AMEC/TADA 2016 - Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC)

The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems and automated trading agents involves finding solutions to a large and diverse array of problems, concerning individual agent behaviors, interaction, and collective behavior. A wide variety of electronic commerce scenarios and systems, and agent approaches to these, have been studied in recent years. These studies suggest models that support the design and the analysis at both the level of the single agent and the level of the multi-agent system.
The primary goal of this workshop is to continue to bring together novel work from diverse fields as Computer Science, Game Theory, Economics, Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems that focus on modeling, implementation, and evaluation of computational trading agents and markets. We particularly encourage submissions that address the computational and practical aspects of agent-mediated electronic commerce and automated trading agents along the following (non-limiting) topics:
Advertising and trading strategies through social networks
Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce
Algorithmic mechanism design
Auction and negotiation technology
Automated shopping, trading, and contract management
Computational aspects of economics, game theory, and voting
Empirical evaluation of human-agent trading
Experience with e-commerce systems and markets
Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts
Learning and Intelligence aspects of trading agents
Mechanisms for unreliable, dynamic and asynchronous environments
Mobile commerce and mobile advertising
Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
Prediction/information markets
Preferences and decision theory
Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems
Design of trading agents in decentralised power markets
Incentive mechanisms for smart energy grids
Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance
TAC agents or analysis of TAC competitions
Furthermore, in 2016, AMEC/TADA aims to explore some new frontiers in electronic commerce research, including:
Mobile commerce
Mobile advertising
Advertising and trading through social networks