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                                  2003
           AAMAS-03 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V:
                                Designing Mechanisms and Systems

                           to be held at the
           2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents
                                & Multiagent Systems
                          Melbourne, Australia

                           14th or 15th July 2003

                       http://www.iiia.csic.es/amecv

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Overview
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The design of economic agents, mechanisms, and systems has received
growing attention in the agents and multiagent systems
communities. Electronic commerce is rich with focused yet challenging
problems, ripe for technical advances and practical application of
agent technologies.  As the domain is characterized by individual
agent self-interest and private information, agent mediated trade
requires principled design, often incorporating novel combinations of
theories from different disciplines.  Thus, techniques from fields
such as computer science, operations research, artificial intelligence
and distributed systems are integrated with principles from economics
and game theory.  Furthermore, there are challenges to eliciting human
preferences and requirements, and ensuring that they are represented
in automated agent behavior. Another challenge is to evaluate and
explain, either analytically or empirically, the dynamics and
properties of both mechanisms and trading agents.

Workshop Format
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AMEC V is colocated with the Second International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systens (AAMAS'03). AMEC V will build
on the success of previous workshops; namely AMEC IV was colocated
with the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systens (AAMAS'02), AMEC III was colocated with Agents'00,
and AMEC II was colocated with IJCAI'99.  This year, the workshop will
have two components:

1. Papers:

We wish to explore research in the principled design of economic
agents, mechanisms, and systems. To promote a forward-looking
discussion, we encourage the submission of extended abstracts,
work-in-progress reports, and position papers, as well as more
developed technical papers, expressing innovative and principled ideas
and approaches. Areas of particular interest include:

*       mechanisms, negotiation protocols, and auctions (esp.
        advanced designs such as multiattribute auctions)
*       bidding and negotiation strategies
*       integration of negotiation with broader decision making
*       economic-based theory and design methodologies
*       market-based problem solving
*       trading and pricing
*       eliciting human preferences and requirements and ensuring
        that they are represented in automated agent behavior
*       significant new problem domains
*       systems that support bidding and negotiation
*       simulation and evaluation of properties of novel and complex
mechanisms

There will be oral presentation of a selected subset of the accepted
papers. One of the selection criteria to be applied by the program
committee will be the likelihood of the paper to encourage fruitful
discussions. Presentations will be grouped around one topic. The
presentations will be around 20-25 minutes. Other selected papers will
be presented in a poster session.

2. Panel: There will be a moderated panel discussion (topic and
participants to be announced).


Publication
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We will invite selected papers for an LNAI volume, in a format similar
to previous workshops in the AMEC series.

Important Dates
*       Paper submission deadline:              22 April, 2003
*       Notification of acceptace:              17 May, 2003
*       Submission of camera-ready version:     30 May, 2003
*       Workshop date:                          14 July, 2003


Submission Details
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Authors should submit full papers electronically in PS or PDF format
to Juan A. Rodr?guez- Aguilar, [log in to unmask] 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; 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 8
pages. Please format papers according to the ACM style
<http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html>. Templates for
Word, WordPerfect and Latex are available. Submitted papers will be
reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with the
specified primary contact.

Program Committee
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Chris Brooks, University of San Francisco, USA
Rajarshi Das, IBM Research, USA
Frank Dignum, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Boi Faltings, EPFL, CH
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Amy Greenwald, Brown University
Robert Guttman, IBM Research, USA
Nick R. Jennings, Southampton University, UK
Jayant Kalagnanam, IBM, USA
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research, USA
Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan U., Israel
Kate Larson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford University, USA
Joerg Muller, Siemens, GE
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
David Pennock, Overture Services, USA
Chris Preist, Hewlett-Packard, UK
Antonio Reyes-Moro, iSOCO, Spain
Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel
Onn Shehory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon U., USA
Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research, USA
Steven Willmott, UPC, Spain
Peter Wurman, NCSU, USA


Workshop organizers
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Peyman Faratin
Laboratory for Computer Science
MIT
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tel: +1 617- 258-0458

David C. Parkes
Department of Computer Science,
Harvard University
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tel: +1 617-384-8130

Juan A. Rodr?guez-Aguilar
Institut d'Investigaci? en Intel.lig?ncia Artificial (IIIA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas (CSIC)
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+34 93 580 95 70

William E. Walsh
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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tel: +1 914-784-7334


Primary contact
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Juan A. Rodr?guez-Aguilar
Institut d'Investigaci? en Intel.lig?ncia Artificial (IIIA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas (CSIC)
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+34 93 580 95 70


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Professor Nigel Gilbert, FREng, AcSS, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor
of
Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
689173