AAMAS Proceedings

The AAMAS 2010 proceedings are now available online.

Shohan and Leyton-Brown Textbook Free PDF

Somehow I had missed that you can download a free PDF of the Shoham and Leyton-Brown multiagent systems textbook. There you go, just in time for summer poolside reading season.

Market and Social Systems Engineering Program

The University of Pennsylvania will be starting a new program in market and social systems engineering. It seems to be geared towards a subset of multiagent researchers, those more interested in incentives and in building human-computer systems:

“Traditional programs don’t prepare students to design systems that take into account the goals and incentives of the people who use them,” said Michael Kearns, professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the program’s founding faculty director. “We haven’t asked engineering students to take a course in game theory to understand how incentives work or in sociology to understand human behavior. There is now enough science out there on the intersection of these topics to design undergraduate courses.”

Find out more by reading their press release and browsing the MKSE website.

Networks, Crowds, and Markets Book

The book titled Networks, Crowds, and Markets by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg is now available to download freely from the link above. The current version is a pre-publication draft.

As is evident from reading the outline, there is a lot of overlap between the research present in this book and multiagent research. They both deal with game theory, auctions, markets, bargaining and, most importantly, search in networks, albeit from different perspectives.

AAMAS facebook group

There is now a AAMAS facebook group. Go and try to post something funny about multiagent systems, I challenge you.

Algorithmic Game Theory Classes

Via the AGT blog, here is a list of classes about algorithmic game theory and multiagent systems.

Aroxo

Looks like Nick Jennings used his expertise in automated negotiation to help build Aroxo, a web application that lets agents negotiate a deal for you. More info at this BBC news article.

E-Commerce Conference Papers

The Games and Economic Behavior journal has a special issue on the 8th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, edited by David C. Parkes and Moshe Tennenholtz.