[agents] PRIMA 2022 : The 24th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

[Reyhan Aydogan]

*PRIMA 2022 : The 24th International Conference on Principles and Practice
of Multi-Agent Systems (https://prima2022.webs.upv.es/
<https://prima2022.webs.upv.es/>**)*



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 agents, protocols, norms, organizations,
trust, incentives, 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 remains a unique
enabler of interdisciplinary research.



**Information for Authors*

PRIMA 2022 invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and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.

- *Survey papers:* these papers can be up to 16 pages in length, including
references, in the Springer LNCS format. Review papers must clearly
indicate it in the paper title (e.g., "SURVEY: Title").

- *Blue-Sky 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.

- *Demo-papers: *these papers can be up to 4 pages in length including
references, in the Springer LNCS format. The paper should have a link of a
video (maximal duration 10 minutes).



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.



All accepted papers for the main track will be published in Springer's
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).



**Journal Publication*

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



**Doctoral Consortium*

PRIMA 2022 will hold a doctoral consortium meeting where students can
present their work and interact with mentors.



**Conference Dates*

*November, 16-18, 2022*



**Venue*

Valencia (Spain) - We plan to have a face-to-face conference, although some
online events will be held for participation. The conference will take
place at Universitat Politècnica de València. If participants may not
attend physically, they will have the opportunity to present their work
online.



**Important Dates*

- Submission deadline: June 3, 2022 (11:59PM UTC-12)

- Rebuttal: August 22-26, 2022

- Notification: September 7, 2022

- Camera ready submission: September 20, 2022

- Conference dates: November 16-18, 2022



**Paper Submission*

Submission site

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=prima2022



**Topics of Interest*

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



Logic and Reasoning

- Logics of Agency

- Logics of Multiagent Systems

- Logics of Belief and Knowledge

- Norms, Obligations, Deontic Logic

- Argumentation

- Logics and 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

- Multi-Agent Planning

- Distributed Problem Solving

- Teamwork

- Coalition Formation

- Negotiation

- Trust and Reputation



Algorithmic Game Theory

- Auctions and Mechanism Design

- Bargaining and Negotiation

- Behavioral Game Theory

- Cooperative games: Theory, Analysis, Computation

- Game Theory for Practical Applications

- Noncooperative games: Theory, Analysis, Computation



Computational Social Choice

- Voting

- Fair Division and Resource Allocation

- Matching under Preferences

- Coalition Formation Games

- Aggregation of Beliefs, Opinions, Judgments

- Ethics and Computational Social Choice

- Participatory Budgeting

- Facility Location

- Communication Issues in Social Choice, Distortion

- Behavioral Social Choice



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, Pandemics Management

- 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

- Crowdsourcing




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Best regards,

Reyhan Aydogan

Computer Science,  Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Interactive Intelligent Systems, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands

Web site: *https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/reyhanaydogan
<https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/reyhanaydogan>*
https://intelisys.ozyegin.edu.tr/
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