Wanted!
Challenger and Agent

Please get UMIE2002-Overview

umie2002sdk020516, U-Mart Client Wrapper Program(for_real_u-mart) and umie2002sdkn020516(Network server and humans client) released

What is UMIE 2002?

The U-Mart project has successfully held two domestic open experiments as contests of trading agents in Japan (Pre U-Mart 2000 and U-Mart 2001), and possibility of this approach is confirmed. The U-Mart system is also used as an effective education tool both in schools of economics and computer science in several universities in Japan.

Based on the above experience, we have decided to have an international open experiment of the U-Mart: ``U-Mart International Experiment 2002(UMIE2002)''
at CASOS 2002 Conference held in Carnegie Melon University in June 2002.

The aims of this experiment are:

1. to share an artificial market system as a common test bed for agent-based simulation,
   
2. to share variation of trading strategies, and methodologies for developing them for artificial market study, and
   
3. to know complex behavior of the market consisting of agents having various trading strategies.

The UMIE2002 calls for participation of trading software agents during these
three months. With submitted agents, a demonstrative contest is held at
the site of the conference. Also, the committee carries out intensive
experiments with the submitted agents for various market situations in advance, and the results are reported at CASOS2002 conference.
Furthermore, all the codes and documents of the submitted agents also will be
shared by all the participants for further study on the artificial market.

Organization of UMIE2002

Chair:Takao Terano (Univ. of Tsukuba, JAPAN)
Rober Axtell (The Brookings Institution, USA)

Kathleen M. Carley (Carnegie Melon University, USA)

Hiroshi Deguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN)

Peter Dittrich (F.-S.-U. Jena, Germany)

Hajime Kita (National Institution of Academic Degrees, JAPAN)

Yoshinori Shiozawa (Osaka City University, JAPAN)

Maksim Tsvetovat (Carnegie Melon University, USA)

Chair:Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, JAPAN)
Hiroyuki Matsui (Kyoto University, JAPAN)

Naolo Mori (Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN)
Isao Ono (University of Tokushima, JAPAN)

Secretariat of UMIE2002:

Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, JAPAN) &

Hiroyuki MATSUI(Kyoto Univ. JAPAN)

E-Mail: umie2002@u-mart.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp

How to participate in UMIE2002?

(1)First, please obtain UMIE2002-overview.pdf from U-Mart Web Page (http://www.u-mart.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/umie2002/)

(2)Second, obtain developer's kit for U-Mart trading agent, according to directions of UMIE2002-overview.pdf.

This kit includes:
* Documents of the U-Mart system,
* Description of the contest specification of UMIE2002,
* Standalone U-Mart simulator for developers(including GUI analyzing tool),
* Sample trading strategies for the standalone simulators.

Further, we are also planing to distribute
* The U-Mart server over TCP/IP,
* Java API for client programs that communicates the U-Mart server over TCP/IP,
* Sample agents using the API,
* GUI clients for manual trading and monitoring,
* Wrapper program to make the strategy developed with the standalone kit U-Mart clients.

All the documents are in English, and the programs are mainly coded in Java.
With this kit, you can develop your own U-Mart clients.

(3)To obtain the developer's kit, send e-mail identifying, after we send E-Mail with account and password to access http://www.u-mart.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/umie2002/kit/

Name,
Affiliation,
Postal Address,
Telephone and FAX (with country code), and
e-mail

to umie2002@u-mart.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp for registration. After completion of registration,the We sent the document of how to get U-Mart developer's kit The registered person is also added to the mailing list of the U-Mart 2002 at CMU for communication on the UMIE2002 and the U-Mart system. Registration is needed to be a user of the kit, and it doesn't means participation to UMIE2002 by itself.

Second, submit your U-Mart clients (Java source code) and document of the strategies(more 1 page in A4 or Letter paper every 1 agent, in PostScript or PDF, Please make a sample reference ) to the secretariat of the UMIE2002 at CMU. With all the submitted agents, U-Mart experiments are carried out in advance, and the results are reported in the CASOS2002 conference. UMIE2002 at CMU requires that both the submitted agents and their description can be open to public for further study.

(4)UMIE2002 participating application will be accepted from May 1, 2002.

Please access to UMIE2002 Entry Page

Schedule about UMIE 2002?

April 8th, 2002

Public Presentation of Time Schedule Participating Method (CFP)
Start of distribution of developer's kit(umie2002sdk).

April 21th, 2002

Release the additional kit for contest and developing

April 30th, 2002

Release the network-capable development kit (include The U-Mart server over TCP/IP and others)

May 1-20, 2002

Entry, deadline of agents: May 20, 2002

June 21-23, 2002

Distribution of experiment result & Demonstration session at CASOS 2002 Conference

About CASOS2002

This is a yearly conference in the computational social systems area. Co-Organizers:
Kathleen M. Carley and Michael J. Prietula

Purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is twofold: first, to present the latest developments in
mathematical and computational organizational theory, and second, to critique the
contribution of mathematical and computational models to organization theory and
explore its future.

Rationale:
A fundamental perspective for the multi-agent organization has been
characterizined on the principles of bounded rationality and satisficing. Recent
advances in cognitive science and computer science, however, have provided us with
richer and more precise models of intelligent agents. Organizational theorists now
have the opportunity to combine these models with more traditional models of
organizations to address such issues as coordination, negotiation, organizational
design, organizational communication, and organizational learning. The purpose of the
workshop is to explore these opportunities.