The Fifth Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2014)

In May 2014, we organized the Fifth International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2014) in conjunction with AAMAS 2014. ANAC is an international competition that challenges researchers to develop a successful automated negotiator for scenarios where there is incomplete information about the opponent. One of the goals of this competition is to help steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue negotiations, and to encourage the design of generic negotiating agents that are able to operate in a variety of scenarios. 21 teams from 13 different institutes competed in ANAC 2014. This chapter describes the participating agents and the setup of the tournament, including the different negotiation scenarios that were used in the competition. We report on the results of the qualifying and final round of the tournament. K. Fujita (B) Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan e-mail: [email protected] R. Aydoğan Computer Science Department, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] T. Baarslag Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK e-mail: [email protected] T. Ito Techno-Business Administration (MTBA), Nagoya Institute of Technolog, Aichi, Japan e-mail: [email protected] C. Jonker Man Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 N. Fukuta et al. (eds.), Recent Advances in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation, Studies in Computational Intelligence 638, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30307-9_13 211 212 K. Fujita et al.