ANAC2021 - 12th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition

NEWS

Winners in each league are announced: here (September 1st, 2021)
In the Movie Theater of IJCAI2021 Virtual Venue, we have a booth displaying ANAC2021 videos.
ANAC 2021 program is uploaded: here. ANAC2021 will be held in Room Blue 3 on August 25th from 4:00am - 9:00am(EST).
Finalists are uploaded: here

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: July/August, 2021 (Please check the website of individual leagues for their specific timeline)
Announcement of finalists: August, 2021
ANAC2021: August 25th, 2021

General ANAC Website

Previous Competitions

Overview of ANAC2021

The Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC) is an international tournament that has been running since 2010 to bring together researchers from the negotiation community. ANAC provides a unique benchmark for evaluating practical negotiation strategies in multi-issue domains and has the following aims:

to provide an incentive for the development of effective and efficient negotiation protocols and strategies for bidding, accepting and opponent modeling for different negotiation scenarios;
to collect and develop a benchmark of negotiation scenarios, protocols and strategies;
to develop a common set of tools and criteria for the evaluation and exploration of new protocols and new strategies against benchmark scenarios, protocols and strategies;
to set the research agenda for automated negotiation.

The previous competitions have spawned novel research in AI in the field of autonomous agent design which are available to the wider research community.

This year, we introduce five different negotiation research challenges:

Automated Negotiation(GeniusWeb framework)
Human-Agent Negotiation (IAGO framework)
Werewolf Game (AIWolf Framework)
Supply Chain Management (NegMas framework)

We expect innovative and novel agent strategies will be developed, and the submitted ANAC 2021 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to the negotiation community. The researchers can develop novel negotiating agents and evaluate their agents by comparing their performance with the performance of the ANAC 2021 agents.

Leagues in ANAC2021

Automated Negotiation League

Design a negotiation agent for bilateral negotiation that can learn from every previous encounters while the tournament progresses.

Details CFP Discord

Human-Agent League

Explore the strategies, nuances, and difficulties in creating realistic and efficient agents whose primary purpose is to negotiate with humans.

Details CFP

Supply Chain Management League

Design and build an autonomous agent that negotiates on behalf of a factory manager situated in a supply chain management simulation.

Details CFP Live Competition

Werewolf Game League

Build an agent that is able to build consensus with other actors (who are potentially deceptive), identify agents of the opposing team and coordinate to vote them out of the game.

Details CFP

Winners

You can find the winners for each league.

Automated Negotiation League

AlphaBIU; Bar-Ilan University
MatrixAlienAgent; University of Tulsa
TripleAgent; Utrecht University

Human-Agent League

Agent Naji; Bar-Ilan University
FairTrader; University of Tulsa
Doctor Strange; The College of Management Academic Studies

Supply Chain Management League

[Oneshot Track]

Agent 112; Bar-Ilan Univrsity
Gentle; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Agent 74; Bar-Ilan University & UcOneshotAgent; Kyoto University

[Standard Track]

M4; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
CharliesAgent; Ozyegin University+Brown University
ArtisanKangaroo; Nagoya Institute of Technology

[Collusion Track]

M4; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
CharliesAgent; Ozyegin University+Brown University

[BIRD Innovative Award]

GodfatherGoldfish; Brown University

Werewolf Game League

[AIWol NLP Task]

Udon; Independent
CanisLupus; Independent
AzuEmon; Kyoto University

[Protocol Task]

ICE/toku, Tokushima University
TOT, Yamagata University
KP22, Kougakuin University

Finalists

You can find the finalist for each league. The ordering does not reflect the actual ranking. They are sorted alphabetically. Note that the actual ranking will be announced in ANAC session during the IJCAI 2021.

Automated Negotiation League

8 submissions

AlphaBIU; Bar-Ilan University
MatrixAlienAgent; University of Tulsa
TripleAgent; Utrecht University

Human-Agent League

11 submissions

Agent Naji; Bar-Ilan University
Doctor Strange; The College of Management Academic Studies
FairTrader; University of Tulsa

Supply Chain Management League

33 submissions

[Oneshot Track]

Agent 74; Bar-Ilan University
Agent 112; Bar-Ilan Univrsity
Gentle; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
GodfatherGoldfish; Brown University
StagHunter; University of Michigan
The Sopranos 78; Bar-Ilan Univrsity
UcOneshotAgent; Kyoto University
Zilberan; Bar-Ilan University

[Standard Track]

ArtisanKangaroo; Nagoya Institute of Technology
CharliesAgent; Ozyegin University+Brown University
M4; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Mediocre; Ozyegin University
PAIBIU; Bar Ilan University

[Collusion Track]

ArtisanKangaroo; Nagoya Institute of Technology
CharliesAgent; Ozyegin University+Brown University
M4; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Mediocre; Ozyegin University

Werewolf Game League

32 submissions

[AIWol NLP Task]

AzuEmon; Kyoto University
BIU wolfs; Bar Ilan University
CanisLupus; Independent
ForestLab; Yokohama University
Kanolab; Shizuoka University
Udon; Independent

[Protocol Task]

CanisLupus, independent
HALU, Kyoto University
Hideto, Yamagata University
ICE, Tokushima University
karma, Chiba Intstitute of Technology
KP22, Kougakuin University
OKAMI, Bar -Ilan University
Sashimi, University of Tsukuba
SORA, Yamagata University
SYu, Yamagata University
toku, Tokushima University
Tomato, Independent
Tomatoken, Kougakuin University
TOT, Yamagata University
wasabi, Independent

ANAC2021 Program (Tentative)

Wednesday, 25th of August 2021 @Blue 3(You can attend the ANAC 2021 session through IJCAI 2021 virtual chair)

	UTC	CET(UTC+2)	Turkey(UTC+3)	Japan(UTC+9)	EST(UTC-4)
Welcome: 10 min	8:00am-8:10am	10:00am	11:00am	5:00pm	4:00am
Automated Negotiation League: 50 min	8:10am-9:00am	10:10am	11:10am	5:10pm	4:10am
Break: 15 min	9:00am-9:15am	11:00am	12:00am	6:00pm	5:00am
WereWolf Game League: 50 min	9:15am-10:05am	11:15am	12:15pm	6:15pm	5:15am
Break: 15 min	10:05am-10:20am	12:05am	1:05pm	7:05pm	6:05am
Supply Chain Management League: 50 min	10:20am-11:10am	12:20am	1:20pm	7:20pm	6:20am
Break: 20 min	11:10am-11:30am	1:10pm	2:10pm	8:10pm	7:10am
Human-Agent League: 50 min	11:30am-12:20am	1:30pm	2:30pm	8:30pm	7:30am
Discussion: 40 min	12:20pm-1:00pm	2:20pm	3:20pm	9:20pm	8:20am

The session in each league will be include:

Introduction, rules and challenge
Agents' strategies
Overall results and award ceremony
Challenge for next year

Organization

ANAC Board Members

Dr. Reyhan Aydogan (Ozyegin University & Delft University of Technology)
Dr. Tim Baarslag (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Dr. Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker (Delft University of Technology)

League Organizers

Automated Agents League: Bram Renting (Leiden University)
Human-Agent League: Dr. Johnathan Mell (The University of Central Florida)
Supply Chain Management League: Dr. Yasser Mohammad, Shinji Nakadai; Dr. Satoshi Morinaga (NEC, AIST); Prof. Dr. Amy Greenwald, Dr. Enrique Areyan Viqueir (Brown University); Dr. Mark Klein (MIT)
Werewolf Game League: Dr. Hirotaka Osawa, Dr. Claus Aranha (University of Tsukuba); Dr. Takashi Otsuki (Yamagata University); Dr. Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka University)

Sponsorship Chair in ANAC2021

Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito (Kyoto University)

Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker (Delft University of Technology) (Chair)
Prof. Dr. Takayuki Ito (Kyoto University)
Prof. Dr. Carles Sierra (IIIA/CSIC)
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gratch (USC)

Contact

For any questions of ANAC2021, the main contact is Dr. Reyhan Aydogan reyhan.aydogan[at]ozyegin.edu.tr