The Eleventh
International Workshop on
Agent Mediated
Electronic Commerce
(AMEC 2009)
May 12, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
Organization &
Location
The eleventh AMEC workshop is held in conjunction with AAMAS-2009 (the Eighth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), in Budapest, Hungary. It will take place on May
12, 2009, preceding AAMAS 2009.
Aims and Focus
The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems in which
agents are deployed involves finding solutions to a large and diverse array of
problems, concerning individual agent behaviors, interaction, and collective
behavior. A wide variety of electronic commerce scenarios and systems, and
agent approaches to these, have been studied in recent years. These studies
suggest models that support the design and the analysis at both the level of
the single agent and the level of the multi-agent system.
This workshop will address both the agent level and the system
level, combining design and analysis aspects of electronic commerce. The
primary goal of this workshop is to continue to bring together novel work from
diverse fields as Computer Science, Game Theory, Economics, Artificial
Intelligence and Distributed Systems that focus on modeling, implementation and
evaluation of computational trading agents and institutions. We particularly
encourage work that addresses the computational and practical aspects of
agent-mediated electronic commerce along the following (non-limiting) topics:
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Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
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AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce
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Algorithmic mechanism design
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Auction and negotiation technology
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Automated shopping, trading, and contract management
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Computational aspects of economics, game theory, and voting
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Experience with e-commerce systems and markets
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Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
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Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts
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Learning and Intelligence aspects of trading agents
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Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
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Prediction/information markets
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Preferences and decision theory
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Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems
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Software and systems requirements, architectures, and
performance
Furthermore, this workshop will also welcome position papers
discussing central non-technical issues of agent-mediated electronic commerce.
For instance:
·
Business models and markets for AMEC
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Novel applications
·
Past and future of AMEC technologies
·
Technical, economic, social and policy opportunities and
challenges of AMEC
Preliminary Program
9:00-10:30 Auctions in Multi
Agents Systems
Koen Hindriks, Dmytro Tykhonov and Mathijs de Weerdt.
Approximating the Qualitative Vickrey Auction by a Negotiation Protocol
Mark Hoogendoorn and Maria Gini. Automated Analysis of Auction
Traces
Esther David and David Sarne. The Choice of Eliminating the
Uncertainty Cloud in Auctions
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Market and
Services based Approaches
Enrico Gerding, Kate Larson and Nicholas Jennings. Eliciting
Expert Advice in Service-Oriented Computing
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico Gerding and
Nicholas Jennings. Mechanism Design for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates from
Multiple Suppliers with Unknown Costs and Limited Precision
Sofia Ceppi and Nicola Gatti. A Study of Central Auction Based
Wholesale Electricity Markets
Yevgeniya Kovalchuk and Maria Fasli. A Demand-Driven Approach
for A Multi-Agent System in Supply Chain Management
12:30-14:00 Break
14:00-15:30 Game
Theoretic Approaches
Peter Stone, Gal Kaminka and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein. Leading a
Best-Response Teammate in an Ad Hoc Team
Julian Schvartzman, Michael Wellman. Exploring Large Strategy
Spaces in Empirical Game Modeling
Naoki Ohta, Vincent Conitzer, Ryo Ichimura, Yasuhumi Satoh,
Atsushi
Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo. Coalition Structure Generation Utilizing
Compact Characteristic Function Representations
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Resource
Allocation in Multi Agent System
Behnam Jalilzadeh, Léon Planken
and Mathijs de Weerdt. Mechanism Design for the Online Allocation of Items
without Monetary Payments
Sara Ramezani and Ulle Endriss. Nash Social Welfare in
Multiagent Resource Allocation
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and Yagil Engel. Incentive analysis of approximately
efficient allocation algorithms in Supply Chain Management
Closing
Submission Details
Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF
format at the following link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec2009
or by email to sarned@cs.biu.ac.il, with the exact subject line: "AMEC-XI
submission". Papers must be written in English, with a maximum length of
14 pages. Please format papers according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Templates for Word, WordPerfect and Latex are available. The receipt of
submissions will be acknowledged by email. Submitted papers will be reviewed by
the program committee.
All correspondence about submissions and contributions will be
to: David Sarne.
Important Dates
(tentative dates)
·
Paper submission: Feb 8, 2009
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Acceptance notification: March 6, 2009
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Camera ready due: March 15, 2009
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Workshop date: May 12, 2009
Publication
As in the past, selected AMEC XI papers will be invited for
publication in a Springer LNBIP volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in the
AMEC series.
Program Committee
* Alberto Sardinha, Carnegie Mellon University , USA
* Alex Rogers, Southampton University, UK
* David Pardoe, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia
* Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel
* John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA
* Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA), Spain
* Kate Larson, University of Waterloo, CA
* Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, USA
* Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, USA
* Sverker Janson, SICS, Sweden
* Tracy Mullen, Penn State University, USA
* Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
* Ariel Procaccia, Microsoft Israel R&D Center
* Sven Koenig, University of Southern California, USA
* Krishnen Vytelingum, Southampton University UK
* Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton, UK
* Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
* Minghua He, Aston University, UK
* William Walsh, CombineNet, USA
* Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA
* Steven Willmott, 3scale Networks, Spain
Workshop Location and
History
AMEC XI is collocated with the Eight International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2009),
in Budapest, Hungary. It will take place on May 12, 2009.
AMEC XI will build on the success of previous
workshops, namely: AMEC X, collocated with AAMAS-2008; AMEC IX, collocated with AAMAS-2007;
TADA/AMEC VIII, collocated with AAMAS-2006;
AMEC VII, collocated with AAMAS-2005; AMEC
VI, collocated with AAMAS'04; AMEC V, collocated with AAMAS'03; AMEC IV,
collocated with AAMAS'02; AMEC III, collocated with Agents'00; and AMEC
II, collocated with IJCAI'99. Compilations of the best workshop papers of
previous AMEC editions have been published as edited books by Springer, in the
LNCS / LNAI series.
AMEC V AMEC
VI AMEC
VII AMEC
VII AMEC
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Workshop organizers
Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn “at” il “dot”
ibm “dot” com
Department of Computer Science
Bar Ilan University,
sarned “at” cs “dot” biu “dot” ac “dot” il
Esther David
Department of Computer Science
Ashkelon Academic College
astrdod”at” acad “dot” ash-college “dot” ac “dot” il