[agents] CFP: AMEC/TADA @ AAMAS 2017

[Sofia Ceppi]

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Preliminary Call for papers

A M E C / T A D A 2017

19th International Workshop on
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and
Trading Agents Design and Analysis
http://www.sofiaceppi.com/AMECTADA2017/
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Held in conjunction with AAMAS 2017
May, 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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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 modelling, 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 2017, 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 7
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 2
Workshop: May 8 or May 9


*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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amectada2017).
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
The University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
sceppi at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk

Chen Hajaj
Vanderbilt University
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
chen dot hajaj at vanderbilt dot edu

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

Esther David
Department of Computer Science
Ashkelon Academic College
astrdod at acad.ash-college.ac.il

Valentin Robu
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems
V.Robu "at" hw.ac.uk




*Contact

Please contact Sofia Ceppi (sceppi at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk) with
any enquiries.