[agents] CFP: PRIMA 2019

[Dastani, M.M. (Mehdi)]

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

The 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2019)
October 28th - October 31st, 2019
Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
http://prima2019.di.unito.it
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Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of
functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are becoming
more decentralized, with components that represent autonomous entities
who must communicate among themselves to achieve their goals. Examples
of such systems range from healthcare and emergency relief and
disaster management to e-business and smarts grids. A multiagent
worldview is crucial to properly conceptualizing, building, and
governing such systems. It offers abstractions such as intelligent
agent, protocol, norm, organization, trust, incentive, and so on, and
is rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations.
As a large but still growing research field of Computer Science,
multiagent systems today remain a unique enabler of interdisciplinary
research.

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: June 30th, 2019 (11:59PM UTC-12)
Notification: August 25th, 2019
Camera ready submission: September 5th, 2019
Conference date: October 28th - 31st, 2019

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Information for Authors
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PRIMA 2019 invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical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.

The papers can be submitted to one of the following categories:

- Regular papers: These papers can be up to 16 pages in length, including
references, in the Springer LNCS format. Note that some regular papers
may be accepted as short papers.

- Short papers: These papers can be up to 8 pages in length, including
references, in the Springer LNCS format. These 'early-innovation' papers
will be reviewed with an emphasis on novelty/originality of the idea.

All the submitted papers must be in a form suitable for double-blind review.
In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors must omit their names and
affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all
published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the
authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one's
own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example,
say "Previously, Foo and Bar [2] have shown that…", rather than "In our
previous work [2] we have shown that...". Such identifying information can
be added back to the final camera-ready version of accepted papers.

The proceedings of the previous editions of the PRIMA conference series
have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
series (LNCS/LNAI). We expected the same for the PRIMA 2019 proceedings.

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Special Issue
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A selected number of papers will also be invited to submit an extended
version to a fast track of some international journal.

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Paper Submission
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Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management
System.

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Chairs
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Program chairs

    Mehdi Dastani
    Beishui Liao
    Rym Zalila-Wenkstern

General chairs

    Matteo Baldoni
    Yuko Sakurai

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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Logic and Reasoning

    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

    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

    Simulation Languages and Platforms
    Artificial Societies
    Virtual Environments
    Emergent Behavior
    Modeling System Dynamics
    Application Case Studies

Collaboration & Coordination

    Planning
    Distributed Problem Solving
    Teamwork
    Coalition Formation
    Negotiation
    Trust and Reputation

Economic paradigms

    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

    Adaptive Personal Assistants
    Embodied Conversational Agents
    Virtual Characters
    Multimodal User Interfaces
    Mobile Agents
    Human-Robot Interaction

Decentralized Paradigms

    Grid Computing
    Service-Oriented Computing
    Cybersecurity
    Robotics and Multirobot Systems
    Ubiquitous Computing
    Social Computing
    Internet of Things

Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems

    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


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Mehdi Dastani
Intelligent Systems
Utrecht University
Princetonplein 5
3584 CC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 - 30 - 253 3599
URL: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MMDastani


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