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Results of the First Annual Human-Agent League of the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition

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Johnathan Mell,

Jonathan Gratch,

Reyhan Aydoğan,

Catholijn M. JonkerAuthors Info & Claims

IVA '18: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Pages 23 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267907

Published: 05 November 2018 Publication History

Abstract

We present the results of the first annual Human-Agent League of ANAC. By introducing a new human-agent negotiating platform to the research community at large, we facilitated new advancements in human-aware agents. This has succeeded in pushing the envelope in agent design, and creating a corpus of useful human-agent interaction data. Our results indicate a variety of agents were submitted, and that their varying strategies had distinct outcomes on many measures of the negotiation. These agents approach the problems endemic to human negotiation, including user modeling, bidding strategy, rapport techniques, and strategic bargaining. Some agents employed advanced tactics in information gathering or emotional displays and gained more points than their opponents, while others were considered more "likeable" by their partners.

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Results of the First Annual Human-Agent League of the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI

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IVA '18: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

November 2018

381 pages

ISBN:9781450360135

DOI:10.1145/3267851

Conference Chairs:
Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
,
Deborah Richards
Macquarie University
,
Simeon Simoff
Western Sydney University
,
Program Chairs:
Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS - ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
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Dirk Heylen
University of Twente
,
Tomas Trescak
Western Sydney University

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IVA '18: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

November 5 - 8, 2018

NSW, Sydney, Australia

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IVA '18 Paper Acceptance Rate 17 of 82 submissions, 21%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 53 of 196 submissions, 27%

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