Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce VI:
Theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms
and Systems
(in Cooperation with
ACM SIGecom)
July 19, 2004, New York,
USA
Overview
The design
of agent-mediated electronic trading systems has involved finding solutions
to a diverse set of interaction problems, ranging from behavioral to organizational
issues, together with their computational, information and system level sub-problems.
Models that help in this multi-agent design task have come from varied number
of natural and social sciences but perhaps the most influential has been game
theoretic, in part because they model interactions bottom-up in terms of the
rationality of self interested agent which have a clear, albeit a complex, mapping
to computational models.
The primary
goal of this workshop is to continue to bring together novel work from diverse
fields as Computer Science, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence and
Distributed Systems that focus on modeling, implementation and evaluation of
computational trading institution and/or agent strategies over a diverse set
of goods. We particularly encourage work that address the more focused and related
problems of: 1) constraints from Distributed Systems engineering on mechanism
design and 2) more generally, design of imperfect trading institutions for bounded
rational ("robust") mechanisms, agents and users.
Topics:
- 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
- Agents strategies
in multi-institutional environments
- Economic and
game theoretic specification, design and analysis
- Bargaining,
voting and auction mechanisms
- Distributed
reputation and trusted mechanisms
- User-Agent interface
design
- Agents that
support bidding and negotiation
- Empirical evaluation
of human-agent trading
- Eliciting human
preferences and requirements
- Simulation and
evaluation of properties of novel and complex mechanisms
- Goods, services,
and contract description languages
- Mechanism description,
verification and testing languages
- Machine learning
for mechanism identification problem
- Agent mediated
electronic system architectures and design principles
- Implemented
agent-mediated electronic-commerce systems
- Mechanisms for
business (supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises)
- Mechanisms for
Internet (Congestion, Routing, Overlay, Peer-to-Peer, ad-hoc networks)
- Mechanisms for
novel applications
Publication
We will invite selected papers for an LNCS volume,
in a
format
similar to previous workshops in the AMEC series.
Important Dates
-
Paper submission deadline: 16 April, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: 1 May, 2004
- Submission
of camera-ready version: 1 June, 2004
- Workshop date: 19 July, 2004
Submission Details
Authors should submit full papers electronically
in PS or PDF format to Peyman Faratin, with the subject line:
"AMEC-VI 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; 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.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence
will be with the specified primary contact.
Program Committee
- Martin Bichler,
Technical University of Munich, DE
- Chris Brooks,
University of San Francisco, USA
- Monique Calisti,
Whitestein Technologies
- Jesus Cerquides,
University of Barcelona, Spain
- Vincent Conitzer,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Frank Dignum,
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Marc Esteva,
IIIA-CSIC, Spain
- Boi Faltings,
EPFL, CH
- Shaheen Fatima,
Liverpool University, UK
- Andrew Gilpin,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Amy Greenwald,
Brown University, USA
- Nick R. Jennings,
Southampton University, UK
- Jeff Kephart,
IBM Research, USA
- Kate Larson,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kevin Leyton-Brown,
University of Stanford, USA
- Asuman Ozdaglar
, MIT, USA.
- Julian Padget,
University of Bath, UK
- David Pennock,
Overture Services, USA
- Joerg Muller,
Siemens, GE
- Simon Parsons,
Brooklyn College, USA
- Antonio Reyes-Moro,
iSOCO, Spain
- Jeff Rosenschein,
Hebrew University, Israel
- Rahul Sami,
MIT, USA
- Onn Shehory,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Yoav Shoham,
Stanford University, USA
- Gerry Tesauro,
IBM Research, USA
- William Walsh,
IBM Research, USA
- Mike Wellman,
University of Michigan, USA
- Steven Willmott,
UPC, Spain
- Makoto Yokoo,
Kyushu University, Japan
Workshop History
Workshop organizers
Peyman Faratin
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT
peyman "at" mit "dot" edu
Tel: +1 (617) 258-0458
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Institut d'Investigacio en Intel.ligencia Artificial (IIIA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
jar "at" iiia "dot" csic
"dot" es
Tel: +34 93 580 95 70
Primary contact
Peyman Faratin
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT
peyman "at" mit "dot" edu
Tel: +1 (617) 258-0458
