[agents] The 14th International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC)

[Reyhan Aydogan]

The 14th International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC)

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Call for participation: The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition 2023

Initial Submission: 1st April, 2023

Final Submission deadline: 1st May, 2023

Notification of Finalist : 15th May, 2023

Event: AAMAS 2023, 29th May-2nd June 2023, in London

Website: http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2023

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Motivation, impact, and expected outcomes

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We invite researchers to participate in the Automated Negotiating Agent
Competition (ANAC) 2023, which brings together researchers from the
negotiation community and provides a unique benchmark for evaluating
practical negotiation strategies in multi-issue domains. ANAC has the
following aims:

* to provide an incentive for the development of effective negotiation
strategies and protocols for bidding, accepting and opponent modeling for
different negotiation scenarios;

* to collect and develop a benchmark of negotiation scenarios, protocols
and strategies;

* 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;

* 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 introduce a variety of negotiation research
challenges:

* Repeated Agent Negotiation (GeniusWeb framework)
<https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2023/cfp/Automated_Negotiation_League_2023.pdf>


* Human-Agent Negotiation (IAGO framework) <https://jtmell.com/iago/>

* Supply Chain Management (NegMas framework)
<https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2023/cfp/scml2023cfp.pdf>


We expect innovative and novel agent strategies will be developed, and the
submitted ANAC 2023 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to
the negotiation community.

There will be a travel scholarship for students to attend the ANAC session
to be held in conjunction with AAMAS. For being eligible to apply for this
scholarship, you should participate in at least one of the leagues and
submit your agent on time. You need to fill in the following form till 1st
of April, 2023:

https://tinyurl.com/mrttxpvn


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Competition Schedule

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* Initial Deadline for submissions: 1st Apr, 2023

* Final Deadline for submissions: 1st May, 2023

* Announcement of finalists: 1st- 7th May, 2023 (tentative)

* ANAC 2023: 29th May-2nd June 2023, in London; jointly held with AAMAS 2023

Please check the website of individual leagues for their specific timeline:
http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2023/#leagues

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Website URL

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For more details, please visit the competition webpage:
http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2023/

ANAC Board Members

* Dr. Reyhan Aydoğan, Ozyegin University & Delft University of Technology

* Dr. Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) & Utrecht
University

* Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

* Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

League Organizers

* Automated Agents League: Mehmet Onur Keskin (Ozyegin University) + ANAC
Board Members

* Human-Agent League: Dr. Johnathan Mell (The University of Central Florida)

* Supply Chain Management League: Dr. Yasser Mohammad, Shinji Nakadai; Dr.
Satoshi Morinaga (NEC, AIST); Prof. Dr. Amy Greenwald, Dr. Enrique Areyan
Viqueir (Brown University); Dr. Mark Klein (MIT)

Sponsorship Chair

* Dr. Johnathan Mell, The University of Central Florida

* Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Scientific Advisory Board

* Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology (Chair)

* Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology

* Prof. Dr. Carles Sierra, IIIA/CSIC

* Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gratch, USC
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