<html><body><ul><p><font face="Arial">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 </font><a href="https://cisl.rpi.edu/humaine2020" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://cisl.rpi.edu/humaine2020</font></u></a><font face="Arial">.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>If this interests you, please register via this</font><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevOi1b7TqJXqDKIWGCAuoQ0O-DHPHNrtllt3ItUXL0QXVClQ/viewform" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> very simple form indicating your intent to participate</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> </font><b><font face="Arial">by Sunday March 8th</font></b><font face="Arial">. Further information about technical details can be found at </font><a href="https://cisl.rpi.edu/research/projects/humaine-human-multi-agent-immersive-negotiation" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://cisl.rpi.edu/research/projects/humaine-human-multi-agent-immersive-negotiation</font></u></a><font face="Arial">.<br><br>Feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may have:</font><br><br><font color="#424242" face="Arial">Rahul Divekar (</font><a href="mailto:divekr@rpi.edu"><u><font color="#1E7394" face="Arial">divekr@rpi.edu</font></u></a><font color="#424242" face="Arial">)</font><br><font color="#424242" face="Arial">Jeffrey O. Kephart (</font><a href="mailto:kephart@us.ibm.com"><u><font color="#1E7394" face="Arial">kephart@us.ibm.com</font></u></a><font color="#424242" face="Arial">)</font><br><font color="#424242" face="Arial">Hui Su (</font><a href="mailto:huisuibmres@us.ibm.com"><u><font color="#1E7394" face="Arial">huisuibmres@us.ibm.com</font></u></a><font color="#424242" face="Arial">)</font><br><font color="#424242" face="Arial">Maira Gatti de Bayser (</font><a href="mailto:mgdebayser@br.ibm.com"><u><font color="#1E7394" face="Arial">mgdebayser@br.ibm.com</font></u></a><font color="#424242" face="Arial">)</font><br><br></ul><font size="2">I hope you'll consider participating in what should be a really fun event!</font><br><br><font size="2">-- Jeff</font><br><br><br><font size="2">Jeff Kephart<br>Distinguished RSM, Symbiotic Cognitive Systems, IBM Research AI<br>IEEE Fellow and Member, IBM Academy of Technology<br>IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center<br>Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA<br>(914) 945-2540</font><BR>
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