[agents] Call for Papers - ACAN 2019 Workshop held in conjunction with IJCAI 2019

[Reyhan Aydogan]

The  Twelfth International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated
Negotiations (ACAN2019) in conjunction with IJCAI 2019, Macau, August 2019

Theme : Human in the Automated Negotiation Loop

This workshop will have a special session of Automated Negotiating Agents
Competition
(ANAC), which will be held in conjunction with IJCAI2019.

Important dates
*Submission deadline: Apr 12, 2019*
Acceptance notification: May 10, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: May 24, 2019
ACAN2019: August 10-13, 2019.

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.

ACAN2019 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 Behaviors 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 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 2019.

Submission
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2019

Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style
(see
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 ACAN2019 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, Turkey

Dr. Di Wang (Organizing Co-chair)
Senior Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Moustafa (Organizing Co-chair)
Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Prof. Dr. Takanobu Otsuka (Organizing Co-chair)
Associate Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee Members:
−       Dr. Rafik Hadfi, (Monash University, Australia)
−       Dr. Valentin Robu (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
−       Dr. Tim Baarslag (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the
Netherlands)
−       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. Dr. Ivan Marsa Maestre (University of Alcara, Spain)
−       Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Lopez Carmona (University of Alcara, Spain)
−       Prof. Dr. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics
Institute, USA)
−       Prof. Susel Fernandez (University of Alcara, Spain)
−       Dr. Mark Klein (MIT, USA)
−       Prof. Dr. Catholjin Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands)
−       Prof. Dr. Xudong Luo (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
−       Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (UBB Cluj, Romania)
−       Dr. Scott Buffett (National Research Council Canada)
−       Dr. Jiamou Liu, (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
−       Dr. Bo An, (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
−       Dr. Dayong Ye, (Swinburne University, Australia)
−       Dr. Shaheen S. Fatima (Loughborough University, UK)
−       Dr. Victor Sanchez-Anguix (Coventry University, United Kingdom)
−       Prof. Dr. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
−       Prof. Dr. Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
−       Naoko Yamaguchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
−       Tomoyuki Nishida (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
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