[agents] DEMAS - CALL FOR PAPERS

[Laurent Perrussel]

Call for Contributions
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Special track
DEMAS: Deliberative Multi-Agent Systems

Chair and Coordinator
Prof. Dra. Jerusa Marchi, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
jerusa.marchi at ufsc.br

Co-chair:
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Silveira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
ricardo.silveira at ufsc.br

along with
ICAS 2017, May 21 - 25, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain
The Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ICAS17.html


The purpose of the DEMAS, Deliberative Multi-Agent Systems, special 
track is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners 
interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and 
Multi-Agent Systems based on deliberative architectures. The track 
focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, 
Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and other topics related to 
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems based on deliberative architectures.
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. This special track intends to 
emphasize the connection between theoretical issues on deliberative 
multi agent systems and their connection with systems automation, 
methodologies and techniques
for designing, implementing and deploying autonomous systems.

In this special track, the objective of contributions is to discuss the 
following topics related to the design, implementation and deploying of 
autonomous systems:

- Distributed Problem Solving
- Agent Communication Languages
- Agent Models and Architectures
- Cooperation and Coordination
- Conversational Agents
- Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
- Programming Environments and Languages
- Task Planning and Execution
- Truth
- Emotions
- Belief Change
- Ontologies and Semantic Web
- Group Decision Making

Important Datelines
- Submission: February 3, 2017
- Notification with comments for camera-ready: March 3, 2017
- Registration: March 18, 2017
- Camera ready: April 9, 2017

Contribution Types
- Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]

Paper Format
- See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html
- Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

Publications
- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA 
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
- Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: 
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
- Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital 
Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Paper Submission
https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICAS+2017+Special
Please select Track Preference as DEMAS

Registration
- Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the 
camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings.
- Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html


Contact
Prof. Dra. Jerusa Marchi, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
jerusa.marchi at ufsc.br