[agents] 2nd CFP: ACAN 2015 Workshop @ AAMAS 2015 - Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations

[Reyhan Aydogan]

(Apologies if you receive this CfP multiple times.)


*Call for Papers: The Eighth International Workshop on Agent-based Complex
Automated Negotiations (ACAN2015)*

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



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

·          March  10, 2015: Deadline for Announcing Accepted Papers

·          March 19, 2015 : Deadline for Camera-Ready Papers

·         May 4 or 5, 2015, ACAN workshop


Scope and Background



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

-         Prediction of Opponent's Behaviours and Strategies in Negotiations

-         Simulation Models and Platforms for Complex Negotiations

-         Coordination Mechanisms for Complex Negotiations

-         Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms

-         2-Sided Matching

-         Utility and Preference Representations in Negotiations

-         Computational Complexity of Multi-Issue Negotiations

-         Real-life Aspects of Electronic Negotiations

-       Negotiations with Humans, Negotiations in Social Networks etc.

-         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:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2015



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:

●     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

●     Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

●     Prof. Dr. Minjie Zhang

University of Wollongong, Australia

●     Dr. Fenghui Ren

University of Wollongong, Australia

●     Dr. Reyhan Aydogan

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherland






Tentative Program Committee Members:

−      Prof. Dr. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics
Institute, USA)

−      Dr. Mark Klein (MIT, USA)

−      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)

−      Dr. Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK)

−      Dr. Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

−      Prof. Dr. Xudong Luo (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

−      Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (UBB Cluj, Romania)

−      Dr. Lotzi Boloni (University Florida, United States)

−      Dr. Scott Buffett (National Research Council Canada)

−      Dr. Jiamou Liu, (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

−      Dr. Bo An, (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)

−      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)






Contact persons:



●     Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Organizing Chair, Primary Contact Person),

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan,

E-mail: katfuji at cc.tuat.ac.jp

●     Dr. Quan Bai (Organizing Chair, Primary Contact Person),

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

E-mail: quan.bai at aut.ac.nz