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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---  WESAAC-2022  ---</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">16th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="http://wesaac2022.ufsc.br" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://wesaac2022.ufsc.br</span></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Blumenau, SC -- Brazil</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400">August 31st  - September 2nd,  2022</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Motivation</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Many current computational systems no longer depend on human intervention to operate in complex dynamic environments. Some of the key features that allow such systems to operate autonomously include the ability to make rational decisions and to react to changes in a timely way. In that respect, agent systems and multi-agent environments provide a computing paradigm that supports the development of intelligent systems that are able to cope with the complexities associated with such dynamic scenarios.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Aims</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The area of agent-based systems is widely known and has numerous papers published internationally every year. However, nationally there are few events in this area and no other national event also provides tutorials and short courses specifically on the main topics of research within Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. WESAAC is therefore of great importance as a national event in this area, aiming to both prepare future generations of Brazilian researchers and to disseminate the current projects of Brazilian researchers. WESAAC aims to be a forum for the discussion of work at all levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being conducted. Fundamentally, WESAAC is the best opportunity for Brazilian undergraduate and especially graduate students to attend courses by some of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout the world.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Topics of Interest</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400">Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to):</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated reasoning);</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation); </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms, tools, methodologies);</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* agent organizations, societal issues, normative systems, etc.;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* agent communication;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* social simulations and agent-based simulation; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* (formal) specification and verification of multi-agent systems;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* machine learning  in agent systems;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* automated planning in agent systems;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* agents in embedded and robotic systems;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">* applications of agents and multi-agent systems;</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper Submission</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400">Researchers and students are invited to submit papers in Portuguese or English, as a PDF file formatted according to the SBC style (compulsory) available at <a href="http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400">The proceedings will be published electronically. </span><span style="font-weight:400">Two separate tracks have been created for paper submission: (i) full papers and (ii) short papers (i.e., extended abstracts). </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400">Full papers, reporting work with solid results must have no more than 12 pages. </span><span style="font-weight:400">Short papers, reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have between 4 and 6 pages. Both full and short papers will be presented orally in plenary sessions.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Papers must be submitted through EasyChair using the following url: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wesaac2022" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wesaac2022</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">At least one author of the accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to carry out the presentation.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Important Dates</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400">Abstract Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2022</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper Submission Deadline: June 12th, 2022</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Notification to authors: July 29th, 2022</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Final Version Deadline: August 21st, 2022</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Venue</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400">WESAAC will be held at the Campus Blumenau of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Blumenau-Brazil.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">To be announced.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conference Indexing</span></span></p>
<p><span><span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">WESAAC is indexed at Qualis Conferences (as B4).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Committee</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400">Chairs: Maiquel de Brito (UFSC),</span><span style="font-weight:400"> Maicon</span><span style="font-weight:400"> Zatelli (UFSC) e Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa (UFBA)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Contact</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"></span><span style="font-weight:400"><a href="mailto:maiquel.b@ufsc.br" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">maiquel.b@ufsc.br</a></span></span></p>
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