[agents] EMAS 2019: First Call for Papers

[Louise Dennis]

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CFP - 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems 
(EMAS 2019)
Co-located with AAMAS 2019
13th-14th of May, 2019, Montreal, Canada

Info: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019
Contact: emas.aamas2019 at gmail.com
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A main unifying theme underlying Artificial Intelligence and Machine 
Learning is the idea of an intelligent agent able to reason, act, 
interact, and learn. This metaphor has stimulated much research in AI 
and particularly in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), 
giving rise to research in agent-oriented software engineering, 
programming multi-agent systems, and declarative agent languages and 
technologies.

EMAS 2019 aims to gather researchers and practitioners working in these 
areas 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.

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 a detailed list of subtopics, see 
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019/cfp.html

SUBMISSIONS

We solicit four 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 under specific review guidelines (8 pages in 
LNCS format).
- Doctoral project papers should describe a research effort of an MSc 
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 their 
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 2019 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 review process is single blind: submissions should not be 
blind, reviewers will be.
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=emas2019. 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 (16 pages long)
- SHORT for short papers (8 pages long)
- DOCTORAL for doctoral project papers (6 pages long)
- DEMO for tools, testbeds, and demo papers (4 pages long)

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


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 12 Feb, 2019
Notification: 10 March, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: 1 April, 2019
EMAS: 13-14 May, 2019


COMMITTEES

Organising Committee

Rafael H. Bordini, PUCRS, Brazil (http://www.inf.pucrs.br/r.bordini)
Louise Dennis, University of Liverpool, UK 
(http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/index.html)
Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~lesperan)

EMAS Steering Committee

Matteo Baldoni
Rafael Bordini
Mehdi Dastani
Jürgen Dix
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Brian Logan
Jörg P. Müller
Ingrid Nunes
Alessandro Ricci
M. Birna Van Riemsdijk
Danny Weyns
Michael Winikoff
Rym Zalila-Wenkstern



-- 
Dr. Louise Dennis,
Department of Computer Science, Room G22, Ashton Building, University of  Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX,  UK.
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/