[agents] [Outreach] Call for Papers: JAAMAS Special Issue on Agreement Technologies: a tribute to Carles Sierra’s research

[Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar]

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Submissions are invited to the following special issue of the Journal of 
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Submission deadline: March 1, 2024

Call: https://www.springer.com/journal/10458/updates/26344140

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Agreement Technologies: a tribute to 
Carles Sierra’s research

Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous 
software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of 
humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may 
choose whether to fulfill an agreement or not, and it should fulfil it 
when there is an obligation to do so derived from the standing 
agreements. Autonomy, interaction, mobility, and openness are key 
concepts studied within the Agreement Technologies approach. Semantic 
alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organizations, trust and 
reputation, and several other technologies are part of the toolbox to 
define, specify, and verify such systems.

Agreement Technologies amalgamates a wide range of topics that have been 
at the core of Multiagent Systems research for decades. A Springer book 
was published on Agreement Technologies in 2013, and a conference series 
was created in 2012 dedicated to the topic. The AT conference editions 
were held in Dubrovnik in 2012, Beijing in 2013, Athens in 2015, 
Valencia in 2016, Paris in 2017, Bergen in 2018, and Thessaloniki in 2020.

The purpose of this special issue is to revise the current advancements 
in Agreement Technologies and, at the same time, pay homage to one of 
the main contributors to research on Agreement Technologies: Professor 
Carles Sierra, who was amongst the first to shape the field in terms of 
five key areas (semantics, norms, organisations, argumentation and 
negotiation, and trust and reputation). He received the 2019 ACM/SIGAI 
Autonomous Agents Research Award for his seminal contributions to 
agreement technologies and, more specifically, for his research on 
negotiation and argumentation, computational trust and reputation, and 
artificial social systems. With the occasion of Carles Sierra’s 60th 
birthday, this special issue will serve to revise the current 
advancements in the field.

The special issue targets high-quality original papers covering all 
aspects of agreement technologies, including, but not limited to, the 
list of topics below. Manuscripts that extend a previous conference or 
workshop publication are welcome, provided that there is a significant 
amount of new material in the submission (i.e., the manuscript should 
contain at least 50% new material).

Guest editors

Michael Luck, University of Sussex

Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC

Nardine Osman, IIIA-CSIC

Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC

Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford


Topics

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics that we would like to 
cover in the special issue:

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    Agreement technologies, architectures, environments, and methodologies

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    Negotiation

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    Argumentation

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    Trust and reputation

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    Normative systems

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    Artificial social systems

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    Electronic institutions

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    Semantic alignment

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    Value alignment: reasoning and learning

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    Collective value alignment

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    Large language models for agreements

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    Coalition and team formation

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    Social Intelligence

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    Applications of agreement technologies

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    Social welfare, fairness, and ethics in agreements

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    Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreements

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    Collective decision-making

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    Judgement aggregation

Timeline

Submission deadline: March 1, 2024

Manuscript submissions will be considered for publication in the AT 
special issue continuously until the submission deadline. Submissions 
accepted for publication before the completion of the special issue will 
be available on the journal website shortly after acceptance.

Submission procedure

To submit, you should visit the online system 
at<https://www.editorialmanager.com/agnt/>https://editorial.springernature.com 
<https://editorial.springernature.com/>and create a new account if you 
do not already have one. When creating your submission on the system, 
select the submission type "Manuscript," and then in the "Additional 
Information" section, answer "Yes" when asked if your manuscript belongs 
to a special issue, then select "S.I.: Agreement Technologies: a tribute 
to Carles Sierra’s research." If you do not mark your manuscript 
correctly as belonging to the special issue, it may not reach the 
correct editors.

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has 
neither appeared in nor is under consideration by other journals.

All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for 
the Journal.

Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: 
www.springer.com/10458 <http://www.springer.com/10458>
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