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<div class="">I wanted to forward on this call for participation in the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition. I think this group may be specifically interested in the Human-Agent League. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions!</div>
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<div class="">Johnathan Mell</div>
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<div class="">University of Southern California</div>
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<span class="" style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Cambria" class=""><u class="">The Eleventh International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition
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<span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Cambria" class="">Motivation, impact, and expected outcomes</font></span></h4>
<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Cambria" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Automated
Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC) brings together researchers from the negotiation community and provides a unique benchmark for evaluating practical negotiation strategies in multi-issue domains. </span><span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The
ANAC has the following aims:</span></font></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Cambria" class="">to provide an
incentive for the development of effective and efficient negotiation protocols and strategies for bidding, accepting and opponent modeling for different negotiation scenarios;</font></span></div>
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<div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Cambria" class="">to collect and
develop a benchmark of negotiation scenarios, protocols and strategies;</font></span></div>
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set of tools and criteria for the evaluation and exploration of new protocols and new strategies against benchmark scenarios, protocols and strategies;</font></span></div>
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agenda for automated negotiation.</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Cambria" class=""><b class=""><u class=""><span class="" style="line-height: normal;">The ANAC 2020 Human-Agent League - Call for Participation</span></u></b><br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Cambria" class="">The Human-Agent League of ANAC focuses on human-like negotiation. This can included real-world tactics such as exchanging favors, lying about preferences, or hard-bargaining techniques. All of these strategies serve
humans well in real-world negotiation, and this league aims to show the similarities (and differences) that can occur when artificial agents engage directly with humans and use similar techniques. Because the 2020 Challenge involves <i class="">repeated</i> negotiation,
agent designers must also balance short-term and long-term strategies to ensure that they “grow the pie” and receive the highest amounts of points.</font></div>
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<p class="" style="margin: 0.25in 0in 4pt; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><font face="Cambria" class="">IAGO — Interactive Arbitration Guide Online</font></b></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class="">The League is conducted on the IAGO platform. IAGO is a human-agent negotiation platform that allows researchers to rapidly develop agents that can adopt a number
of “human-like” strategies. By enabling new communication channels (such as emotions and “cheap talk”), agents and humans can engage in negotiation in a more realistic and real-world fashion. IAGO is a web-based Java platform that allows human participants
to negotiation with agents and is compatible with online subject pools such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. For more information on IAGO, please visit its website—<a href="https://myiago.com" class="">https://myiago.com</a>.</font></div>
<p class="" style="margin: 0.25in 0in 4pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class=""><b class="">How to Participate</b><b class=""></b></font></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class="">Please visit <a href="https://myiago.com/IAGO" class="">https://myiago.com/IAGO</a> and fill out the registration form as early as possible to download the source
materials for IAGO. You will be contacted with submission details closer to the deadline.</font></div>
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<div class=""><b class=""><font face="Cambria" class="">Submission:</font></b></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class="">Submission deadline: 1 May 2019, 23:59 UTC-12</font></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class="">Notification to winner(s): 1 June 2019</font></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Cambria" class="">Event: IJCAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan (11-17 July 2020)</font><font class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></font></div>
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