Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Principles and Practice of Multi‐Agent Systems (PRIMA 2016) August 22‐26, 2016, Phuket, Thailand URL: http://prima2016.di.unito.it
Co‐located with PRICAI 2016 (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are becoming more decentralized, with components that represent autonomous entities who must communicate among themselves to achieve their goals. Examples of such systems range from healthcare and emergency relief and disaster management to e‐business and smarts grids. A multiagent worldview is crucial to properly conceptualizing, building, and governing such systems. It offers abstractions such as intelligent agent, protocol, norm, organization, trust, incentive, and so on, and is rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations. As a large but still growing research field of Computer Science, multiagent systems today remains a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research. The PRIMA 2016 Program Committee invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to multi-agent systems, including reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. An indicative list of topics is provided below. For 2016, there will be Social Science special track that will be handled by Michael Mäs (University of Groningen). Accepted papers of this track will be offered a fast track in JASSS. Papers should be at most 16 pages in length in the Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNAI series. A select number of papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a fast track of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi‐Agent Systems and ACM TAAS. There will be also be two special issues: one with Fundamenta Informaticae and another with International Journal of Agent‐Oriented Software Engineering. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest (not limited to the following) ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Logic and Reasoning - Logics of agency - Logics of multiagent systems - Norms - Argumentation - Computational Game Theory - Uncertainty in Agent Systems - Agent and Multi-Agent Learning * Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - Agent-Oriented Software Engineering - Interaction protocols - Commitments - Institutions and Organizations - Normative Systems - Formal Specification and Verification - Agent Programming Languages - Middleware and Platforms - Testing, debugging, and evolution - Deployed System Case Studies * Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation - Simulation Languages and Platforms - Artificial Societies - Virtual Environments - Emergent Behavior - Modeling System Dynamics - Application Case Studies * Collaboration & Coordination - Planning - Distributed Problem Solving - Distributed Constraint Satisfaction - Teamwork - Coalition Formation - Negotiation - Auctions and Mechanism Design - Trust and Reputation - Computational Voting Theory * Human-Agent Interaction - Adaptive Personal Assistants - Embodied Conversational Agents - Virtual Characters - Multimodal User Interfaces - Mobile Agents - Human-Robot Interaction * Decentralized Paradigms - Grid Computing - Service-Oriented Computing - Cybersecurity - Robotics and Multirobot Systems - Ubiquitous Computing - Social Computing - Internet of Things * Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems - Healthcare - Autonomous Systems - Transport and Logistics - Emergency and Disaster Management - Energy and Utilities Management - Sustainability and Resource Management - Games and Entertainment - e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning - Smart Cities - Financial markets - Legal applications ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of papers: 15 April 2016 Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2016 Camera‐ready version: 30 June 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------------- Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------------- Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino) Amit K. Chopra (Lancaster University) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University)
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