[agents] PRIMA2017-CFP

[Wang Wanyuan (Dr)]

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Call for Papers: PRIMA 2017 (Nice, France)
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The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
https://prima2017.gforge.uni.lu/
Important Dates
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Submission of papers: June 2nd, 2017
Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2017
Camera-ready version: September 1st, 2017
Conference: October 30th to November 3rd, 2017

About PRIMA:
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Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing distributed computing systems and networks through monitoring, communication, consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As a result, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated the capability to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and other social metaphors like ‘trust’, ‘game’ and ‘institution’, not only to address real-world problems in a human-like way but also to transcend human performance. This has had a transformative impact in many application domains, particularly in e-commerce, and also in planning, logistics, manufacturing, robotics, decision support, transportation, entertainment, emergency relief & disaster management, and data mining & analytics.
The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2017) invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and encourages reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.
Information for Authors
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The PRIMA 2017 Program Committee invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to multiagent systems, including reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. An indicative list of topics is provided below.
Papers should be at most 16 pages in length in the Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNAI series.
Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2017.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Logic and Reasoning
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  *   Logics of agency
  *   Logics of multiagent systems
  *   Norms
  *   Argumentation
  *   Computational Game Theory
  *   Uncertainty in Agent Systems
  *   Agent and Multi-Agent Learning
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
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  *   Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  *   Interaction protocols
  *   Commitments
  *   Institutions and Organizations
  *   Normative Systems
  *   Formal Specification and Verification
  *   Agent Programming Languages
  *   Middleware and Platforms
  *   Testing, debugging, and evolution
  *   Deployed System Case Studies
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
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  *   Simulation Languages and Platforms
  *   Artificial Societies
  *   Virtual Environments
  *   Emergent Behavior
  *   Modeling System Dynamics
  *   Application Case Studies
Collaboration & Coordination
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  *   Planning
  *   Distributed Problem Solving
  *   Teamwork
  *   Coalition Formation
  *   Negotiation
  *   Trust and Reputation
Economic paradigms
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  *   Auctions and mechanism design
  *   Bargaining and negotiation
  *   Behavioral game theory
  *   Cooperative games: theory & analysis
  *   Cooperative games: computation
  *   Noncooperative games: theory & analysis
  *   Noncooperative games: computation
  *   Social choice theory
  *   Game theory for practical applications
Human-Agent Interaction
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  *   Adaptive Personal Assistants
  *   Embodied Conversational Agents
  *   Virtual Characters
  *   Multimodal User Interfaces
  *   Mobile Agents
  *   Human-Robot Interaction
Decentralized Paradigms
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  *   Grid Computing
  *   Service-Oriented Computing
  *   Cybersecurity
  *   Robotics and Multirobot Systems
  *   Ubiquitous Computing
  *   Social Computing
  *   Internet of Things
Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems
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  *   Healthcare
  *   Autonomous Systems
  *   Transport and Logistics
  *   Emergency and Disaster Management
  *   Energy and Utilities Management
  *   Sustainability and Resource Management
  *   Games and Entertainment
  *   e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning
  *   Smart Cities
  *   Financial markets
  *   Legal applications

General Chairs
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Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Serena Villata, Université Côte d’Azur, France

Program Chairs
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Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Bo An, Nanyang Technological University

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