[agents] Cfp: WESAAC 2021 - 15th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications

[Maiquel De Brito]

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First Call for Papers
---  WESAAC-2021  ---
    15th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications

        http://wesaac.ufsc.br/2021/

          Rio de Janeiro, RJ -- Brazil
             10-12th of August 2021

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Venue
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The WESAAC 2021 will be held virtually.

Motivation
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Many current computational systems no longer depend on human intervention
to operate in complex dynamic environments. Some of the key features that
allow such systems to operate autonomously include the ability to make
rational decisions and to react to changes in a timely way. In that
respect, agent systems and multi-agent environments provide a computing
paradigm that supports the development of intelligent systems that are able
to cope with the complexities associated with such dynamic scenarios.


Aims
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The area of agent-based systems is widely known and has numerous papers
published internationally every year. However, nationally there are few
events in this area and no other national event also provides tutorials and
short courses specifically on the main topics of research within Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. WESAAC is therefore of great importance as
a national event in this area, aiming to both prepare future generations of
Brazilian researchers and to disseminate the current projects of Brazilian
researchers. WESAAC aims to be a forum for the discussion of work at all
levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being
conducted. Fundamentally, WESAAC is the best opportunity for Brazilian
undergraduate and especially graduate students to attend courses by some
of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout the world.


Topics of Interest
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Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous
agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to):

* agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated
reasoning)
* cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation)
* agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms,
tools, methodologies)
* agent organizations, societal issues, normative systems, etc.
* agent communication
* social simulations and agent-based simulation
* (formal) specification and verification of multi-agent systems
* machine learning  in agent systems
* automated planning in agent systems
* applications of agents and multi-agent systems


Paper Submission
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Researchers and students are invited to submit papers in Portuguese or
English, as a PDF file formatted according to the SBC style (compulsory)
available at
http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos

The proceedings will be published electronically.
Two separate tracks have been created for paper submission: (i) full papers
and (ii) short papers (i.e., extended abstracts).

Full papers, reporting work with solid results must have no more than 12
pages.

Short papers, reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have
between 4 and 6 pages. Both full and short papers will be presented orally
in plenary sessions.

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair using the following url:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wesaac2021


Conference Indexing
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WESAAC is indexed at Qualis Conferences (as B4).


Important Dates
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Abstract Submission Deadline: April 5th, 2021
Paper Submission Deadline: April 12th, 2021
Notification to authors: June 23th, 2021
Final Version Deadline: July 5th, 2021


Program
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To be announced.


Committee
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Chairs: Carlos Pantoja (CEFET-RJ)
Programme Committee Chair: Maiquel de Brito (UFSC) e Maicon Zatelli (UFSC)


Contact
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wesaac.mkt at gmail.com
pantoja at cefet-rj.br
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