ANAC comes back in 2025 as an official competition of IJCAI 2025. Register here to get updates.
The ANAC session in Montreal will be Thursday August 21 from 3pm to 5:30pm at room 515AB.
You can also join us at the first Competition booth (booth 7) anytime from 9am to 5pm (espcially break times).
Overview of ANAC2025
The Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC) is an international tournament that has been running since 2010 to bring together researchers from the negotiation community. ANAC provides a unique benchmark for evaluating practical negotiation strategies in multi-issue domains and has the following aims:
- to provide an incentive for the development of effective and efficient negotiation protocols and strategies for bidding, accepting and opponent modeling for different negotiation scenarios;
- to collect and develop a benchmark of negotiation scenarios, protocols and strategies;
- to develop a common set of tools and criteria for the evaluation and exploration of new protocols and new strategies against benchmark scenarios, protocols and strategies;
- to set the research agenda for automated negotiation.
The previous competitions have spawned novel research in AI in the field of autonomous agent design which are available to the wider research community.
ANAC 2025 Session Schedule
| Time | Thursday August 21st, 2025 3pm to 5:30pm Montreal time |
| Location | Palais des congrès, Montreal |
| Zoom Link | Join (available 5min before the session) |
| Time | Activity | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 - 15:05 | Opening and Logistics | Reyhan Aydogan |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | ANAC 2025 Report | Reyhan Aydogan |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | HAN Announcements | Yasser Mohammad |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | ANL 2025 Report | Tamara Forijn |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | ANL 2025 Finalist Presentation | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Break and Poster Session | |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | SCML 2025 Report | Yasser Mohammad |
| 16:35 - 16:45 | SCML-OneShot Finalist Presentation | |
| 16:45 - 16:55 | SCML-Std Finalist Presentation | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | ANAC Community Meeting | Reyhan Aydogan |
Leagues in ANAC 2025
Automated Negotiation League
Explore the strategies and difficulties in creating efficient agents whose primary purpose is to negotiate with other agent's strategies.
Supply Chain Management League
Design and build an autonomous agent that negotiates on behalf of a factory manager situated in a supply chain management simulation.
Human-Agent Negotiation Pilot
A competition between IJCAI participants to negotiate with automated negotiation agents.
Contact
For any questions about ANAC, the main contact is Dr. Reyhan Aydogan reyhan.aydogan[at]ozyegin.edu.tr. For any questions about this submission system, the main contact is Yasser Mohammad y.mohammad[at]nec.com
