[agents] Invitation to participate in HUMAINE -- a new human vs agent negotiation competition that runs in an immersive environment

[Jeff Kephart]

HUMAINE (HUman-MultiAgent Immersive NEgotiation) is a new human-agent
negotiation competition in which humans haggle over bundles of goods in
natural language with agents that are embodied as life-size avatars. The
full CfP can be found at https://cisl.rpi.edu/humaine2020.

We invite you to participate in this competition. As an agent developer,
all you need to do is to focus on interpreting English text as a
negotiation act, determine how you want to respond (e.g. counteroffer,
accept, reject), and translate your response into English plus a simple set
of avatar behavior directives. The platform will handle all aspects of
speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and the physical appearance of the avatars
for you.

The competition will be held online a few weeks in advance of IJCAI-PRICAI
2020 (which takes place in Yokohama in July), with cash prizes given to the
best agents. Then, at the conference, we will announce the results and
allow conference attendees to try their hand at negotiating with the top
agents.

If this interests you, please register via this very simple form indicating
your intent to participate by Sunday March 8th. Further information about
technical details can be found at
https://cisl.rpi.edu/research/projects/humaine-human-multi-agent-immersive-negotiation
.

Feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may have:

  Rahul Divekar (divekr at rpi.edu)
  Jeffrey O. Kephart (kephart at us.ibm.com)
  Hui Su (huisuibmres at us.ibm.com)
  Maira Gatti de Bayser (mgdebayser at br.ibm.com)


I hope you'll consider participating in what should be a really fun event!

-- Jeff


Jeff Kephart
Distinguished RSM, Symbiotic Cognitive Systems, IBM Research AI
IEEE Fellow and Member, IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA
(914) 945-2540
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