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EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

August 11, 2003

Workshop on
Trading Agent Design and Analysis

Preliminary Schedule

The workshop will be held Monday, August 11. The preliminary schedule is subject to change. Time in the afternoon has been reserved for activities related to the concommitant Trading Agent Competition (TAC-03).

This workshop will focus on the design and evaluation of trading agents, including trading agent architectures, decision-making algorithms, theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of agent strategies in negotiation scenarios. For more information about the scope of the workshop, see the original call for papers.

8:50 Welcome, move to exhibition hall
9:00 Watch first TAC games, plan exhibition
9:40 Strategies and Heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the Third Trading Agent Competition,
Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding, and Rong Pan
10:05 Bidding under Uncertainty in Simultaneous Auctions,
Amy Greenwald
10:30 Break
10:45 Trading Agents Competing: Performance, Progress, and Market Effectiveness,
Michael P. Wellman and Shih-Fen Cheng
11:10 A Supply Chain Management Game for the Trading agent Competition,
Raghu Arunachalam, Norman Sadeh, Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne, and Sverker Janson
11:35 TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities,
Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, and Rong Pan
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Coordinating Multi-Attribute Reverse Auctions Subject to Temporal and Capacity Constraints,
Jiong Sun and Norman Sadeh
1:55 Invited Talk: The Penn-Lehman Automated Trading Project,
Michael Kearns (paper with Luis Ortiz)
2:45 Performance Analysis of a Counter-intuitive Automated Stock-Trading Agent,
Ronggang Yu and Peter Stone
3:10 TAC agent break
4:00 TAC-03 Supply Chain Management
Panel Discussion
5:00 End