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The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011)

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Complex Automated Negotiations: Theories, Models, and Software Competitions

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In May 2011, we organized the Second International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011) in conjunction with AAMAS 2011. ANAC is an international competition that challenges researchers to develop a successful automated negotiator for scenarios where there is incomplete information about the opponent. One of the goals of this competition is to help steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue negotiations, and to encourage the design of generic negotiating agents that are able to operate in a variety of scenarios. Eighteen teams from seven different institutes competed in ANAC2011. This chapter describes the participating agents and the setup of the tournament, including the different negotiation scenarios that were used in the competition. We report on the results of the qualifying and final round of the tournament.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuhide Fujita

  2. Techno-Business Administration (MTBA), Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  3. Man Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks & Catholijn Jonker

  4. Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Bar-Ilan, Israel

    Sarit Kraus & Raz Lin

  5. Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Sarit Kraus

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Nagoya, Showa, 466-8555, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  2. School of Information Technology &, Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, 2522, New South Wales, Australia

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    Valentin Robu

  4. Industrial Technology, Advanced Institute of, Higashi-Oi 1-10-40, Shinagawa, 140-0011, Tokyo, Japan

    Tokuro Matsuo

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Fujita, K. et al. (2013). The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011). In: Ito, T., Zhang, M., Robu, V., Matsuo, T. (eds) Complex Automated Negotiations: Theories, Models, and Software Competitions. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30737-9_11

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