[AISWorld] CfP: Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2011)

Wolf Ketter WKetter at rsm.nl
Tue Mar 1 03:14:53 EST 2011 

Dear Colleagues,

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Paper deadline: MARCH 14,2011.

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** Format should follow IJCAI author's guide with up to 8 pages**
** Papers should be submitted through the TADA'11 submission system 
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tada11)**


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Call for Papers
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Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2011)
http://issel.ee.auth.gr/tada11

July 16th, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC10)


Important Dates and Deadlines:
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- Electronic submission of full papers:  		March 14, 2011
- Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: 		April 25, 2011
- Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: 		May 16, 2011
- TADA-2011 workshop:                    		July 16th, 2011


Scope:
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The study and design of trading agents are prominent application areas 
in artificial intelligence, since they challenge models of rational 
decision-making, and have interesting potential benefits for electronic 
commerce. To date, a broad range of trading scenarios and agent 
approaches have been studied, creating an extensive and rich research 
area. The workshop focuses on the design and evaluation of trading 
agents. Papers on trading agent architectures, decision making 
algorithms, theoretical analysis, empirical evaluations of agent 
strategies in negotiation scenarios, game-theoretic analyses, trading 
mechanisms and market architectures are all within the scope of the 
workshop.
The TADA workshop series traditionally (from 2003 on) coincides with the 
finals of the Trading Agent Competition (http://www.sics.se/tac/), and 
many of the contestants participate in the workshop venue.


Topics of interest:
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We encourage submissions on, but not limited to:
	- Distributed (scalable) algorithmic mechanism design
	- Mechanisms for unreliable, dynamic and asynchronous environments
	- Mechanisms for incomplete and/or imperfect information environments
	- Mechanisms for information goods and services
	- Mechanisms for security, privacy, accounting, verification and auditing
	- Distributed (agent and mechanism) learning models
	- Agent strategies in multi-institutional environments
	- Economic and game theoretic specification, design and analysis
	- Bargaining, voting and auction mechanisms
	- Distributed reputation and trust mechanisms
	- Agents that support bidding and negotiation
	- Empirical evaluation of human-agent trading
	- Simulation and evaluation of properties of novel and complex mechanisms
	- Implemented agent-mediated electronic-commerce systems


Submission Instructions:
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- Full papers. 	
Full papers should be 8 two-column pages, including references. 
Manuscripts are expected to be in English, and should be in PDF format. 
Author guidelines can be found at: 
http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/call_for_papers.

- Short papers. 	
We invite the submission of *short papers* (up to 4 pages) related to 
TAC competitions to be presented at the workshop. Topics covered in 
short papers covering include strategies used in previous TAC 
competitions, discussions as to the effectiveness of different 
approaches, thoughts on applying the lessons learned through TAC to 
other domains.

Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair Conference System 
website (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tada11)


Post-workshop publication:
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- The TADA-11 Proceedings will be published (electronic format) with 
IJCAI proceedings.
- A Special Issue on Trading Agents is pending.


Workshop Chair:
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	Andreas Symeonidis
	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	GR 54 124, Thessaloniki, Greece
	Email: 	asymeon at eng.auth.gr
	Office: +30 2310 99 4344
	Fax: 	+30 2310 99 6398


Program Committee:
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- Michael Benisch, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ken Brown, University College Cork		
- John Collins, University of Minnesota
- Maria Fasli, Essex University
- Shaheen Fatima, University of Loughborough
- Enrico Gerding, University of Southampton
- Maria Gini, University of Minnesota 	
- Amy Greenwald, Brown University
- Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- Patrick Jordan, University of Michigan
- Wolf Ketter, Rotterdam School of Management
- Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
- Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
- Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool
- Pericles A. Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Tracy Mullen, Penn State University
- Jinzhong Niu, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Benno Overeinder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- David Pardoe, University of Texas at Austin
- Steve Phelps, University of Essex
- Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC
- Alex Rogers, University of Southampton
- Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
- Alberto Sardinha, Carnegie Mellon University
- Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
- Andreas Symeonidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Ioannis A. Vetsikas, University of Southampton
- William Walsh, CombineNet
- Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
- Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney
- Haizheng Zhang, Penn State University

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Dr. Wolf Ketter
Assistant Professor of  Information Systems
Director, Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus (LARGE)
Chair, Association for Trading Agent Research

Rotterdam School of Management,  Erasmus University 
Department of Decision and Information Sciences
PO Box 1738 (Room T9-07)
3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Tel: +31-10-4082624
Fax: +31-10-4089010
Email: wketter at rsm.nl
Web: http://www.ketter.ws
Papers: http://www.ketter.ws/research/publications
Working Papers: http://ssrn.com/author=907441
LARGE: http://www.large.rsm.nl
Power TAC: http://www.powertac.org  
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