[agents] The 16th International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition @IJCAI 2025 (Submission: 1st June, 2025)

[Tim Baarslag]

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*Call for participation:* The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition 2025

*Submission deadline:* 1st June, 2025

*Notification of Finalists:* 15th June, 2025

*Event held at:* IJCAI 2025, 16–22 August 2025, Montreal

*Prizes:* 6000+ euros for travel scholarships to IJCAI

*Website:* https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2025/

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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) 2025, 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:

* Automated Negotiation League: Design and build a negotiation agent for
sequential multi-deal negotiation. The agent encounters multiple opponents
in sequence and is rewarded for the specific combination of the deals made
in each negotiation. See: https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl

* Supply Chain Management League: Design and build an autonomous agent that
negotiates on behalf of a factory manager situated in a supply chain
management simulation. See: https://scml.cs.brown.edu/scml


We expect innovative and novel agent strategies will be developed, and the
submitted ANAC 2025 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to
the negotiation community.

There will be more than 6000 euros of prize money available in the form of
travel scholarships for students to attend the ANAC session to be held in
conjunction with IJCAI. For being eligible to apply for this scholarship,
you should participate in at least one of the leagues and submit your agent
on time.

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Website URL

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For more details, please visit the competition webpage:

https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2025/


*ANAC Board Members*

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

* Prof. Dr. Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) & Eindhoven
University of Technology

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

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

*League Organizers*

* Automated Agents League: Tamara Florijn (CWI/Utrecht University) & ANAC
Board Members

* Supply Chain Management League: Dr. Yasser Mohammad and Dr. Satoshi
Morinaga (NEC, AIST); Prof.Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, (TUAT,NEC-AIST); Prof. Dr.
Amy Greenwald (Brown University); Mark Klein (MIT)

*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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