15th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2024)

To be held at AAMAS2024 in Auckland, New Zealand, 6–10 MAY 2024, as a part of the AAMAS competition.
The winners will be announced in the ANAC session @ AAMAS which will be held on May 9, 2024 (14:00-16:30) in Gallery Room 3.
The schedule for official AAMAS competitions can be found here

ANAC 2024 Online Registration Form

Overview of ANAC2024

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 a variety of negotiation research challenges:

We expect innovative and novel agent strategies will be developed, and the submitted ANAC 2024 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to the negotiation community.

Competition Schedule

 

Leagues in ANAC2024

Automated Negotiation League

Explore the strategies and difficulties in creating efficient agents whose primary purpose is to ​negotiate with other agent's strategies.​

Details CFP Live Competition

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

 

Program of the ANAC 2024 Session

ANAC 2024 Online Registration Form

The ANAC2024 session and the winners will be announced on May 9, 2024 (14:00-16:30) in Gallery Room 3.

  • 14:00 Opening
  • 14:10 SCML overview + winner announcement & presentations
  • 14:55 Break
  • 15:10 ANL overview + winner announcement & presentations
  • 15:55 Break
  • 16:10 Discussion challenges/suggestions for next year
  • 16:30 Closing

 

Finalists

The finalists of ANAC2024 can be found on each league's website.

 

Participants

The participants of ANAC2024 can be found on each league's website.

 

Sponsors

Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) NEC - AIST AI Cooperative Research Laboratory

 

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: Tamara Florijn (CWI/Utrecht University) and ANAC Board Members
  • 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)

Sponsorship Chair in ANAC2024

  • Dr. Yasser Mohammad (NEC, AIST)

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 ANAC2024, the main contact is Dr. Reyhan Aydogan reyhan.aydogan[at]ozyegin.edu.tr