[agents] AMEC / TADA 2015 CFP (@AAMAS 2015)

[Ioannis Vetsikas]

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Preliminary Call for papers

A M E C / T A D A 2015

17th International Workshop on
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and
Trading Agents Design and Analysis

http://www.sofiaceppi.com/AMECTADA2015/
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Held in conjunction with AAMAS 2015
May 4-8, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
The AMEC/TADA workshop will take place on May 4 or 5
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*Overview

This year, AMEC/TADA workshop encourages submission of preliminary work,
novel works and papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to
other major venues in our field. Papers submitted elsewhere will not be
considered for any archival post-proceedings publication. The sole
criteria for acceptance of any paper will be scientific quality and
relevance, and interest to the workshop audience. 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 or papers presented/to be submitted at a conference elsewhere, 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 2015, AMEC/TADA aims to explore some new frontiers in
electronic commerce research, including (but not limited to):
- Mobile commerce
- Mobile advertising
- Advertising and trading through social networks
- Service-oriented agent technologies


*Important dates and deadlines

Deadline for the submission of full papers: February 11
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 10
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: March 19
Workshop: May 4 or 5


*Publication

Publication is optional. Therefore, as this year, AMEC/TADA workshop
encourages beyond completed works also submission of preliminary work and
papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to other major
venues in our field; while all papers will be included in the AAMAS
workshop (non-archival) proceedings, only accepted papers which will not
have been published and which their authors have explicitly expressed
their willing to be included in Springer LNBIP volume will be included in
this volume. The published papers will have 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
(excluding references). 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.


*Workshop Organizers

Sofia Ceppi
Microsoft Research
soceppi at microsoft.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

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


*Contact

Please contact Esther David (astrdod at acad.ash-college.ac.il) with any
enquiries.