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PAAMS 2011

9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

http://www.paams.net
e-mail: paams at usal.es

Salamanca (Spain), 6-8th April, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be completed)
Professor Mario Tokoro - Keio University and President of Sony Computer Laboratories Inc. (Japan)
Professor Vic Callaghan - University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Professor Amy Neustein - Linguistic Technology Systems (USA)
Professor Ajith Abraham - MIR Labs, Europe

CALL FOR AWARDS AND GRANTS
PAAMS 2011 offers 20 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.

SCOPE
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become the international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

TOPICS
Problems
  Agent-based simulation and prediction
  Distributed problem solving
  Agent cooperation and negotiation
  Agent societies and social networks
  Real-time multi-agent systems
  Human agent interaction, user interfaces
  Adaptation, learning and personalization
  Reputation, trust, privacy and security
  Agent engineering and development tools
  Evaluation, ethical and legal issues
Domains
  Information recovery and information systems
  Knowledge management and data intensive systems
  Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
  Embodied agents and autonomous systems
  Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
  Internet softbots and web intelligence
  Virtual agents, animation and games
  Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
  E-learning and educational systems
  User-centered applications and assisting agents

SUBMISSION
Review process
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Types of submissions
  Regular Paper: They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
  Doctoral Papers: PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts.
Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2011 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing.
PAAMS is listed in the Computer Science Conference Ranking as one of the top conferences in Artificial Intelligence (Position 52).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2010
Camera-Ready papers due: December 30, 2010
Conference Celebration: April 6-8, 2011

COMMITTEES
Program
Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Michal Pechoucek - Czek Republic Univeristy in Prague (Czek Republic)
Organization
Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Javier Bajo - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

CONTACT
Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Web: http://www.paams.net
Email: paams at usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34 618 696589 Fax: +34 923 294514