<html><body><p>To accommodate those whose plans have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have extended the deadline for participating in HUMAINE 2020 as follows:<br><br><b>Draft code submission deadline</b>: <b>Friday, May 8, 2020. </b><br><b>Final code submission deadline</b>:<b> Monday, June 8, 2020.</b><br><br>
<ul><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, with cash prizes given to the best agents. Then, at the conference (regardless of whether it turns out to be physical or virtual), 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 May 8th</font></b><font face="Arial">. May 8th is also the deadline by which time you need to submit an early draft of your agent, so that we can ensure that it receives and sends messages correctly and give you feedback accordingly. 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></ul><BR>
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