[agents] CfP International Workshop on Automated Negotiation, @FAIM Stockholm, July, 2018

[Reyhan Aydogan]

*The Eleventh International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN2018)
in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML 2018, Stockholm, July
2018http://www.itolab.nitech.ac.jp/ACAN2018/
<http://www.itolab.nitech.ac.jp/ACAN2018/>This workshop will have a special
session of Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC), which will be
held in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI 2018. - Important dates- Submission
deadline: April 23, 2018- Acceptance notification: May 20, 2018-
Camera-ready deadline: June 20, 2018- ACAN2018: July 13-15, 2018.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. These days AI systems have been developed by many different
companies and organizations. In the near future, if a lot of heterogeneous
AI systems are acting in a society, then we do need to have coordination
mechanisms based on automated negotiation technologies. It must be complex
and also autonomous because of the complexity of our society.The complexity
in an automated negotiation depends on several factors: the number of
negotiated issues, dependencies between these issues, representation of the
utility, negotiation procedural and protocol, negotiation form (bilateral
or multi-party), time constraints negotiation goals, 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, concurrent and
inter-depended negotiation, and 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.ACAN2018 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- Machine
Learning in Negotiations- Simulation Models and Platforms for Complex
Negotiations- Coordination Mechanisms for Complex Negotiations- Matchmaking
and Brokering Mechanisms- 2-Sided Matching- Utility and Preference
Elicitation Technologies in Negotiations- 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.- Knowledge management in
Automated Negotiations.- Moral consideration for automated negotiations.-
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 (ANAC) Special
Session From 2010, ACAN is tightly cooperating with ANAC (Automated
Negotiating Agents Competition). This year, we have an ANAC special
session, in which we plan to explain and discuss the research challenges
addressed in ANAC 2018.Submission:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2018
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2018> (tentative)Submissions
should conform to the ACM SIG style (see
http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html
<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>
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).Review Process and Acceptance Standards For gathering high quality
papers, each paper needs to be reviewed by at least three PC members or
experts in the field. Acceptance standards include its technical soundness,
novelty, impact and readability. The same publication procedure as our
previous workshops, we are planning to publish a Post-Workshop book for
ACAN2018 in Books Series Studies in Computational Intelligence, by
Springer. Also, we will assume that papers accepted should have full-paper
quality with small revisions for special issue in a journal (International
Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems journal,
Decision Support Systems Journal, and Group Decision and Negotiation
Journal- are some possibilities).Organizing Committee:Prof. Dr. Takayuki
Ito (Organizing Co-Chair, Primary Contact Person)Professor, Nagoya
Institute of Technology, Japan.Prof. Dr. Minjie Zhang (Organizing
Co-chair)Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia.Prof. Dr. Reyhan
Aydoğan (Organizing Co-chair)Assistant Professor. Özyeğin University,
TurkeyProgram Committee Members : - Prof. Takanobu Otsuka (Nagoya Institute
of Technology, Japan)- Dr. Rafik Hadfi, (Monash University, Australia)-
Prof. Dr. Valentin Robu (Heriot-Watt University, UK)- Dr. Tim Baarslag
(Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Netherlands)- Prof. Dr. Tokuro
Matsuo (Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan)- Prof. Dr. Juan
Ramon Velasco Perez (University of Alcala, Spain)- Dr. Quan Bai (Auckland
University of Technology, New Zealand)- Dr. Fenghui Ren (University of
Wollongong, Australia)- Dr. Chao Yu (Dalian University of Technology,
China)- Prof. Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan)- Prof. Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)- Prof.
Dr. Ivan Marsa Maestre (University of Alcala, Spain)- Prof. Dr. Miguel
Angel Lopez Carmona (University of Alcala, Spain)- Prof. Susel Fernandez
(University of Alcala, Spain)- Dr. Mark Klein (MIT, USA)- Prof. Dr.
Catholjin M. Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)-
Prof. Dr. Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK)- Dr. Gheorghe
Cosmin Silaghi (UBB Cluj, Romania)- Dr. Scott Buffett (National Research
Council Canada)- Dr. Jiamou Liu, (Auckland University of Technology, New
Zealand)- Prof. Dr. Bo An, (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)-
Dr. Shaheen S. Fatima (Loughborough University, UK)- Dr. Victor
Sanchez-Anguix (Coventry University, United Kingdom)- Dr. Juan Antonio
Rodriguez (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Spanish Research
Council, Spain)- Prof. Dr. Galit Haim, College of Management, Israel*
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