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style='margin-left:20.9pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#006699;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></h1> <h1 align=center style='margin-left:20.9pt;text-align:center'><span lang=NL style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#006699;mso-ansi-language:NL'>(AMEC 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></h1> <h3 align=center style='margin-left:20.9pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>May 12, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 align=center style='margin-left:20.9pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Budapest, Hungary<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Organization &amp; Location<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:22.3pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>The eleventh AMEC workshop is held in conjunction with <strong><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/"><span style='color:#006699'>AAMAS-2009</span></a> </span></strong>(the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)<strong><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, in Budapest, Hungary. It will take place on May 12, 2009</span></strong>, preceding AAMAS 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Aims and Focus<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-top:.05in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.7pt;margin-left: 20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:.05in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.7pt;margin-left: 20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>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: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Agency and contract theory in e-commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Algorithmic mechanism design <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Auction and negotiation technology<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Automated shopping, trading, and contract management <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Computational aspects of economics, game theory, and voting <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Experience with e-commerce systems and markets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Learning and Intelligence aspects of trading agents<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Prediction/information markets <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Preferences and decision theory <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Furthermore, this workshop will also welcome position papers discussing central non-technical issues of agent-mediated electronic commerce. For instance:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Business models and markets for AMEC <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Novel applications <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Past and future of AMEC technologies <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Technical, economic, social and policy opportunities and challenges of AMEC <o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h2> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Preliminary Program</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>9:00-10:30 Auctions in Multi Agents Systems<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Koen Hindriks, Dmytro Tykhonov and Mathijs de Weerdt. Approximating the Qualitative Vickrey Auction by a Negotiation Protocol<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Mark Hoogendoorn and Maria Gini. Automated Analysis of Auction Traces<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Esther David and David Sarne. The Choice of Eliminating the Uncertainty Cloud in Auctions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>10:30-11:00 Break<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>11:00-12:30 Market and Services based Approaches <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Enrico Gerding, Kate Larson and Nicholas Jennings. Eliciting Expert Advice in Service-Oriented Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico Gerding and Nicholas Jennings. Mechanism Design for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates from Multiple Suppliers with Unknown Costs and Limited Precision<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Sofia Ceppi and Nicola Gatti. A Study of Central Auction Based Wholesale Electricity Markets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Yevgeniya Kovalchuk and Maria Fasli. A Demand-Driven Approach for A Multi-Agent System in Supply Chain Management<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>12:30-14:00 Break<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>14:00-15:30 Game Theoretic<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Peter Stone, Gal Kaminka and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein. Leading a Best-Response Teammate in an Ad Hoc Team<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Julian Schvartzman, Michael Wellman. Exploring Large Strategy Spaces in Empirical Game Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Naoki Ohta, Vincent Conitzer, Ryo Ichimura, Yasuhumi Satoh, Atsushi<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo. Coalition Structure Generation Utilizing Compact Characteristic Function Representations<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>15:30-16:00 Break<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>16:00-17:30 Resource Allocation in Multi Agent System<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Behnam Jalilzadeh, Léon Planken and Mathijs de Weerdt. Mechanism Design for the Online Allocation of Items without Monetary Payments<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Sara Ramezani and Ulle Endriss. Nash Social Welfare in Multiagent Resource Allocation<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and Yagil Engel. Incentive analysis of approximately efficient allocation algorithms in Supply Chain Management<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'>Closing<span lang=HE dir=RTL><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h2> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Submission</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Details</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:22.3pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format at the following link <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec2009"><span style='color:#006699;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec2009</span></a> or by email to sarned@cs.biu.ac.il, with the exact subject line: &quot;AMEC-XI submission&quot;. Papers must be written in English, with a maximum length of 14 pages. Please format papers according to the <a href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Springer LNCS </span><span style='color:#006699;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Style</span></a>. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>All correspondence about submissions and contributions will be to: <a href="mailto:sarned@cs.biu.ac.il">David Sarne</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Important Dates (tentative dates)<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><s><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Paper submission: Feb 8, 2009</span></s><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><s><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Acceptance notification: March 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></s></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><s><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Camera ready due:&nbsp; March 15, 2009</span></s><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:56.9pt;text-indent:-.25in;tab-stops:list 56.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;color:#006699'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Workshop date: May 12, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Publication<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>As in the past, selected AMEC XI papers will be invited for publication in a Springer LNBIP volume, in a <a href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html"><span style='color:#006699'>format</span></a> similar to previous workshops in the AMEC series.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Program Committee <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>* Alberto Sardinha,&nbsp;&nbsp; Carnegie Mellon University , USA<br> * Alex Rogers, Southampton University, UK<br> * David Pardoe, University of Texas at Austin, USA<br> * Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia<br> * Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel<br> * John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA<br> * Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain<br> * Kate Larson, University of Waterloo, CA<br> * Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, USA<br> * Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br> * Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, USA<br> * Sverker Janson, SICS, Sweden<br> * Tracy Mullen, Penn State University, USA<br> * Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan<br> * Ariel Procaccia, Microsoft Israel R&amp;D Center<br> * Sven Koenig, University of Southern California, USA<br> * Krishnen Vytelingum, Southampton University UK<br> * Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton, UK<br> * Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br> * Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK <br> * Minghua He, Aston University, UK<br> * William Walsh, CombineNet, USA<br> * Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA<br> * Steven Willmott, 3scale Networks, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Workshop Location and History <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>AMEC XI is collocated with the Eight International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (<a href="http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/"><span style='color:#006699'>AAMAS-2009</span></a>), in Budapest, Hungary. It will take place on May 12, 2009.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699;font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>AMEC XI will build on the success of previous workshops, namely: <a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~shechory/AMEC_2008/"><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>AMEC X</span></a>, collocated with <a href="http://www.ifaamas.org/AAMAS/aamas08/"><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>AAMAS-2008</span></a>; <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/~jar/amecix/"><span style='color:#006699'>AMEC IX</span></a>, </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>collocated<strong><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> with <a href="http://www.aamas2007.org/"><span style='color:#006699'>AAMAS-2007;</span></a> <a href="http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/mfasli/eventorganisation/TADA-AMEC-06/TADA-AMEC06.htm"><span style='color:#006699'>TADA/AMEC VIII</span></a>, collocated with <a href="http://www.ifaamas.org/AAMAS/aamas06/"><span style='color:#006699'>AAMAS-2006;</span></a> AMEC VII, collocated with <a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/aamas2005/"><span style='color:#006699'>AAMAS-2005;</span></a> <a href="http://www.ana.lcs.mit.edu/peyman/amecvi.htm"><span style='color:#006699'>AMEC VI</span></a><u>,</u> collocated with <a href="http://www.ifaamas.org/AAMAS/aamas04/"><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'>AAMAS'04</span></a>; 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Designing Mechanisms and Systems" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_18"></span><![endif]></span></a><span style='font-size: 6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:20.9pt;line-height:7.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-540-67773-4">AMEC II</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>                                                </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>          </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-540-41749-1">AMEC III</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                    </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>                </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-540-00327-4">AMEC IV</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin-left:20.9pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#006699'>Workshop organizers<o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~shechory/"><span style='color:#006699'>Onn Shehory</span></a> <br> IBM Haifa Research Lab <br> <a href="mailto:onn@il.ibm.com"><span style='color:#006699'>onn  at il  dot ibm  dot com</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";color:#006699;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~sarned/">David Sarne</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Department of Computer Science<br> Bar Ilan University,<br> <a href="mailto:sarned@cs.biu.ac.il">sarned  at cs  dot biu  dot ac  dot il</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Esther David<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'>Ashkelon Academic College<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:17.85pt'><u><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#006699'><a href="mailto:astrdod@acad.ash-college.ac.il"><span style='color:#006699'>astrdod at acad  dot ash-college  dot ac  dot il</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 20.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; color:#006699'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>