IJCAI-2001 Workshop on
Economic Agents, Models, and Mechanisms
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/amygreen/workshop.html
Seattle, Washington, August 6, 2001
CALL FOR PAPERS
At their cores, both artificial intelligence and economics model decision
making. This commonality is embodied in the recent work by computer
scientists on auctions and agents for electronic commerce. From economics
we adopt the goal of designing auctions and other mechanisms that support
particular allocative objectives. Artificial intelligence provides
algorithms for the individual decision maker, giving agents the ability to
make (boundedly) rational choices. Both economics and AI (in particular
multi-agent systems) also study the emergent behavior of the collective.
This workshop will explore current research in the intersection of these
two fields. We invite submissions from any of these three areas:
mechanism (particularly, auction) design, economic agent design, or
economic modeling. Specifically, we solicit papers dealing with, but not
limited to, the following: agent technology applicable to the design of
economic mechanisms; economic modeling of agent-based systems; economic
theory that facilitates agent implementation; empirical evaluations of
economically-motivated agents or economic mechanisms; position statements
about the application of economics in artificial intelligence.
Workshop
We plan to have both research presentations and panels in order to
motivate discussion and promote cross-fertilization of ideas. To encourage
interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshop will be limited to
40 participants and ample time will be allotted for general discussion. If
you would like to attend, please email a message with your name,
affiliation, and a one-paragraph statement of interest to the organizers
by May 31. Workshop attendees must register for the main IJCAI conference.
Submission
If you intend to submit a paper, please send the organizers an email by
February 15, 2000. We ask authors to submit an extended abstract of up to
8 (one column) pages by February 28, 2001. Decisions about submissions and
an agenda will be announced on March 31, 2001. Camera-ready version of
papers and abstracts must be submitted by April 15, 2001. Manuscripts are
expected to be in English, in either postscript or PDF format. If we
receive an adequate number of quality papers, we will seek to publish them
as a collection.
Organizers
Amy Greenwald
Department of Computer Science
Brown University, Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912
Peter Wurman
North Carolina State University
106 Ventures I; Centennial Campus
940 Main Campus Dr.
Raleigh, NC 27695-7535
Program Committee
Robert Axtell, Brookings Institute
Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto
Jeff Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David Parkes, University of Pennsylvania
Amir Ronen, Stanford University
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University
Gerry Tesauro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Bill Walsh, University of Michigan
Mike Wellman, University of Michigan
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