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 -- -- Pete -- --==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-- Peter Wurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/wurman/ --==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==--
