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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 16pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The Ninth International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition
(ANAC 2018)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Website:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2018/"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2018/</span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Held at IJCAI 2018 in
Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2018 as part of the IJCAI</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">competition track.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Motivation,
impact, and expected outcomes</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">The
Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC) is an international</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">tournament that has
been running since 2010 to bring together researchers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">from the automated
negotiation, multi-agent, and human-agent communities ANAC provides a unique
benchmark for evaluating practical negotiation</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">strategies in multi-issue domains.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">The
previous competitions have spawned novel research in AI in the field of
autonomous agent design which are available to the wider research community. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">This
year, we pose the following negotiation research challenges:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Repeated multilateral negotiation for
arbitrary domains</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> (<a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/genius/"><span style="color:black">Genius
framework</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Negotiation strategies for the Diplomacy game </span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">(<a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/~davedejonge/bandana"><span style="color:black">Bandana framework</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Human-agent negotiation</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> (<a href="http://people.ict.usc.edu/~mell/IAGO"><span style="color:black">IAGO
framework</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">We invite innovative
and novel agent strategies to compete in ANAC</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">2018. After the
competition, submitted agents will be made available to</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">the negotiation
research community as part of a negotiating agent</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">repository within the
aforementioned frameworks. Both Genius and all</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">agents thus submitted
will fall under the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/license.html"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">GNU license agreement</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> GPL</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">version 3. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The finalists are
very welcome to submit an article explaining their negotiation strategy to the
ACAN Workshop@AAMAS/IJCAI/ECAI/ICML 2018 and present their strategy at the
workshop, which will be held in conjunction with IJCAI in Stockholm. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Challenges
(details at </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">the </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/negotiation/index.php/Automated_Negotiating_Agents_Competition_(ANAC)"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">ANAC website</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(67,67,67)">1. </span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XDf2XqrDaytm1f4_AdVceedD5tfEjurn-bhQCUU5XGg/edit"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:normal">Repeated multilateral negotiation for arbitrary domains</span></a><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">In multilateral
negotiation league, entrants will to design and implement an intelligent
negotiating agent, which negotiates with two opponents and is able to learn
from its previous negotiations. The participants will develop their agents in
the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/genius/"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">GENIUS platform</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">. Challenges
regarding this league are to design winning strategies for bidding, opponent
modeling and bid acceptance strategies when negotiating repeatedly with agents
in a multilateral setting. More info </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XDf2XqrDaytm1f4_AdVceedD5tfEjurn-bhQCUU5XGg/edit"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:16pt 0in 4pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(67,67,67)">2. Negotiation
strategies for the Diplomacy game</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 3.85pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">In the Diplomacy game
league, entrants to the competition have to develop a negotiation algorithm for
the game of Diplomacy. Diplomacy is a strategy game for 7 players. Each player
has a number of armies and fleet positioned on a map of Europe and the goal is
to conquer half of the "Supply Centers". What makes this game very
interesting and different from other board games, however, is that players need
to negotiate with each other in order to play well. Players may team up and
create plans together to defeat other players.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Every participant in
this competition must implement a negotiation algorithm using </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/~davedejonge/bandana/"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">the BANDANA framework</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">. This negotiation
algorithm will then be combined with an existing non-negotiating agent (the
D-Brane Strategic Module) to form a complete negotiating Diplomacy player.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:16pt 0in 4pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(67,67,67)">3. Human-agent
negotiation</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The Human-Agent
Negotiation league <span style="background:white"> is proposed in order to
further explore the strategies, nuances, and difficulties in creating realistic
and efficient agents whose primary purpose is to negotiate with humans.
Previous work on human-agent negotiation has revealed the importance of
several features not commonly present in agent-agent negotiation, including
retractable and partial offers, emotion exchange, preference elicitation
strategies, favors-and-ledgers behavior, and myriad other topics. To
understand these features and better create agents that use them, this
competition is designed to be a showcase for the newest work in the negotiating
agent community.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">The
Human-Agent Negotiation competition will involve each </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">entrant <span style="background:white">submitting an agent that will be tested against human
subjects in a study run through the University of Southern California.
All agents must be compliant with </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://people.ict.usc.edu/~mell/IAGO"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">the IAGO</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://people.ict.usc.edu/~mell/IAGO"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">(Interactive Arbitration Guide Online) framework</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white"> and
API, which will allow standardization of the agents and efficient running of
subjects on MTurk. Agents will all be run on the same set of multi-issue
bargaining tasks.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">For
details, you can contact </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:mell@ict.usc.edu"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">mell@ict.usc.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background:white">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Prizes</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">The prize money will
be at least 1000 euros divided over the leagues. The prize will be shared among
the top agents.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Competition
Schedule</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Deadline for
submitting agents: <b>May 21st, 2018</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Please fill out the
intention form to participate </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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mailing list and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 4pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">References on ANAC</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Several papers have
been published about the setup and results of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">previous ANAC
competitions:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/negotiation/images/3/34/ANAC2010.pdf"><span style="color:black">The First Automated Negotiating Agents Competition
(ANAC 2010)</span></a> (<a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-24696-8_7"><span style="color:black">ext. link</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://mmi.tudelft.nl/sites/default/files/The%20Second%20Automated%20Negotiating%20Agents-pub.pdf"><span style="color:black">The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition
(ANAC2011)</span></a> (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30737-9_11"><span style="color:black">ext. link</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://mmi.tudelft.nl/sites/default/files/aij-anac2011-pub_0.pdf"><span style="color:black">Evaluating Practical Negotiating Agents: Results and
Analysis of the 2011 International Competition</span></a> (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2012.09.004"><span style="color:black">ext. link</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/tb1m13/pub/A_Baseline_for_Non-Linear_Bilateral_Negotiations-The_full_results_of_the_agents_competing_in_ANAC_2014.pdf"><span style="color:black">A Baseline for Non-Linear Bilateral Negotiations: The
full results of the agents competing in ANAC 2014</span></a> (<a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/399235/"><span style="color:black">ext.
link</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~baarslag/pub/The_Automated_Negotiating_Agents_Competition-2010-2015.pdf"><span style="color:black">The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition,
2010-2015</span></a> (<a href="http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2609"><span style="color:black">ext. link</span></a>)<span></span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 4pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Main Organising Committee:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University & Delft
University of Technology<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
(CWI)<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology<span></span></span></li>
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Technology<span></span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 4pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">League Organising Committee:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University & Delft
University of Technology<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
(CWI)<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Dave de Jonge, Western Sydney University<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Johnathan Mell, The University of Southern California<span></span></span></li>
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URL</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>
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please visit the competition webpage :</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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website: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://ii.tudelft.nl/anac/"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://ii.tudelft.nl/anac/</span></a><span></span></span></li>
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