The Automated Negotiation League: Deception in Bilateral Agent Negotiation
*Challenge*: Developing a negotiation agent for bilateral negotiation that
tries to mislead
the opponent
*Submission deadline*: June 1, 2026
*Event*: The Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) 2026 as part
of IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany
*Call for participation details*:
https://scml.cs.brown.edu/files/anl/y2026/2026cfp.pdf
*General website*: https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2026/
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====== Challenge ======
We invite everyone to submit a negotiation agent to The Automated
Negotiation League, held at IJCAI 2026. This year, the challenge is to
design a negotiation agent for bilateral negotiation that tries to mislead
its opponent. The agent is rewarded for the agreement made in the
negotiation, as well as for how well it is able to deceive its opponent.
The challenge is to mislead the opponent, while maximizing reward.
====== Event ======
The competition takes place during IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany, from 15th
to 21st August, 2026. The winners can acquire travel grants to attend the
competition at the IJCAI conference, and possibly give a brief presentation
there.
====== Entrants ======
Entrants to the competition have to develop and submit an autonomous
negotiating agent that runs on NegMAS: a Python-based negotiation platform
in which you can develop general negotiating agents. NegMAS provides a
method to run tournaments in the same settings as this year's ANL
competition. For more information, follow this link:
https://anac.cs.brown.edu/files/anl/y2026/template2026.pdf
The performance of the agents will be evaluated in a tournament between all
participants, where each agent is matched with other submitted agents.
====== Submission (Deadline: June 1, 2026) ======
The competition rules allow multiple entries from a single institution, but
require each agent to be developed independently. Participants submit their
agent source code through the following link: https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl
====== Important Dates ======
Submission deadline: June 1, 2026
Notification to finalists: June 15, 2026
Event: August 15th to 21st, 2026
====== Questions and Answers ======
Participation details: https://scml.cs.brown.edu/files/anl/y2026/2026cfp.pdf
ANAC website: https://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2026/
Get started on the ANL website: https://scml.cs.brown.edu/anl
Look at the FAQ:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e7i1aW5sYZbfiidTBw7IQuO8k3CDfoaPlICkgjgWiZM/edit?usp=sharing
and feel free to ask further questions to us.
Send your questions to:
loes.peters@cwi.nl (main contact)
reyhan.aydogan@ozyegin.edu.tr
katfuji@cc.tuat.ac.jp
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