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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note the deadline for submissions has been extended to 1 August.</p>
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CALL FOR PAPERS:<br>
<br>
The 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of<br>
Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2018)<br>
October 29 - November 2, 2018<br>
AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Tokyo, Japan<br>
<a href="http://2018.prima-conference.org/">http://2018.prima-conference.org/</a><br>
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Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of<br>
functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are becoming<br>
more decentralized, with components that represent autonomous entities<br>
who must communicate among themselves to achieve their goals. Examples<br>
of such systems range from healthcare and emergency relief and<br>
disaster management to e-business and smarts grids. A multiagent<br>
worldview is crucial to properly conceptualizing, building, and<br>
governing such systems. It offers abstractions such as intelligent<br>
agent, protocol, norm, organization, trust, incentive, and so on, and<br>
is rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations.<br>
As a large but still growing research field of Computer Science,<br>
multiagent systems today remain a unique enabler of interdisciplinary<br>
research.<br>
<br>
===============<br>
Important Dates<br>
===============<br>
Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 (11:59PM UTC-12) (EXTENDED!)<br>
Notification: September 2, 2018<br>
Camera ready submission: September 13, 2018<br>
Conference date: October 29 - November 2, 2018<br>
<br>
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Invited Talks<br>
===============<br>
Planned plenary speakers include Prof. Manuela M. Veloso (CMU) and<br>
Prof. Michael Luck (KCL). Further information will be announced soon.<br>
<br>
=======================<br>
Information for Authors<br>
=======================<br>
The PRIMA 2018 Program Committee invites submissions of original,<br>
unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to<br>
multiagent systems, including reports on the development of prototype<br>
and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel<br>
agent system capabilities. An indicative list of topics is provided<br>
below.<br>
<br>
The papers can be submitted to one of the following categories:<br>
- Regular papers: These papers can be up to 16 pages in length in the<br>
Springer LNCS format. Note that some regular papers may be accepted as<br>
short papers.<br>
- Short papers: These papers can be up to 8 pages in length in the<br>
Springer LNCS format. These 'early-innovation' papers will be reviewed<br>
with an emphasis on novelty/originality of the idea.<br>
<br>
Note: that all the submitted papers must be in a form suitable for<br>
double-blind review. In order to make blind reviewing possible,<br>
authors must omit their names and affiliations from the paper.<br>
<br>
All accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in<br>
Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).<br>
<br>
=======================<br>
Special Issue<br>
=======================<br>
A select number of papers will also be invited to submit an extended<br>
version to a fast track of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and<br>
Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS).<br>
<br>
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Paper Submission<br>
=======================<br>
Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management<br>
System: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2018">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2018</a><br>
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Topics of Interest<br>
==================<br>
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:<br>
* Logic and Reasoning<br>
- Logics of agency<br>
- Logics of multiagent systems<br>
- Norms<br>
- Argumentation<br>
- Computational Game Theory<br>
- Uncertainty in Agent Systems<br>
- Agent and Multi-Agent Learning<br>
<br>
* Engineering Multi-Agent Systems<br>
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering<br>
- Interaction protocols<br>
- Commitments<br>
- Institutions and Organizations<br>
- Normative Systems<br>
- Formal Specification and Verification<br>
- Agent Programming Languages<br>
- Middleware and Platforms<br>
- Testing, debugging, and evolution<br>
- Deployed System Case Studies<br>
<br>
* Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation<br>
- Simulation Languages and Platforms<br>
- Artificial Societies<br>
- Virtual Environments<br>
- Emergent Behavior<br>
- Modeling System Dynamics<br>
- Application Case Studies<br>
<br>
* Collaboration & Coordination<br>
- Planning<br>
- Distributed Problem Solving<br>
- Teamwork<br>
- Coalition Formation<br>
- Negotiation<br>
- Trust and Reputation<br>
<br>
* Economic paradigms<br>
- Auctions and mechanism design<br>
- Bargaining and negotiation<br>
- Behavioral game theory<br>
- Cooperative games: theory & analysis<br>
- Cooperative games: computation<br>
- Noncooperative games: theory & analysis<br>
- Noncooperative games: computation<br>
- Social choice theory<br>
- Game theory for practical applications<br>
<br>
* Human-Agent Interaction<br>
- Adaptive Personal Assistants<br>
- Embodied Conversational Agents<br>
- Virtual Characters<br>
- Multimodal User Interfaces<br>
- Mobile Agents<br>
- Human-Robot Interaction<br>
<br>
* Decentralized Paradigms<br>
- Grid Computing<br>
- Service-Oriented Computing<br>
- Cybersecurity<br>
- Robotics and Multirobot Systems<br>
- Ubiquitous Computing<br>
- Social Computing<br>
- Internet of Things<br>
<br>
* Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems<br>
- Healthcare<br>
- Autonomous Systems<br>
- Transport and Logistics<br>
- Emergency and Disaster Management<br>
- Energy and Utilities Management<br>
- Sustainability and Resource Management<br>
- Games and Entertainment<br>
- e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning<br>
- Smart Cities<br>
- Financial markets<br>
- Legal applications<br>
<br>
=========<br>
Committee<br>
=========<br>
General Chairs:<br>
- Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)<br>
- Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA)<br>
- Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago, New Zealand)<br>
<br>
Program Chairs:<br>
- Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK)<br>
- Tim Miller (University of Melbourne, AU)<br>
- Yuko Sakurai (AIST, Japan)<br>
<br>
Finance Chair:<br>
- Taiki Todo (Kyushu University, Japan)<br>
<br>
Web Chair:<br>
- Yuu Nakajima (Toho University, Japan)<br>
<br>
Publicity Chairs:<br>
- Koichi Moriyama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)<br>
- Quan Bai (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)<br>
<br>
Social Events Chair:<br>
- Yuichi Sei (The university of Electro-Communications, Japan)<br>
<br>
Sponsorship Chair:<br>
- Fujio Toriumi (The university of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
<br>
Workshop/Tutorial Chairs:<br>
- Kiyoshi Izumi (The university of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
- Jiamou Liu (Auckland University, New Zealand)<br>
- Hiroki Sakaji (The university of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
- Takashi Shimada (The university of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
- Yasuhiro Matsushima (The university of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
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