[agents] CfP International Workshop on Issues with Deployment of Emerging Agent-based Systems -- IDEAS'2017

[Ana Bazzan]

Call For Papers
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Submissions are invited for the 2017 International Workshop on Issues 
with Deployment of Emerging Agent-based Systems (IDEAS 2017)

http://cse.unl.edu/agents/IDEAS2017

The IDEAS workshop aims to discuss a set of challenging topics related 
to the application of intelligent agent and multiagent technologies to 
solving real-world problems and producing deployed applications. The 
workshop will serve as both (1) a forum for discussing and sharing 
cutting edge applied agent research (including a place to discuss 
difficult challenges necessary to overcome to produce real-world 
systems, as well as lessons learned from initial deployments), as well 
as (2) an incubator for Innovative Applications Track research to be 
presented at future AAMAS conferences.

The primary aim of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to provide a place for 
researchers working towards applying agent technologies in real-world 
problems to discuss and share their work, providing a more targeted 
meeting complementary to the general AAMAS conference, and (2) an 
incubator for developing research and manuscripts worthy of publication 
in the Innovative Applications Track at future AAMAS conferences.

The IDEAS workshop series is of interest to a broad range of researchers 
and practitioners of intelligent agents and multiagent systems, 
including (1) computer scientist academics applying their AI/MAS 
research to real-world problems (e.g., roboticists, software engineers), 
(2) interdisciplinary researchers combining AI/MAS with various 
disciplines (e.g., computer aided education, manufacturing, smart 
energy, e-commerce, e-healthy, survey informatics, intelligent user 
interfaces), and (3) engineers and scientists from private companies and 
public organizations performing agent-based research and development, as 
well as building real commercial systems.

Additional information (e.g., 2015 and 2016 workshops, committee 
members) can be found at http://cse.unl.edu/agents/IDEAS2017

Topics
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We encourage submissions related, but not limited to, the following:

1. Descriptions of real-world intelligent agent and multiagent systems 
deployed to real-world applications, including:
* novel applications of MAS systems,
* novel inspirations for deployed MAS-based solutions,
* novel uses of intelligent agents,
* prototypes of developed systems, and
* results from existing deployments

2. Real-World Challenges to Deploying Applied Agent Systems, including:
* modeling and addressing complex environment properties (multiple 
sources and high levels of uncertainty, noise, non-stationarity, 
real-time constraints, limited resources),
* needs for security, robustness, and scalability, and
* evaluating the correctness, effectiveness, and efficiency of deployed 
systems

3. Lessons learned from deployed (or emerging) systems, including:
* why a particular deployment might or might not have succeeded (or 
would have succeeded with important changes uncovered in hindsight),
* how improvements might be made to the system for future deployments, and
* how new tests might be conducted to better evaluate or test the system

4. Testbeds for applied agent systems, including:
* custom or reusable testbeds for evaluating agents in simulated 
real-world environments,
* challenges associated to developing such testbeds and in properly 
evaluating real-world performance,
* types of problems that can be studied using such testbeds, and
* comparative studies of testbeds in investigating issues of applied 
agent systems

Submission Instructions
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Each IDEAS submission will be reviewed by two members of the expert 
program committee. Contributors may submit either full papers (no longer 
than 8 pages) or a position statement (no longer than 4 pages) that 
outlines their interests, background, and discussion of an aspect of the 
workshop theme. Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using the 
same ACM proceedings format used by AAMAS. Formatting instructions, as 
well as the style and sample files, can be found here:

http://www.aamas2017.org/submission-instructions_aamas2017.php

Papers submitted should be in PDF format, and must be submitted through 
our dedicated EasyChair site, here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ideas20170

Submitted papers should give full names and contact details for all 
authors. At least one author of each accepted papers must register for 
the workshop.

The most Òvisionary paperÓ will be published by Springer in a book under 
the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Hot Topics series. 
The book will be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the 
AAMAS2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each 
AAMAS2017 workshop.

Additionally, the Òbest paperÓ will be published by Springer in a book 
under the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 
series. The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the 
AAMAS2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each 
AAMAS2017 workshop.

Authors of the selected most visionary paper and the best paper are 
expected to provide their latex files promptly upon request.