[agents] The Automated Negotiation League - Call for Participation for the International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC)

[Tim Baarslag]

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The Automated Negotiation League: Agent Negotiation with Private 
Reservation Values

Challenge: Developing a negotiating agent that can deal with private 
reservation values

Submission deadline: 3rd April, 2024

Event: The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2024 at AAMAS 
2024, 6-10 May 2024, in Auckland, New Zealand

Call for participation details: http://tinyurl.com/ANAC2024docs

General website: https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2024/
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====== Challenge ======
We invite everyone to submit a negotiation agent to The Automated 
Negotiation League, held at AAMAS 2024. This year, the bilateral 
negotiation agent you have to design has access to its own utility and 
the utility of its opponent. However, the opponent's reservation value 
remains a secret.
The challenge is to estimate your opponent's reservation value as 
accurately as possible, and design an agent that beats other contestants 
by conceding efficiently and obtaining the best deals.


====== Event ======
The competition takes place during AAMAS 2024, May 6-10 2024, in 
Auckland, New Zealand. The prize money for the competition is at least 
$5000 in total, and student travel grants may be made available to 
attend the competition.


====== Entrants ======
Entrants to the competition have to develop and submit an autonomous 
negotiating agent that runs on NegMAS: a Python-based negotiation 
platform in which you can develop general negotiating agents. The NegMAS 
anl2024 module provides a method to run tournaments in the same settings 
as this year's ANL competition. For more information, follow this link: 
https://yasserfarouk.github.io/anl/

The performance of the agents will be evaluated in a tournament between 
all participants, where each agent is matched with other submitted agents.


====== Submission (Deadline: 3rd April, 2024)======
The competition rules allow multiple entries from a single institution, 
but require each agent to be developed independently. Participants 
submit their agent source code through the following link: 
https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl


====== Important Dates ======
Submission deadline: April 3, 2024
Notification to finalists: April 15, 2024
Event: May 6-10, 2024


====== Questions and Answers ======
Participation details: http://tinyurl.com/ANAC2024docs
ANAC website: https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2024/
Look at the FAQ http://tinyurl.com/ANAC2024NegMASFAQ and feel free to 
ask further questions to us.

Send your questions to:
     tamara.florijn at cwi.nl (main contact)
     T.Baarslag at cwi.nl
     reyhan.aydogan at ozyegin.edu.tr
     katfuji at cc.tuat.ac.jp