[agents] [WESAAC-2014] 2nd CFP

[Viviane Torres da Silva]

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             Second Call for Papers  ---  WESAAC-2014
  8th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications

                    Porto Alegre, RS -- Brazil
                       28-30th of May 2014
             <http://www.pucrs.br/eventos/wesaac2014>
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************ IMPORTANT NEWS: ************
- IFAAMAS Student Scholarships Available!
  We are grateful to IFAAMAS (http://www.ifaamas.org) for supporting WESAAC.
  With their kind support, we will be able to provide up to 40 students with
  free registration and up to 10 student scholarships of BRL 400.00 to help
with
  travel to WESAAC-2014. To apply for free registration and the travel
support,
  please email <wesaac.2014 at gmail.com>. For the travel grants, priority
will be
  given to students presenting papers. The criteria to award the travel
  scholarships include the average review mark of the paper and travel
distance.

- The invited talks and courses have been announced!
  Invited Talks:
  * "Negotiation and Search" - Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Espanha)
  * "Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations" - Wamberto Vasconcelos
(U.Aberdeen, UK)
  * "Multi-Agent Oriented Coordination" - Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St.
Etienne, França)
  * "Para uma Noção de Modularidade em Sistemas Multiagentes" - A.C. Rocha
Costa (FURG)

  Invited Courses:
  * "Electronic Institutions" - Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Espanha)
  * "Normative Multi-Agent Systems" - Wamberto Vasconcelos (U.Aberdeen, UK)
  * "Organisation-Oriented Programming" - Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St.
Etienne, França)
  * "Programação de Sistemas Multi-Agentes" - Jomi Fred Hubner (UFSC)
  * "Engenharia de Software Orientada a Agentes" - Anarosa Brandão (USP)
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Important Dates
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Abstract submission:       1st of April, 2014
Paper submission:          7th of April, 2014
Notification to authors:  28th of April, 2014
Camera ready version:     11th of May,   2014


Motivation
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Many current computational systems no longer depend on human intervention
to operate in complex dynamic environments. Some of the key features that
allow such systems to operate autonomously include the ability to make
rational decisions and to react to changes in a timely way. In that
respect, agent systems and multi-agent environments provide a computing
paradigm that supports the development of intelligent systems that are able
to cope with the complexities associated with such dynamic scenarios.


Aims
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The area of agent-based systems is widely known and has numerous papers
published internationally every year. However, nationally there are few
events in this area and no other national event also provides tutorials and
short courses specifically on the main topics of research within autonomous
agents and multi-agent systems. WESAAC is therefore of great importance as
a national event in this area, aiming to both prepare future generations of
Brazilian researchers and to disseminate the current projects of Brazilian
researchers. WESAAC aims to be a forum for the discussion of work at all
levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being
conducted. Fundamentally, WESAAC is the best opportunity for Brazilian
undergraduate and specially postgraduate students to attend courses by some
of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout the world.


Topics of Interest
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Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous
agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to):

* agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated
reasoning)
* cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation)
* agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms,
tools, methodologies)
* agent organisations, societal issues, normative systems, etc.
* agent communication
* social simulations and agent-based simulation
* (formal) specification and verification of multi-agent systems
* machine learning and automated planning in agent systems
* applications of agents and multi-agent systems


Committees
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General Chair: Rafael H. Bordini (PUCRS)

Programme Committee Chair: Viviane Torres da Silva (UFF)

Local Chair: Felipe Meneguzzi (PUCRS)

WESAAC Steering Committee:
Rejane Frozza (UNISC)
João Luis Tavares da Silva (UCS)
Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG)
Gustavo Alberto Gimênez Lugo (UTFPR)
Jomi Fred Hübner (UFSC)


Paper Submission
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Researchers and students are invited to submit papers in Portuguese or
English, as a PDF file formatted according to the SBC style (compulsory)
available at <
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38
>.

The proceedings are published electronically (with an ISBN). Three separate
tracks have been created for paper submission: (i) full papers, (ii) short
papers (i.e., extended abstracts), and (iii) short papers written by
*undergraduate* students.

Full papers, reporting work with solid results, must have no more than 12
pages and will be presented orally in a plenary session. Short papers,
reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have between 4 and 6 pages
and will be presented in poster sessions.

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair <
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wesaac2014>. For queries
related to paper submission, please send an email to <
wesaac2014.pcchair at gmail.com>. For general queries, please email <
wesaac.2014 at gmail.com>.