<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all</div><div><br></div><div>Please note the new paper submission deadline: March 11, 2022. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Amit<br></div><div><br></div><div>=====================================<br></div><div>
Multiagent systems (MAS) -- systems composed of autonomous agents who
interact with each other -- are ideally suited to realizing modern
software applications. For instance, MAS ideas are well-suited to the
IoT, and applications that support engagements between humans and
organizations in domains such as business, health, and finance.
Moreover, with the advent of microservices, we see a clear shift in the
software industry from monolithic applications to applications
constituted from autonomous, interactive services -- in essence, agents.</div><br>The
EMAS workshop is a forum for presenting and discussing original ideas
and work on software abstractions, methodologies, languages, and tools
for engineering loosely-coupled, adaptive, high-performance, and
scalable MAS.<br><br>We welcome submissions on:<br>- Traditional MAS
engineering topics, including requirements and formal specifications;
architecture and modeling; verification and validation; programming and
languages; testing; maintenance and evolution.<br>- MAS engineering for conventional AI techniques, including machine learning-based abstractions.<br>- MAS engineering for novel technologies, including blockchain, IoT, microservices, serverless computing.<br>- MAS engineering abstractions, including norms, protocols, BDI, and goals.<br>- MAS engineering for application domains including business, health, finance, transportation.<br>- MAS engineering for sociotechnical systems, including ethics, laws and regulations, governance, accountability.<br>- MAS engineering surveys.<br><br>As AAMAS 2022 will be a virtual event, EMAS 2022 will adopt a virtual format similar to that used for EMAS 2021.<br><br>============================================<br>Submissions<br>============================================<br><br>All
papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review
process is single-blind (authors should put their names and affiliations
in the submission). All papers should be in the LNCS formatting style.<br><br>The Easychair submission page can be found here: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2022" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2022</a><br><br>Paper Types<br>- Regular papers may be up to 16 pages.<br>- Short papers may be up to 8 pages.<br>-
Tool, testbed, and demo papers may be up to 4 pages. Submissions
should highlight the capabilities of an implemented tool or MAS
application and provide a link to supplementary material that allows the
reviewers to evaluate the submission, such as a website or videos.<br><br>The LNCS formatting style is available via: <a href="http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a><br>Student Paper Award<br><br>We
encourage students to submit to EMAS. Papers where the main author is a
student should be identified as such and will be eligible for a best
student paper award.<br><br>============================================<br>Publication<br>============================================<br>The
workshop will be foremost a discussion event: there will be ample time
to discuss new ideas rather than only presenting mature work. Papers
with enough potential to warrant publication in a journal will be
identified through the reviewing process, and authors will be invited to
submit their work for a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and
Artificial intelligence (hopefully to appear before EMAS 2023).<br><br>============================================<br>Important dates<br>============================================<br>Submission deadline March 11, 2022<br>Author notification April 8, 2022<br>Camera-ready deadline April 22, 2022<br>EMAS Workshop May 9-10, 2022<br><br>===========================================<br>Workshop Chairs<br>===========================================<br>Amit K. Chopra (Lancaster University)<br>Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal)<br>Rym Zalila-Wenkstern (University of Texas at Dallas)<br><br><a href="https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2022/cfp.html" target="_blank">https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2022/cfp.html</a><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div>
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