[agents] CFP ICAART 2013 - 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

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          CALL FOR PAPERS

       5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2013

                  Website: http://www.icaart.org/

                    February  15 - 18, 2013
                          Barcelona, Spain

Important Deadlines: 

Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2012 (extended)
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 24, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 14, 2012 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC- Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

fiPa- Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition

OMG- Object Management Group

In Cooperation with:

AAAI- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.

A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer-Verlag. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/.

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal 

PROGRAM CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal 

Keynote SPEAKERS

Elias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States
Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.

AWARDS
Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. 
Please check the website for further information (http://www.icaart.org/best_paper_awards.asp).

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. AGENTS
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AREA 1: AGENTS

    Agent Models and Architectures
    Agent Communication Languages
    Distributed Problem Solving
    Collective Intelligence
    Semantic Web
    Simulation
    Multi-Agent Systems
    Privacy, safety and security
    Mobile Agents
    Economic Agent Models
    Auctions and Markets
    SOA and Software Agents
    Agent Platforms and Interoperability
    Web Intelligence
    Group Decision Making
    Physical Agents
    Robot and Multi-robot Systems
    Self Organizing Systems
    Cognitive Robotics
    Autonomous Systems
    Task Planning and Execution
    Programming Environments and Languages
    Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
    Conversational Agents
    Cooperation and Coordination
    Cloud Computing

AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

    Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
    Ontologies
    Model-Based Reasoning
    Uncertainty in AI
    Bayesian Networks
    Ambient Intelligence
    Reactive AI
    Hybrid Intelligent Systems
    Planning and Scheduling
    Case-Based Reasoning
    Machine Learning
    Pattern Recognition
    Vision and Perception
    AI and Creativity
    Expert Systems
    Soft Computing
    Fuzzy Systems
    Neural Networks
    Evolutionary Computing
    Intelligent User Interfaces
    Natural language processing
    Cognitive Systems
    State Space Search
    Constraint Satisfaction
    Data Mining
    Industrial applications of AI

Program Committee

http://www.icaart.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

(list not yet complete)

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icaart.org).