<div dir="ltr"><br>=================================================================================<br>The Automated Negotiation League: Sequential Multi-deal Agent Negotiation <br><br>Challenge: Developing a negotiating agent for sequential multi-deal negotiation<br><br>Submission deadline: June 1st, 2025<br><br>Event: The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2025 as part of IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, Canada<br><br>Call for participation details: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ANLdocs">https://tinyurl.com/ANLdocs</a><br><br>
The Automated Negotiation League
website:
<a href="https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/">https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/</a>
<br>=================================================================================<br><br><br>====== Challenge ======<br><br>We invite everyone to submit a negotiation agent to The Automated Negotiation League, held at IJCAI 2025. This year, the challenge is to design a negotiation agent for sequential multi-deal negotiation. Your agent will encounter multiple opponents in sequence and is rewarded for the specific combination of the deals made in each negotiation. Therefore, the agent needs to take into account possible future deals, survey the available options, and beat other contestants by conceding efficiently and obtaining the best deals.<br><br><br>====== Event ======<br><br>The competition takes place during IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, Canada, from 16th to 22nd August, 2025. The winners can acquire travel grants to attend the competition at the IJCAI conference, and possibly give a brief presentation there.<br><br><br>====== Entrants ======<br><br>Entrants to the competition have to develop and submit an autonomous negotiating agent that runs on NegMAS: a Python-based negotiation platform in which you can develop general negotiating agents. The NegMAS based anl2025 module provides a method to run tournaments in the same settings as this year's ANL competition. For more information, follow this link: <a href="https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/">https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/</a><br>The performance of the agents will be evaluated in a tournament between all participants, where each agent is matched with other submitted agents.<br><br><br>====== Submission (Deadline: June 1, 2025) ======<br><br>The competition rules allow multiple entries from a single institution, but require each agent to be developed independently. Participants submit their agent source code through the following link: <a href="https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl">https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl</a><br><br><br>====== Important Dates ======<br><br>Submission deadline: June 1, 2025<br>Notification to finalists: June 15, 2025<br>Event: August 16th to 22rd, 2025<br> <br> <br>====== Questions and Answers ======<br><br>Participation details: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ANLdocs">https://tinyurl.com/ANLdocs</a><br>ANAC website: <a href="https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2025/">https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2025/</a><br>Get started on the ANL website: <a href="https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/">https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/</a> <br>Look at the FAQ <a href="https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/faq/">https://autoneg.github.io/anl2025/faq/</a> and feel free to ask further questions to us. <br><br>Send your questions to:<br> <a href="mailto:tamara.florijn@cwi.nl">tamara.florijn@cwi.nl</a> (main contact)<br> <a href="mailto:T.Baarslag@cwi.nl">T.Baarslag@cwi.nl</a><br> <a href="mailto:reyhan.aydogan@ozyegin.edu.tr">reyhan.aydogan@ozyegin.edu.tr</a><br> <a href="mailto:katfuji@cc.tuat.ac.jp">katfuji@cc.tuat.ac.jp</a></div>