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<div>- Submission Deadline Extended: ***June 18th, 2017***</div>
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<div>PRIMA 2017</div>
<div>The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice
of Multi-Agent</div>
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<div>Nice, France</div>
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<div><a href="https://prima2017.gforge.uni.lu/" target="_blank">https://prima2017.gforge.uni.<wbr>lu/</a></div>
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<div>Important Dates</div>
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<div>Submission of papers: June 18th, 2017 (**new**)</div>
<div>Notification of acceptance: July 21st, 2017</div>
<div>Camera-ready version: September 1st, 2017</div>
<div>Conference: October 30th to November 3rd, 2017</div>
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<div>After the conference, a selection of the best papers will
be invited to </div>
<div>submit extended versions to a Special Issue of the
Knowledge Engineering </div>
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<div>In addition, we are currently negotiating with the Journal
of Autonomous </div>
<div>Agents and Multi-Agent Systems the possibility to implement
a fast </div>
<div>submission track for the very best PRIMA papers.</div>
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<div>About PRIMA:</div>
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<div>Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing
distributed</div>
<div>computing systems and networks through monitoring,
communication,</div>
<div>consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As
a result,</div>
<div>intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated
the capability</div>
<div>to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning,
and other</div>
<div>social metaphors like ‘trust’, ‘game’ and ‘institution’, not
only to</div>
<div>address real-world problems in a human-like way but also to
transcend human</div>
<div>performance. This has had a transformative impact in many
application</div>
<div>domains, particularly in e-commerce, and also in planning,
logistics,</div>
<div>manufacturing, robotics, decision support, transportation,
entertainment,</div>
<div>emergency relief & disaster management, and data mining
& analytics.</div>
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<div>The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice
of Multi-Agent</div>
<div>Systems (PRIMA 2017) invites submissions of original,
unpublished,</div>
<div>theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and
encourages reports on</div>
<div>the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and
of experiments</div>
<div>that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.</div>
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<div>Information for Authors</div>
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<div>The PRIMA 2017 Program Committee invites submissions of
original,</div>
<div>unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant
to multiagent</div>
<div>systems, including reports on the development of prototype
and deployed</div>
<div>agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel
agent system</div>
<div>capabilities. An indicative list of topics is provided below.</div>
<div>Papers should be at most 16 pages in length in the Springer
LNCS format.</div>
<div>All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNAI
series.</div>
<div>Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference
Management</div>
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<div><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2017"
target="_blank">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=prima2017</a>.</div>
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<div>General Chairs</div>
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<div>Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</div>
<div>Serena Villata, Université Côte d’Azur, France</div>
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<div>Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil</div>
<div>Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</div>
<div>Bo An, Nanyang Technological University</div>
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<div>Local Organizing Co-Chairs:</div>
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<div>Andrea G.B. Tettamanzi, Professeur, Université Côte d’Azur</div>
<div>Celia da Costa Pereira, McF, Université Côte d’Azur</div>
<div>Catherine Faron-Zucker, McF, Université Côte d’Azur</div>
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<div>Senior Program Committee (preliminary list):</div>
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<div>Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino</div>
<div>Tina Balke, University of Surrey</div>
<div>Jamal, Bentahar, Concordia University</div>
<div>Rafael H. Bordini, PUCRS</div>
<div>Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University</div>
<div>Paul Davidsson, Malmö University</div>
<div>Yves Demazeau, CNRS - LIG</div>
<div>Frank Dignum, Utrecht University</div>
<div>Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam</div>
<div>Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies-CNR</div>
<div>Katsutoshi Hirayama, Kobe University</div>
<div>Felipe Meneguzzi, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
Grande do Sul</div>
<div>Zinovi Rabinovich, Nanyang Technological University</div>
<div>Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago</div>
<div>Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna</div>
<div>Bo Yang, Jilin University</div>
<div>Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University</div>
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<div>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the
following:</div>
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<div>Logic and Reasoning</div>
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<div>Logics of agency</div>
<div>Logics of multiagent systems</div>
<div>Norms</div>
<div>Argumentation</div>
<div>Computational Game Theory</div>
<div>Uncertainty in Agent Systems</div>
<div>Agent and Multi-Agent Learning</div>
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<div>Engineering Multi-Agent Systems</div>
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<div>Agent-Oriented Software Engineering</div>
<div>Interaction protocols</div>
<div>Commitments</div>
<div>Institutions and Organizations</div>
<div>Normative Systems</div>
<div>Formal Specification and Verification</div>
<div>Agent Programming Languages</div>
<div>Middleware and Platforms</div>
<div>Testing, debugging, and evolution</div>
<div>Deployed System Case Studies</div>
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<div>Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation</div>
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<div>Simulation Languages and Platforms</div>
<div>Artificial Societies</div>
<div>Virtual Environments</div>
<div>Emergent Behavior</div>
<div>Modeling System Dynamics</div>
<div>Application Case Studies</div>
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<div>Collaboration & Coordination</div>
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<div>Planning</div>
<div>Distributed Problem Solving</div>
<div>Teamwork</div>
<div>Coalition Formation</div>
<div>Negotiation</div>
<div>Trust and Reputation</div>
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<div>Economic paradigms</div>
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<div>Auctions and mechanism design</div>
<div>Bargaining and negotiation</div>
<div>Behavioral game theory</div>
<div>Cooperative games: theory & analysis</div>
<div>Cooperative games: computation</div>
<div>Noncooperative games: theory & analysis</div>
<div>Noncooperative games: computation</div>
<div>Social choice theory</div>
<div>Game theory for practical applications</div>
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<div>Human-Agent Interaction</div>
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<div>Adaptive Personal Assistants</div>
<div>Embodied Conversational Agents</div>
<div>Virtual Characters</div>
<div>Multimodal User Interfaces</div>
<div>Mobile Agents</div>
<div>Human-Robot Interaction</div>
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<div>Decentralized Paradigms</div>
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<div>Grid Computing</div>
<div>Service-Oriented Computing</div>
<div>Cybersecurity</div>
<div>Robotics and Multirobot Systems</div>
<div>Ubiquitous Computing</div>
<div>Social Computing</div>
<div>Internet of Things</div>
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<div>Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems</div>
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<div>Healthcare</div>
<div>Autonomous Systems</div>
<div>Transport and Logistics</div>
<div>Emergency and Disaster Management</div>
<div>Energy and Utilities Management</div>
<div>Sustainability and Resource Management</div>
<div>Games and Entertainment</div>
<div>e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning</div>
<div>Smart Cities</div>
<div>Financial markets</div>
<div>Legal applications</div>
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