[agents] CFP: ACAN 2015 Workshop @ AAMAS 2015 -- (Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations)

[Reyhan Aydogan]

Dear all,

I am sorry that there is a mistake in my previous email.

You can access the ACAN Web site by the following link:


   -  http://www.itolab.nitech.ac.jp/ACAN2015/index.html

Best regards,

Dr. Reyhan Aydogan

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Reyhan Aydogan <reyhan.aydogan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Call for Papers: The Eighth International Workshop on Agent-based Complex
> Automated Negotiations (ACAN2015)*
>
> http://www.itolab.nitech.ac.jp/tACAN2015/index.html
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>
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> To be held in conjunction with the 14th International Joint Conference on
> Autonomous Agents and
>
> Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2015: <http://www.aamas2015.com/en/>
> http://www.aamas2015.com/en/ )
>
>
> Important dates
>
> ·          February  11, 2015: Deadline for Submitting to Workshops
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> ·          March  10, 2015: Deadline for Announcing Accepted Papers
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> ·          March 19, 2015 : Deadline for Camera-Ready Papers
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> ·         May 4 or 5, 2015, ACAN workshop
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>
> Scope and Background
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>
> Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and are one of the
> emerging areas of research in the field of Autonomous Agents and
> Multi-Agent Systems. The complexity in an automated negotiation depends on
> several factors: the number of negotiated issues, dependencies between
> these issues, representation of the utility, negotiation protocol,
> negotiation form (bilateral or multi-party), time constraints, and so on.
> 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 strong interdependencies, real time
> constraints, etc. Many real world negotiation scenarios present one or more
> of the mentioned elements. Software agents can support the automation of
> complex negotiations, by negotiating on the behalf of their owners and
> providing adequate strategies to their owners to achieve realistic, win-win
> agreements. In order to provide solutions in such complex automated
> negotiation scenarios, research has focused on incorporating different
> technologies including search, CSP, graphical utility models, Bayesian
> nets, auctions, utility graphs, optimization and predicting and learning
> methods. The applications of complex automated negotiations could include
> e-commerce tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tools,
> collaboration tools, as well as knowledge discovery and agent learning
> tools.
>
> ACAN2015 will discuss, among others, the following aspects and topics of
> such complex automated negotiations within the field of Autonomous Agents
> and Multi-Agent Systems, which have distinct relationships with AAMAS main
> conference topics:
>
> -         Complex Automated Negotiations Frameworks and Mechanisms
>
> Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiations, High dimension Multi-Issue
> Negotiations, Large Scale Negotiations, Concurrent Negotiations, Multiple
> Negotiations, Sequential Negotiations, Negotiations under Asymmetric
> Information, and so on
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> -         Prediction of Opponent's Behaviours and Strategies in
> Negotiations
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> -         Simulation Models and Platforms for Complex Negotiations
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> -         Coordination Mechanisms for Complex Negotiations
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> -         Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
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> -         2-Sided Matching
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> -         Utility and Preference Representations in Negotiations
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> -         Computational Complexity of Multi-Issue Negotiations
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> -         Real-life Aspects of Electronic Negotiations
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> -       Negotiations with Humans, Negotiations in Social Networks etc.
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> -         Applications for Automated Negotiations (e.g. cloud computing,
> smart grid, electronic commerce etc.)
>
> A considerable number of researchers in various sub-communities of
> autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are actively working on these and
> related issues. They are, for instance, being studied in agent
> negotiations, multi-issue negotiations, auctions, mechanism design,
> electronic commerce, voting, secure protocols, matchmaking and brokering,
> argumentation, co-operation mechanisms and distributed optimization. The
> goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these
> communities to learn about each other's approaches to the complex
> negotiation problems, encourages the exchange of ideas between the
> different areas, and potentially fosters long-term research collaborations
> to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic
> applications.
>
>
>
> *Automated Negotiating Agents Competition Special Session (Tentative)*
>
> From 2010, ACAN is tightly cooperating with ANAC (Automated Negotiating
> Agents Competition). Based on the great success of previous ANAC, the
> ANAC2015 will be held at AAMAS2015. This year, we, ACAN, will have the ANAC
> special session, in which the finalists of ANAC will describe their
> negotiating agents. See the ANAC site for more details:
>
>
> http://mmi.tudelft.nl/negotiation/index.php/Automated_Negotiating_Agents_Competition_(ANAC)
>
>
> Submission
>
> Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style (see
> http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedingstemplates for more
> details) and should not be more than 8 pages long (excluding appendices).
> The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the topics
> described above. This year, the workshop will accept submissions of both
> full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages).
>
>
>
> Please submit your paper via EasyChair:
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>
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2015
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>
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> All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation at the workshop.
> Each paper will be reviewed by at least two PC members or experts in the
> field. Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being
> submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must
> reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this
> requirement are subject to rejection without review.
>
>
> Post-Proceeding Publication (to be confirmed) The extended version of the
> accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings (book) of the
> workshop, which will be published in Springer Studies of Computational
> Intelligence Series (http://www.springer.com/series/7092).  Organizing
> Committee:
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> ●     Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Organizing Chair),
>
> Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan,
>
> ●     Dr. Quan Bai (Organizing Chair),
>
> Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
>
> ●     Dr. Rafik Hadfi
>
> Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
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> ●     Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito
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> Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
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> ●     Prof. Dr. Minjie Zhang
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> University of Wollongong, Australia
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> ●     Dr. Fenghui Ren
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> University of Wollongong, Australia
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> ●     Dr. Reyhan Aydogan
>
> Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherland
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> Tentative Program Committee Members:
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> −      Prof. Dr. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics
> Institute, USA)
>
> −      Dr. Mark Klein (MIT, USA)
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> −      Prof. Dr. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
>
> −      Dr. Raz Lin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
>
> −      Prof. Dr. Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
>
> −      Prof. Dr. Catholjin Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The
> Netherlands)
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> −      Dr. Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK)
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> −      Dr. Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
>
> −      Prof. Dr. Xudong Luo (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
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> −      Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (UBB Cluj, Romania)
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> −      Dr. Lotzi Boloni (University Florida, United States)
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> −      Dr. Scott Buffett (National Research Council Canada)
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> −      Dr. Jiamou Liu, (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
>
> −      Dr. Bo An, (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
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> −      Dr. Chao Yu, (Dalian University of Technology, China)
>
> −      Dr Dayong Ye, (University of Wollongong, Australia)
>
> −      Dr. Susel Fernandez (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
>
> −      Dr. Tim Baarslag (University of Southampton/Nagoya Institute of
> Technology)
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> Contact persons:
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> ●     Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Organizing Chair, Primary Contact Person),
>
> Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan,
>
> E-mail: katfuji at cc.tuat.ac.jp
>
> ●     Dr. Quan Bai (Organizing Chair, Primary Contact Person),
>
> Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
>
> E-mail: quan.bai at aut.ac.nz
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