The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems and automated trading agents
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 multi-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.
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
markets. We particularly encourage submissions that address the computational and practical
aspects of agent-mediated electronic commerce and automated trading agents 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
- Empirical evaluation of human-agent trading
- 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
- Mechanisms for unreliable, dynamic and asynchronous environments
- Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
- Prediction/information markets
- Preferences and decision theory
- Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems
- Design of trading agents in decentralised power markets
- Incentive mechanisms for smart energy grids
- Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance
- TAC agents or analysis of TAC competitions

Furthermore, in 2014, AMEC/TADA aims to explore some new frontiers in electronic commerce
research, including:
- Mobile commerce
- Mobile advertising
- Advertising and trading through social networks


*Important dates and deadlines

Deadline for the submission of full papers (EXTENDED): February 10
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 1
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: March 19
Workshop: May 5 or 6


*Publication

As in the past, we aim to invite selected AMEC/TADA 2014 papers for publication in a Springer
LNBIP volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in the AMEC/TADA series.


*Submission instructions

Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format on EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amectada2014). 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.
Note: Workshop attendees need not register for the main AAMAS conference, but are
encouraged to do so.


*Program chairs

Onn Shehory
c/o Tel Aviv site
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

Valentin Robu
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
vr2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Sofia Ceppi
Microsoft Research
soceppi at microsoft.com

Ioannis Vetsikas
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos"
ivetsikas at iit.demokritos.gr


*Contact

Please contact Valentin Robu (vr2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk) or Sofia Ceppi (soceppi at microsoft.com)
with any enquiries.