[agents] [Industrial Applications Track AAMAS18] CFP: Industrial Applications Track AAMAS-18 ***** Extended Deadlines *****

[Jordi Sabater-Mir]

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Industrial Applications Track of AAMAS 2018: July 10-15, 2018 in Stockholm
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EXTENDED DEADLINES

If your products involve agent technology, the message might be of interest to 
you!

Present your applications/prototypes at the most influential agents conference 
and get in touch with junior and senior researchers in the field. Explore 
opportunities for future collaborations and meet your future employees. 

http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/callForPapers/#industrialApplications


About AAMAS
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AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and 
multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging 
three highly respected meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent 
Systems (ICMAS); the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, 
and Languages (ATAL); and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). 
The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally 
respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of 
autonomous agents and multiagent systems. This edition will be a part of the 
Federated AI Meeting (FAIM) where AAMAS is co-located with several AI conferences 
including the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)/European 
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) and the International Conference on 
Machine Learning (ICML).

In addition to the main conference, AAMAS 2018 will include:

- Workshops
- Tutorials
- System demonstrations
- Poster presentations for full papers and extended abstracts
- Invited talks and panel discussions

In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS 2018 will also have a special 
track on Industrial Applications.


Special Track on Industrial Applications
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The Industrial Applications Track invites industry practitioners and researchers 
to present application work that is deployed or on the verge of being deployed and 
uses agents/multi-agent systems technology in practice. Research from, and relevant 
to, the AAMAS community has permeated a variety of domains and applications, both 
as central to the application and in key supportive roles. For example, the community
pursues research in topics including optimization, resource allocation, cognitive 
intelligence, learning, agent-based simulation, and game-theoretic equilibrium 
computation, and applies them in domains such as traffic routing, automotive 
systems, security, biomedicine, robotics, financial management, and internet market 
design. Ideas and technologies from this research are responsible for significant 
revenue-generation and cost-saving, as well as for supporting important public 
policy and business strategy decision-making. We are interested in hearing about 
how agent and multi-agent approaches transition into practice and what the current 
problems of interest are. This special track provides the ideal forum to present, 
discuss, and demonstrate compelling applications, agent system deployment experiences, 
and new business ideas. The goal is to promote the fostering of mutually-beneficial 
relationships between those doing foundational scientific research and those using 
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in real-world commercial, non-profit, or 
government applications. 

Submitted material will be evaluated based on the use of agent/multi-agent systems 
technology for real problems over a reasonable duration, evidence of impact, and 
lessons for the agents/multi-agents community about what worked and what did not. 
Contributors will be given the opportunity to present their application at the 
conference. In addition to this, the track will offer the following features: 

- There will be a special award for the best industrial application contribution. 
- Attendees will be offered the opportunity to participate in special events 
(e.g. company academia speed dating and a demo session) bringing industrial partners, 
students and academics in contact. 
 There will be joint panel session with practitioners and academics to discuss 
 current trends in academia and industry and how to establish beneficial 
 collaborations between industry and academia. 

Submission Instructions for Industrial Applications: 

- Authors should submit a presentation of their work in whatever electronic medium 
best shows the AAMAS relevant features of the application, whether a video, PPT, 
deployment, webpage or software. Acceptance to the track will be determined based 
on both the degree to which interesting agent technologies feature in and improve 
the deployed system, as well as the benefit to the community to understanding the 
challenges and solutions in the application.

- Authors must submit a one page document accompanying the primary submission, briefly 
summarizing what interesting agent technologies are featured in the deployed system 
and the impacts those technologies have had.

-  Optionally, authors can submit an extended abstract (2 pages) or a full paper 
(8 pages), following the standard AAMAS submission instructions, describing the 
application at a more scientific level. Such papers will undergo a regular reviewing 
process with program committee members specially selected for the track. All accepted 
papers for the special track will be included in the proceedings. Detailed instructions 
can be found at: http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/submissions/

The submission tool for all material (video, PPT, one page description as well 
as optional paper) is confmaster. If you don't have a login to this tool, you will 
be requested to make an account. 

Note that at least one of the authors of each submission is required to register, 
attend, and present the work at the conference.


Important Dates for the Industrial Applications Track
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Abstract Submission: 25th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12)
Short/Full Paper Submission: 25th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12)
Presentation and one page summary: 10th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12)
Rebuttal Phase (short/full paper): 9th-10th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12)
Author Notification: 24th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12)


----- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

AAMAS 18 General Chairs:
Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany) 
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)

AAMAS 18 Program Chairs:
Mehdi Dastani (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) 
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA)

AAMAS 18 Local Chair:
Franziska Kluegl (Orebro University, Sweden)

AAMAS 18 Industrial Applications Track Chairs:
Nils Bulling (TU Clausthal, Germany) 
Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)


The full AAMAS 2018 Call for Papers, along with descriptions of the special tracks 
and all topics of interest, can be found at:

aamas18.ifaamas.org
@AAMAS2018
#aamas2018