17th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2026)

ANAC2026 will be held at IJCAI2026 in Bremen, Germany on 15th–21st August, 2026, as a part of the IJCAI2026 Competition and Challenge.

ANAC 2026's IJCAI schedule (all times CEST, GMT+2)

  • Demo Session (ANAC 2025) — Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · 15:00–16:30 · Room 4.1 C.
  • ANAC 2026 Booth Session — Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 15:00–17:00.
  • ANAC 2026 Final Session (including winner announcement) — Thursday, August 20, 2026 · 10:00–12:00 · Room 4.1 A

Overview of ANAC2026

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 2026 agents will serve as a negotiating agent repository to the negotiation community.

Important Date

 

Leagues in ANAC2026

Automated Negotiation League (ANL)

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 (SCML)

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

Human Agent Negotiation (HAN) League

Design and build a negotiation agent that can negotiate effectively with a human partner.

Details CFP Live Competition

 

ANAC 2026 Final Session Program

Time: 10:00–12:00, Thursday, August 20 2026
Location: Room 401A, Congress Centrum Bremen
Session Program (Tentative):
Time Activity Owner
10:00-10:10 Opening and ANAC2026 Reports Katsuhide Fujita
10:10-10:25 HAN2026 Report Yasser Mohammad
10:25-10:35 HAN2026 Finalist Presentation Yasser Mohammad
10:35-10:50 ANL2026 Report Loes Peters
10:50-11:00 ANL2026 Finalist Presentation
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:30 SCML2026 Report Yasser Mohammad
11:30-11:45 SCML-OneShot & Std Finalist Presentation
11:45-12:00 ANAC Community Meeting Reyhan Aydogan

 

Sponsors

NEC Corporation
Artificial Intelligence Journal CWI

 

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: Loes Peters (CWI/Eindhoven University of Technology) and ANAC Board Members
  • Supply Chain Management League: Dr. Yasser Mohammad and Dr. Satoshi Morinaga (NEC, AIST); Prof.Dr. Katsuhide Fujita, (TUAT,NEC-AIST); Prof. Dr. Amy Greenwald (Brown University); Mark Klein (MIT)
  • Human-Agent Negotiation League: Dr. Yasser Mohammad (NEC/AIST) and Dr. Reyhan Aydogan

Sponsorship Chair in ANAC2026

  • TBD

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 ANAC2026, the main contact is Dr. Reyhan Aydogan reyhan.aydogan[at]ozyegin.edu.tr