The tenth AMEC workshop is held in conjunction with AAMAS-2008
(the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems), in
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:
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Business models and markets
for AMEC
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Novel applications
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Past and future of AMEC
technologies
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Technical, economic, social
and policy opportunities and challenges of AMEC
Nine technical papers have been accepted for presentation at
AMEC 2008. The workshop program consists of three technical sessions in which
papers will be presented and discussed, and one panel and discussion session. A
preliminary program is shown below. Please note that allocations within the
program are subject to change.
Session 1: Negotiation
- Towards a Quality Assessment Method for Learning Preference
Profiles in Negotiation,
Koen Hindriks and Dmytro Tykhonov
- Reasoning and Negotiating with Complex Preferences Using
CP-nets,
Reyhan Aydogan, Nuri Tasdemir
and Pinar Yolum
- Towards Automated Bargaining in Electronic Markets: a
Partially Two-Sided Competition Model,
Nicola Gatti, Alessandro Lazaric and Marcello Restelli
Session 2: Tasks and Prices
- A Multiagent Recommender System with
Task Agent Specialization,
Fabiana Lorenzi, Fabio Arreguy Camargo Correa, Ana L. C.
Bazzan, Mara Abel and Francesco Ricci
- Preventing Under-Reporting in Social Task Allocation,
Mathijs de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang
- Multi-attribute Regret-based Dynamic Pricing,
Janyl Jumadinova and Prithviraj Dasgupta
Session 3: Auctions
- On the Economic Effects of Competition between Double Auction
Markets,
Kai Cai, Jinzhong Niu and Simon Parsons
- Using Priced Options to Solve the Exposure Problem in
Sequential Auctions,
Lonneke Mous, Valentin Robu and Han La Poutre
- Using a Memory Test to Limit a User to One Account,
Vincent
Conitzer
Session 4: Panel Discussion
- TBD
Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF
format at the following link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amec_08
or by email to Onn Shehory
(email, see below), with the exact subject line: "AMEC-X submission".
In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract, with the following
information: title of paper; names and affiliations of authors; name, email,
snail mail, phone number, and fax number of primary contact; and abstract. The
same information should be included on the first page of submitted papers.
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: Onn Shehory.
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Paper submission (new date!):
February 1, 2008
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Acceptance notification:
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Camera ready due:
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Workshop date: 13 May, 2008
As in the past, selected AMEC X papers will be invited for
publication in a Springer LNCS/LNAI volume, in a format similar to previous workshops in the
AMEC series.
Chris Brooks,
Enrico Gerding,
Vincent Conitzer,
John Debenham,
Frank
Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ulle Endriss,
Amy Greenwald,
Sverker
Janson, SICS, Sweden
Kate Larson,
Jeff Rosenschein,
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar,
IIIA - CSIC,
William Walsh, CombineNet Inc,
Michael Wellman,
Mike Wooldridge,
Shaheen Fatima,
Julian
Padget,
David
Pardoe,
Simon
Parsons,
Alberto
Sardinha, ScD - Computer Science -
AMEC X is collocated with the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2008),
in
AMEC X will build on the success of previous workshops, namely: 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.
Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn “at” il
“dot” ibm “dot” com
Han La Poutré
CWI (Netherlands Research Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science)
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
hlp@cwi.nl
and:
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab
onn “at” il
“dot” ibm “dot” com