AAAI-99 Workshop
on
Negotiation: Settling conflicts and identifying opportunities
July 19, 1999
Organizing committee members:
- Sandip Sen
(Chair), Univ. of Tulsa, sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu
- Carl Hewitt, MIT, hewitt@world.std.com
- Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, huhns@sc.edu
- Nick Jennings, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK, n.r.jennings@qmw.ac.uk
- Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University, Israel, sarit@cs.umd.edu
- Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, lesser@cs.umass.edu
- Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Israel, jeff@cs.huji.ac.il
- Tuomas Sandholm, Washington University, sandholm@cs.wustl.edu
- Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, singh@ncsu.edu
- Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, vidal@sc.edu
DESCRIPTION
Agents interact with other agents in their environment in a variety of
circumstances. Multiple agents in such shared environments have to
tradeoff goals with others because of resource constraints and goal
conflicts. On the other hand, agents can engage in fruitful dialogue
by which they can unearth new possibilities and form new productive
partnerships. Negotiation is a process by which agents interactively
settle on mutually agreeable behaviors to serve common purpose.
Agents negotiate under a variety of information, time, and computational
restrictions. A key research issue in agents and multiagent research is to
develop negotiation procedures by which agents can efficiently and
effectively negotiate solutions. Effectiveness requires that the outcome
is fair, acceptable, or desirable to the parties involved in the
negotiation process. Efficiency requires that the procedure is not
excessively time-consuming or computing-intensive.
Topics of interest
- Negotiation framework, languages, and protocols
- Characterizing negotiation schemes in terms of modeling power,
communication abilities, knowledge requirement, processing abilities
of agents
- Negotiating to form, maintain, and reorganize teams or coalitions
- Negotiation roles of agents; agents that facilitate the negotiation process
- Negotiation in open markets and auctions
- Specific applications demonstrating agents negotiating in real
environments
- Learning to negotiate
Workshop format
The workshop will contain paper sessions on common themes with panels at the
end to compare/contrast the presentations. We also plan to host an invited
speaker.
Workshop attendance
Participation will be by invitation only (limited to 40 people).
Submission Requirements
E-mail postscript copy of one of the following to sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu:
- brief statement of interest (1 page),
- complete paper (6 pages maximum) including keywords, authors' complete
address.
Direct correspondence to:
Sandip Sen
Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences,
University of Tulsa,
600 South College Avenue,
Tulsa, OK 74104-3189.
Phone: 918-631-2985
FAX: 918-631-3077.
e-mail: sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: March 12, 1999
Acceptance notice to participants: March 26, 1999
Camera-ready papers due: April 21, 1999