acan 2012 THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENT-BASED COMPLEX AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS VALENCIA, SPAIN, JUNE 4-5, 2012

Accepted Papers

FULL PAPERS

Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Reyhan Aydogan, Vicente Julian and Catholijn Jonker. Analysis of Intra-Team Strategies for Teams Negotiating Against Competitor, Matchers, and Conceders

Fenghui Ren, Minjie Zhang and Quan Bai. Towards the Optimal Multi-Issue Negotiation by Considering Complex Negotiation Behaviors

Eunkyung Kim, Yu-Han Chang, Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu Ning and Luyan Chi. Negotiatio and Adaptation in Network Games

Colin R. Williams, Valentin Robu, Enrico Gerding and Nick Jennings. Towards a Platform for Concurrent Negotiations in Complex Domains

Enrique De La Hoz De La Hoz, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Mark Klein and Iván Marsa Maestre. Hierarchical Clustering and Linguistic Mediation Rules for Multiagent Negotiation

Reyhan Aydogan, Koen Hindriks and Catholijn Jonker. Multilateral Mediated Negotiation Protocols with Feedback

Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks, Mark Hendrikx, Alex Dirkzwager and Catholijn M. Jonker. Decoupling Negotiating Agents to Explore the Space of Negotiation Strategies

SHORT PAPERS

Khalid Mansour and Ryszard Kowalczyk. On Dynamic Negotiation Strategy for Concurrent Negotiation over Distinct Objects

Takanobu Otsuka and Takayuki Ito. Distance and Reputation: Evaluating user reputations from Real Distance in Social Network

Raiye Alemayehu and Takayuki Ito. Reducing The complexity of negotiations over interdependent issues

Ryo Kanamori, Nobuyasu Mizutani and Takayuki Ito. Agent-based Home Power Management Model considering the Instability of Renewable Energy

Rafik Hadfi and Takayuki Ito. Application of the Maximum Entropy Principle to Preferences Merging: Case of Utility Functions with Infinite Outcomes

Scope and Background

Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and have become an emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Complexity in automated negotiations depends on several factors: number of negotiated issues, dependency of issues, representation of utility, negotiation protocol, negotiation form (bilateral or multi-party), time constraints, etc. Complex automated negotiation scenarios are concerned with negotiation encounters where we may have for instance, a large number of agents, a large number of issues with a strong interdependency, non-monotonic utility functions, strong time constraints, etc. Many real world negotiation scenarios present one or more of the mentioned elements. Software agents can support to automate or simulate complex negotiations on the behalf of their owners, and to provide adequate strategies to their owners in order to achieve realistic and win-win agreements. To provide solutions in such complex automated negotiation scenarios, we need to incorporate different advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies including search, CSP, graphical utility models, Bayesian nets, auctions, utility graphs, optimization and predicting and learning methods. The application of complex automated negotiations could include e-commerce tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tools, collaboration tools, etc. We solicit papers on all aspects of such complex automated negotiations in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, including but not limited to:

• Complex Negotiations
• High dimension Multi-Issue Negotiations
• Concurrent Negotiations
• Multiple Negotiations
• Sequential Negotiations
• Bilateral Negotiations
• Multilateral negotiation
• Negotiation and Coordination Mechanisms
• Negotiation under Asymmetric Information
• Large Scale Negotiation
• Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
• Coordination for Local and Global Consistency
• 2-sided Matching
• Predicting Opponent's Behaviours in Negotiation.
• Utility models and Preference models
• Complexity aspects of Multi-issue negotiation
• Negotiation Simulation
• Applications

These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent systems. They are, for instance, being studied in agent negotiation, multi-issue negotiations, auctions, mechanism design, electronic commerce, voting, secure protocols, matchmaking & brokering, argumentation, and co-operation mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) Special Session

From 2010, ACAN is tightly cooperating with ANAC (Automated Negotiating Agents Competition). Based on the great success of ANAC2010 and ANAC2011, ANAC2012 will be held at AAMAS2012 at Valencia. In ANAC special session, the finalists of ANAC will describe their negotiating agents.

http://anac2012.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Organization

Organizers

Miquel Angel Lopez Carmona (University of Alcala, Spain)

Ivan Marsa-Maestre (University of Alcala, Spain)

Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Valentin Robu (University of Southampton, UK)

Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, UK)

Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata University, Japan)

Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya University, Japan)

Quan Bai (CSIRO, Australia)

Program Committee Members

Prof. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, USA)

Dr. Mark Klein (Principal Research Scientist, MIT, USA)

Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University, Japan)

Prof. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Dr. Fenghui Ren (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia)

Dr. Raz Lin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Prof. Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Prof. Catholin Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Dr. Enrico Gerding (Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK)

Dr. Koen Hindriks (Assistant Professor, Delft University, The Netherlands)

Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Associate Professor, UBB Cluj, Romania)

Dr. Lotzi Boloni (University Florida, United States)

Prof. Xudong Luo (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China)

Invited Talk

Professor Carles Sierra

Carles Sierra is Full Professor at the Institute of Research on Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Recently, he has been particularly active in the area of multi-agent systems, specially on methodological aspects and on trust modelling. He has participated in around forty research projects funded by the European Commission and the Spanish Government, and has published around three hundred papers in specialised scientific journals, conferences and workshops. He is member of the program committees of around a dozen of conferences and workshops per year, and is a member of seven journal editorial boards including AIJ, JAIR and JAAMAS. He has been General Chair of the conference Autonomous Agents 2000 in Barcelona, AAMAS 2009 in Budapest, and PC chair of AAMAS 2004. He has been the local chair for IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona. http://www.iiia.csic.es/~sierra

Submission

Submission page : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acan2012

Submissions should conform to the ACM SIG style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for more details) and should not be more than 8 pages long (excluding appendices). The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the topics described above. This year, the workshop will accept submissions of both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages).

Camera Ready

Both full and short camera ready papers will have a maximum of 8 pages.

Post-conference publications

Publication history

Springer publications

Journal publications

RRS2006 Special issue in Multiagent and Grid Systems

RRS2007 Special issue in the Journal of International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications

ACAN2008 Special issue on Journal of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems, 6(5-6), 2010

ACAN2009 Special issue in Computational Intelligence (to be published in 2012)

ACAN2010 and ACAN2011 Special issue in Decision Support System Journal (to be published in 2012-2013)

Previous Workshops

ACAN2008 ACAN2009 ACAN2010 ACAN2011