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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(apologies for cross-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CALL FOR PAPERS - 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In conjunction with AAMAS 2023 (29-30 May 2023, London, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2023/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"># Workshop Description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A key unifying theme underlying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is the idea of intelligent software agents able to reason, act,
interact, and learn. This metaphor has stimulated much research in AI and particularly in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, giving rise to research in agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, and declarative agent languages
and technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Despite the substantial body of knowledge and expertise developed in the design and development of multi-agent systems (MAS), the systematic
development of large-scale and open MAS still poses many challenges. Even though various languages, models, techniques, and methodologies have been proposed in the literature, researchers and developers are still faced with fundamental questions attaining
MAS engineering, such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to specify, design, implement, verify, test, and validate large-scale and open MAS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to ensure and control the global behaviour of decentralised, large-scale, and open MAS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to seamlessly integrate AI, machine learning, and data-driven techniques into the design and development of agent-based systems?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Which (multi-)agent architectures and languages are most suitable for MAS in different domains?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to engineer agent and multi-agent systems that are secure and protect the privacy concerns of users?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to scale to the complexity of real-world application domains?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- What are the implications of MAS engineering in the context of continuous development and deployment?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How can MAS be applied in specific application areas, such as Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things / Web of Things?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- How to seamlessly integrate MAS engineering with mainstream software engineering models, languages, frameworks and tools?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Which processes and methodologies can integrate the above and provide a disciplined approach to the engineering of MAS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">EMAS 2023 will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the theory and practice of engineering intelligent agents and
multi-agent systems (MAS). The overall purpose of the workshop is to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences in the various fields to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- enhance our knowledge of the theory and practice of engineering intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, and advance the state of the art;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- demonstrate how MAS methodologies, architectures, languages, and tools can be used in the engineering of deployed large-scale, open, and data-driven
MAS;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- define new directions for engineering MAS by drawing on results and recommendations from related research areas; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- encourage Ph.D. and Master’s students to become involved in and contribute to the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"># Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Traditional MAS engineering topics, including requirements and formal specifications; architecture and modeling; verification and validation;
programming and languages; testing; maintenance and evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering for conventional AI techniques, including machine learning-based abstractions and data-driven approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering for novel technologies, including IoT/WoT, hypermedia services, microservices, serverless computing, blockchain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering abstractions, including norms, emotions, protocols, BDI, and goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering for application domains including business, health, finance, mobility and transportation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering for sociotechnical systems, including ethics, laws and regulations, governance, responsibility and accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- MAS engineering surveys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"># Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submission deadline: March 20, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Author notification: April 24, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Camera-ready deadline: May 15, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">EMAS: May 29-30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"># Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We solicit four types of submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Regular papers should: (1) clearly describe innovative and original research; or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field; or
(3) explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world case. (16 pages, excluding references, in LNCS format).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Short papers should: (1) describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development; or (2) present a
vision for some part of the field, including challenges, and research opportunities (see the AAMAS Blue Sky Track CFP for more information on these sort of papers). (8 pages, excluding references, in LNCS format).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Student papers should describe M.Sc. or Ph.D. research in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. The paper should clearly describe
the problem tackled and why it is important, the research method, the (expected) contributions of the research, and the evaluation. The lead author on the paper should be the student. (6 pages, excluding references, in LNCS format).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Tools, testbeds, and demo papers should describe a novel tool or demonstration in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. Submissions
may range from early prototypes to in-house or pre-commercialised products. Authors of other EMAS 2023 papers are also welcome to submit an accompanying tool/demo paper. The paper should provide a link to supplementary material that allows the reviewers to
evaluate the submission such as website or movie (4 pages, excluding references, in LNCS format).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Student paper award: We encourage students to submit to EMAS 2023. Papers where the main author is a student should be identified as such and
will be eligible for the best student paper award.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submission policy: all papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review process is single blind: submissions should not
be blind, reviewers will be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The LNCS formatting style is available via: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The EasyChair submission page can be found here: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=emas2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of the EMAS papers for inclusion in the post-proceedings
that will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (to be confirmed).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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