[agents] EMAS 2018 final call for papers

Tue May 8 08:19:05 EDT 2018

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CFP - 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems 
(EMAS 2018)
Co-located with IJCAI/ECAI, AAMAS, and ICML 2018
14th-15th of July, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

Info: EMAS2018.dibris.unige.it
Contact: EMAS-2018 at cs.kuleuven.be
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A main unifying theme underlying AI is the idea of an intelligent agent 
able to reason, act, interact, and learn. This metaphor makes 
intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MASs) appealing for all 
those researchers and practitioners working in the domains of 
agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, 
declarative agent languages and technologies, machine learning, and AI 
in general.

EMAS 2018 aims to gather researchers and practitioners working in these 
domains to present and discuss their research and emerging results in 
MAS engineering. The overall purpose of this workshop is to facilitate 
the cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields to:
1. Enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering and improve the 
state or-the art;
2. Define new directions for MAS engineering that are useful to 
practitioners, relying in results and recommendations coming from 
different but continuous research areas;
3. Investigate how practitioners can use or need to adapt established 
methodologies for the engineering of large-scale and open MAS;
4. Involve more master and PhD students.

We will organise the two-day workshop in a highly interactive style this 
year with podium time for authors of accepted papers before lunch and 
interactive joint activities after lunch, including breakout groups, a 
fish bow panel, and a demonstration session.

TOPICS
The main topics include but are not limited to:
- Software engineering methodologies and techniques, and development 
concerns for MAS
- Formal methods and declarative technologies for specification, 
verification and engineering of MAS
- Programming frameworks, languages, models and abstractions for all 
aspects of MAS
- Tools and testbeds
- Empirical studies and (industrial) experience reports on engineering 
MAS applications for domains
For a detailed list of subtopics, see 
EMAS2018.dibris.unige.it/index.php/call-for-papers

We highlight three novelties for EMAS 2018:
1. EMAS will organise a joint session with the Goal Reasoning Workshop 
providing the opportunity to the attendees to address the topic of 
“Requirements and Goals for Agent-based Systems: From Specification and 
Design to Runtime Representation and Reasoning.”
2. EMAS will organise a junior track providing an opportunity to Master 
and PhD students to present their ongoing research project.
3. EMAS will organise a tool, testbed, and demonstration session where 
attendees can present novel results on these artefacts.

SUBMISSIONS
We solicit five types of submission:
- Regular papers should (1) clearly describe innovative and original 
research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field, or 
(3) explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world 
case. (16 pages in LNCS format).
- Short papers should describe novel and promising ideas and/or 
techniques that are in an early stage of development. To that end, short 
papers will be reviewed with dedicated review guidelines (8 pages in 
LNCS format).
- Extended abstracts should focus on “Requirements and Goals for 
Agent-based Systems: From Specification and Design to Runtime 
Representation and Reasoning”  (2 pages in LNCS format).
- Doctoral project papers should describe a research effort of a Master 
student or the dissertation research of a PhD student in the field of 
engineering multi-agent systems. The paper should clearly describe the 
problem tackled, a justification why this problem is important, the 
research method, the (expected) contributions of the research, and the 
evaluation. This paper can be co-authored by the student and his 
supervisor(s) only (6 pages in LNCS format).
- Tool, testbeds and demo papers should describe a novel tool or 
demonstration in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. 
Submission may range from early prototypes to in house or 
pre-commercialised products. Authors of other EMAS 2018 papers are also 
welcomed to submit an accompanying tool/demo paper. The paper should 
provide a link to supplementary material that allows the reviewers to 
evaluate the submission such as website or movie link (4 pages in LNCS 
format).

Submission policy: all papers should be original and not be submitted 
elsewhere.  The LNCS formatting style is available via: 
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
The Easychair submission page can be found here: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2018. When you enter the 
title of your paper in the data section in EasyChair, you must add as 
the first word the category to which the paper has been submitted (this 
first word does not need to be included in the submitted paper):
- REGULAR for regular papers
- SHORT for short papers
- EXTENDED for extended abstracts
- DOCTORAL for doctoral project papers
- DEMO for tool, testbeds and demo papers

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit revised and 
extended versions of the EMAS papers for inclusion in the 
post-proceedings that will be published by Springer as a volume in 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 14 May, 2018
Notification: 28 May, 2018
Camera-ready deadline: 15 June, 2018
EMAS: 14-15 July, 2018

COMMITTEES
Organising Committee
- Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Linnaeus 
University Sweden (https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/danny.weyns/)
- Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy 
(http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MascardiV/)
- Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy 
(https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/a.ricci/en)

Program Committee: see http://emas2018.dibris.unige.it/index.php/committees

EMAS Steering Committee
Matteo Baldoni, Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen Dix, Paolo 
Giorgini, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Jorg P. Muller, M. Birna van 
Riemsdijk, Son Tran Cao, Gerhard Weiss, Danny Weyns, Michael Winikoff.