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Third Announcement!!

Please get UMIE2006-Overview

What is UMIE 2006?

The U-Mart project has successfully held four domestic open experiments in Japan (Pre U-Mart 2000, UMart2001, U-Mart 2002 and U-Mart 2003) and two international open experiment in CASOS 2002 Conference (UMIE2002) ,NAACSOS Conference (UMIE2003) and WEIHA2004&AESCS2004(UMIE2004)as contests of trading agents, 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 the second international open experiment of the U-Mart, i.e., contest of trading agents, in Social Informatics Fair 2006 in Kyoto University in September 2006.

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 UMIE2005 calls for participation of trading software agents. 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 U-Mart 2006 session in Socail Informatics Fair 2006. 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 UMIE2006

Chair:Hajime Kita (National Institution of Academic Degrees, JAPAN)

Hiroshi Deguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN)

Takao Terano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN)
Rober Axtell (The Brookings Institution, USA)

Kathleen M. Carley (Carnegie Melon University, USA)

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

Yoshinori Shiozawa (Osaka City University, JAPAN)

Maksim Tsvetovat (Carnegie Melon University, USA)

Chair:Hiroyuki Matsui (Kyoto University, JAPAN)

Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, JAPAN)

Naolo Mori (Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN)
Isao Ono (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN)

Yoshihiro Nakajima(Osaka City University, JAPAN)

Secretariat of UMIE2006:

Hiroyuki MATSUI(Kyoto Univ. JAPAN) &

Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, JAPAN)

E-Mail: umie2006@u-mart.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp

How to participate in UMIE2006?

(1)First, please obtain UMIE2006-overview.pdf from U-Mart Web Page (http://www.u-mart.org/html/umie2006/)

(2)Second, obtain developer's kit for U-Mart trading agent, according to directions of UMIE2006-overview.pdf.

This kit includes:
* Documents of the U-Mart system,
* Description of the contest specification of UMIE2006,
* Standalone U-Mart simulator for developers(including GUI analyzing tool),
* Sample trading strategies for the standalone simulators.
* 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,

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, please access to U-Mart development kit Page(http://www.u-mart.org/html/u-mart-kit/index-e.html)

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 UMIE2006. With all the submitted agents, U-Mart experiments are carried out in advance, and the results are reported in the U-Mart 2006 session in Socail Informatics fair 2006. UMIE2006 requires that both the submitted agents and their description can be open to public for further study.

(4)UMIE2006 participating application will be accepted from August 7, 2006.

Please access to UMIE2006 Entry Page

Social Informatics Fair 2006

September 12-14, 2006
Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN

Social Informatics is an area spreading on the boundary between Informatics and Social Science. In order to share research motivations and results, and to discuss the future of Social Informatics, we will hold Social Informatics Fair which consists of various events, Invited Talks and Exhibitions. The first JASI & JSIS Joint Annual Convention will be held in the Fair.

Events

JASI and JSIS Joint Annual Convention
JASI Convention
JSIS Convention
International Symposium on Social Informatics
The Third Information Property Forum
Next Generation Content Service Platform Forum
Electronic Intellectual Property SIG Special Symposium on "Information Technology and Mechanism Design"
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing SIG Workshop on "InterSociety 2005"
"Massive Sensing: Light and Shadow of Embedded Sensors Swarming into Society"
Symposium on Personal Information Protection
On the Formation of "Public Opinion" in the Multimedia Environment
U-Mart2006
Web Community Structure and Network Analysis Workshop
Workshop on Analytical Methodologies for CMC and HCI Studies
Symposium on "We Learned Social Informatics!"