Recent Advances in Agent-Based Negotiation: Applications and Competition Challenges

Complex Automated Negotiations Frameworks and Mechanisms.- Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiations.- High dimension Multi-Issue Negotiations.- Large Scale Negotiations.- Concurrent Negotiations.- Multiple Negotiations.- Sequential Negotiations.- Negotiations under Asymmetric Information.- Prediction of Opponent's Behaviors and Strategies in Negotiations.- Machine Learning in Negotiations.- Simulation Models and Platforms for Complex Negotiations.- Coordination Mechanisms for Complex Negotiations.- Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms.- Utility and Preference Elicitation Technologies in Negotiations.- Utility and Preference Representations in Negotiations.- Computational Complexity of Multi-Issue Negotiations.- Negotiations with Humans, Negotiations in Social Networks etc.- Knowledge Management in Automated Negotiations.- Moral consideration for automated negotiations.- Real-life Aspects of Electronic Negotiations.- Applications for Automated Negotiations.

Dr. Rafik Hadfi is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He received his Ph.D. from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2015 and has worked in Japan and Australia before joining Kyoto University in 2020. His research interests lie in the design, development, and application of multi-agent systems for social simulation and collective decision making. He is currently using conversational AI to study deliberation, polarization, and fairness in social networks. Rafik is also working on multi-agent automated negotiation with the focus on social domains. Rafik served as a program committee member of leading AI conferences such as IJCAI, AAMAS, SNPD, and IEEE ICA and a reviewer for Group Decision and Negotiation; Artificial Intelligence Review; Neural Computation; Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics; and Networked and Distributed Computing. Rafik has been the publication chair, the workshops chair, the tutorials chair, the volunteers chair, and the web chair for international AI conferences such as IJCAI, PRICAI, PRIMA, and IEEE ICA. In 2022, he will serve as the program chair of IEEE ICA. Rafik received the annual conference award from Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (2020), IBM Award of Scientific Excellence (2020), Best Paper Award from Information Processing Society of Japan (2016), IEEE Young Researcher Award (2014), AAAI Student Scholarship Award (2014), and Best Presentation Award at the International Workshop on Agent Complex Automated Negotiations (2011).

Dr. Reyhan Aydogan is an assistant professor at Ozyegin University, Istanbul, and at the same time affiliated as a guest researcher in the Interactive Intelligence Group at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. As a guest researcher, she visited the Center of Collective Intelligence at MIT in 2013, the Intelligence Systems Group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2015, and