Workshop on
Trading Agent Design and Analysis

Trading agents have become a prominent application area in Artificial Intelligence in large part because of their obvious potential benefits in electronic commerce. A wide variety of trading scenarios and agent approaches have been studied, creating a broad and rich research area. This workshop will focus on the design and evaluation of trading agents. Papers on trading agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of agent strategies in negotiation scenarios, are all within the scope of the workshop.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2003 Trading Agent Competition (TAC-03) to be held during IJCAI, but paper submissions need not be directly related to TAC. In fact, we encourage submissions related to other trading scenarios. For more information about TAC-03, see http://www.sics.se/tac/.

Some of the workshop authors may be invited to expand their papers for inclusion in a book following TAC-03.

Preliminary Agenda

The preliminary agenda is now posted.

Submission Instructions

Papers should be about 8 single-column pages. Manuscripts are expected to be in English, in either postscript or PDF format. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to wurman@ncsu.edu.

Note: Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI conference in addition to the workshop.

Important Dates and Deadlines (Revised)

• Extended Deadline for the submission of full papers: March 28, 2003.
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 18, 2003.
• Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 21, 2003.
• Workshop: Monday, August 11, 2003.

Organizing Committee

Prof. Peter R. Wurman (Chair)
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
wurman@ncsu.edu

Prof. Peter Stone
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
pstone@cs.utexas.edu

Dr. Sverker Janson
Swedish Institute for Computer Science
sverker@sics.se

Prof. Amy Greenwald
Computer Science Department
Brown University
amy@brown.edu

Dr. Raghu Arunachalam
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
raghua@cs.cmu.edu

Program Committee

Robert Axtell, Brookings Institute
Joakim Eriksson, Swedish Institute for Computer Science
Maria Fasli, Essex University
Nick Jennings, University of Southhampton
Han La Poutre, CWI
Jörg P Müller, Siemens
Rudolf Müller, Maastricht University
Tracy Mullen, Penn State University
Sun Park, Rutgers University
David Parkes, Harvard
Norman, Sadeh CMU
Gerry Tesauro, IBM
William Walsh, IBM
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan