[agents] CFP: MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA @ EPIA2022)

[Jomi Fred Hubner]

12th Thematic Track on
MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA @ EPIA2022)
August 31 - September 2, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Aims and Scope
Research on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has a vigorous, exciting tradition and has led to important theories and systems. However, new trends and concerns are still emerging and form the basis of current and future research. The 12th thematic track on “MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications”, to take place at EPIA 2022, will provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work in all areas of MAS.
The unifying focus of the thematic track will be on methodological aspects. Both theoretical and practical research should be situated in the context of existing or new methodologies. This will not preclude any specific topic, but preference will be given to research work that establishes some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon some methodology.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
	• Agent theories, architectures, and models
	• Agent-based systems Interoperability
	• Agreement technologies
	• Applications of agents and MAS (industrial and commercial)
	• Artificial social systems
	• Automated negotiation and computational argumentation
	• Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
	• Communication: languages, semantics, protocols, and conversations
	• Cooperation, coordination, and teamwork in MAS
	• Ethical and legal issues raised by autonomous agents and MAS
	• Formal methods for modeling agents and agent-based systems
	• Human-agent interaction
	• Learning in MAS
	• Multiagent evolution, emergent behavior, and adaptation
	• Multiagent modeling and simulation
	• Scalability and performance of MAS
	• Societal and ethical issues: organizations, institutions, norms, socio-technical systems
	• Trust, reputation, privacy, and security

Submission and Reviewing
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2022 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, if the paper is accepted, the corresponding author, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Proceedings and Presentations
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2022 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2022 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar.
Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in the track session.


Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2022
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2022
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2022
Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2022

Organizing Committee
Alberto Fernandez-Gil (alberto.fernandez at urjc.es), CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Daniel Castro Silva (dcs at fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC, Portugal
João Balsa (jbalsa at ciencias.ulisboa.pt), DI / FCUL, Portugal
Jomi Hübner (jomi.hubner at ufsc.br), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Paulo Leitão (pleitao at ipb.pt), IPB, Portugal

Steering Committee
Eugénio Oliveira (eco at fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC
Hélder Coelho (hmcoelho at fc.ul.pt), FCUL
João Balsa (jbalsa at ciencias.ulisboa.pt), FCUL
Luís Paulo Reis (lpreis at fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC

Program Committee
Adriana Giret, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Agostino Poggi, Universita' degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Alberto Sardinha, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Ana Paula Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Andrei Ciortea, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
António Castro, LIACC / Farfetch, Portugal
Carlos Martinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Dave De Jonge, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Diana Adamatti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Federico Bergenti, Universita' degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Gauthier Picard, ONERA, France
Graçaliz Dimuro, FURG, Brazil
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Universidade do Porto / LIACC, Portugal
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Javier Carbó, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Juan Burguillo, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Luís Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Nunes, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Marin Lujak, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Onn Shehory, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Rafael Cardoso, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Ramón Hermoso, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Viviana Mascardi, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Viviane Silva, IBM Research Brazil, Brazil