Workshop description |
Trading agents have become a prominent application area in Artificial
Intelligence because of their potential benefits in electronic
commerce, and because they present a stiff challenge to models of
rational decision-making. A wide variety of trading scenarios and
agent approaches have been studied, creating a broad and rich research
area. This workshop will focus 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, and game-theoretic analyses, are
all within the scope of the workshop. See the
Call for Papers for details.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Trading Agent Competition
(TAC-08), with finals held during AAAI-08.
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Morning Program |
8:00 - 9:00 |
Watch the start of the day’s Competition, including the
semi-finals of the TAC-SCM Baseline Competition, the finals
of the Procurement Challenge, and the finals of the CAT Competition |
9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Workshop Overview |
9:15-10:30 |
Full Papers - Session I (session chair: Bill Walsh):
- Applications of Classifying Bidding Strategies in TAC --
Mark L. Gruman and Manjunath Narayana -- University of Massachusetts
- Bidding Heuristics for Simultaneous Auctions: Lessons from TAC Travel --
Amy Greenwald, Seong Jae Lee, and Victor Naroditskiy -- Brown University
- The 2007 Procurement Challenge: A Competition to Evaluate Mixed Procurement Strategies --
A. Sardinha, M. Benisch, N. Sadeh, R. Ravichandran, V. Podobnik and M. Stan. –
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Zagreb and University of Bucharest
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:10 | Panel I: "Mixed Initiative Competitions: New Research and Education
Opportunities" Panel Chair: Norman Sadeh - Panel Members: Maria Gini, Amy Greenwald, Wolf Ketter, and Peter McBurney. |
12:10-13:45 | Lunch Break |
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Afternoon program |
13:45 - 15:00 |
Full Papers - Session II (Session Chair: Amy Greenwald):
- Information Feedback and Efficiency in Multiattribute
Double Auctions -- Kevin M. Lochner and Michael P. Wellman --
University of Michigan
- A Survey of Agent Designs for TAC SCM --
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, and Maria Gini – Rotterdam School of Management,
Erasmus University, and University of Minnesota
- The 2007 TAC SCM Prediction Challenge --
David Pardoe and Peter Stone -- University of Texas at Austin
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15:00-15:15 |
Short Paper Presentations (Session Chair: J. Collins):
- Designing an Effective E-Market:
An Overview of the CAT Agent --
Ana Petric, Vedran Podobnik, Andrej Grguric, Marijan Zemljic --
University of Zagreb
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15:15-15:30 |
Demo Presentation:
- Andrew Nelson, Agent Configuration Editor, University of Minnesota
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15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:10 |
Panel II: TAC: What Next? Bridging the Adoption Gap between Academia and Industry
Panel Chair: Wolf Ketter - Panel Members: John Collins, Patrick Jordan, Norman Sadeh, and Bill Walsh.
- Can we articulate a research agenda that will lead to more significant impact outside the academic
trading agent community, especially in business/industry?
- How can we connect better to the broader Artificial Intelligence, Business and Economics communities?
Game (fully autonomous agents) vs. real industry problems (mixed-initiative systems)!
How can we apply gained knowledge from TAC SCM to real industry problems?
Do we have examples of knowledge transfer and real projects?
- Is the current game too abstract to be of interest to the business community?
If so, is there a way to achieve a better balance between research and business relevance?
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| Adjourn |
| NOTE: Full papers: 20 min presentation and 5 min Q&A, Short papers: 12min presentation and 3 min Q&A |
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Organizing committee |
Organizing committee:
Program committee:
- Michael Benisch,
Carnegie Mellon University
- Ken Brown,
University College Cork
- John Collins,
University of Minnesota
- Maria Fasli,
Essex University
- Shaheen Fatima,
University of Liverpool
- 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
- Kate Larson,
University of Waterloo
- Kevin Leyton-Brown,
University of British Columbia
- Peter McBurney ,
University of Liverpool
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Pericles A. Mitkas,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Tracy Mullen, Penn State University
- Benno Overeinder,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Julian Padget ,
University of Bath
- David Pardoe,
University of Texas at Austin
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Simon Parsons ,
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar ,
IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia
- Jeffrey Rosenschein ,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Alberto Sardinha ,
Carnegie Mellon University
- Peter Stone ,
University of Texas at Austin
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Ioannis A. Vetsikas ,
University of Southampton
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Michael Wellman ,
University of Michigan
- Dongmo Zhang ,
University of Western Sydney
- Haizheng Zhang ,
Penn State University
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