[agents] Call for Participation for International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition held in conjunction with IJCAI 2019

[Reyhan Aydogan]

The Tenth International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC)
Motivation, impact, and expected outcomes

The Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC) brings together
researchers from the negotiation community and provides a unique benchmark
for evaluating practical negotiation strategies in multi-issue domains.  The
ANAC  has the following aims:

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   to provide an incentive for the development of effective and efficient
   negotiation protocols and strategies for bidding, accepting and opponent
   modeling for different negotiation scenarios;
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   to collect and develop a benchmark of negotiation scenarios, protocols
   and strategies;
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   to develop a common set of tools and criteria for the evaluation and
   exploration of new protocols and new strategies against benchmark
   scenarios, protocols and strategies;
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   to set the research agenda for automated negotiation.


The previous competitions have spawned novel research in AI in the field of
autonomous agent design which are available to the wider research
community. This year, we would like to introduce a variety of negotiation
research challenges:


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   Agent Negotiation under Preference Uncertainty (Genius framework
   <http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2019/#genius>)
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   Negotiation Strategies for the Diplomacy Strategy Game (Bandana framework
   <http://www.iiia.csic.es/~davedejonge/bandana>)
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   Human-Agent Negotiation (IAGO framework
   <http://people.ict.usc.edu/~mell/IAGO>)
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   Werewolf Game (AIWolf Framework <http://aiwolf.org/en/>)
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   Supply Chain Management (NegoMas framework
   <http://www.yasserm.com/negmas/>)


We expect innovative and novel agent strategies will be developed, and the
submitted ANAC 2019 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to
the negotiation community. The researchers can develop novel negotiating
agents  and evaluate their agents by comparing their performance with the
performance of the ANAC 2019 agents.

Tentative Competition Schedule

February 20th - May 20th, 2019

Website URL

For more details, please visit the competition webpage :

http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2019/
ANAC Board Members

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   Dr. Reyhan Aydoğan, Ozyegin University & Delft University of Technology
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   Dr. Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
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   Prof. Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and
   Technology
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   Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

Demonstrations Chair

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   Johnathan Mell, The University of Southern California

Scholarship Chair

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   Faria Nassiri-Mofakham, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

League Organizers

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   Agent Negotiation under Preference Uncertainty: ANAC Board Members
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   Supply Chain Management: Dr. Yasser Mohammad, AIST; Shinji Nakadai and
   Dr. Satoshi Morinaga, NEC
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   Human-Agent Negotiation: Johnathan Mell, The University of Southern
   California
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   Diplomacy: Dr. Dave de Jonge, IIIA-CSIC
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   Werewolf Game: Dr. Hirotaka Osawa and Dr. Claus Aranha, University of
   Tsukuba

Scientific Advisory Board

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   Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology (Chair)
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   Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology
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   Prof. Dr. Carles Sierra, IIIA/CSIC
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   Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gratch, USC
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