<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px;"><b class="">CFP: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA 2023)</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">(Apologies for cross-posting)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><b class="">Dates</b>: December 4-6, 2023</div><div class=""><b class="">Venue</b>: Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan</div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">Website</b>: <a href="https://confaid.com/ieee-ica2023/" class="">https://confaid.com/ieee-ica2023/</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000" class=""><b class="">Submission link</b>: </font><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeica2023" class="">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeica2023</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Scope and Background</b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Intelligent agents in AI are software entities designed to act on behalf of humans with some degree of autonomy. Such agents interact with their environment by sensing its status and employing their knowledge to carry out operations that help them achieve their goals. Intelligent agents possess distinctive properties such as adaptability, reactivity, proactivity, and sociability. They can collaborate or compete with each other, aiming to achieve personal or shared objectives. The applications of agents vary in scale, ranging from personal assistants and conversational systems to large-scale, intricate, and mission-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles or search and rescue drones. The research on intelligent agents focuses on inventing innovative agent models, frameworks, and techniques to improve their capabilities. The IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA) brings together scholars and professionals in all areas of agent research. IEEE ICA provides a platform to explore new theories, practices, and applications of intelligent and autonomous agents. In the past, the IEEE ICA conferences were held in Adelaide (2022), Kyoto (2021), Jinan (2019), Singapore (2018), Beijing (2017), and Matsue (2016). The 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA 2023) will be held on December 4-6, 2023, at the Clock Tower Centennial Hall of Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Areas of Interest</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA 2023) calls for innovative contributions related to, but not limited to, the topics listed below. This year’s central theme will revolve around conversational agents, their theories, implementations, and applications. The focus should be on incorporating large language models (LLMs) into conversational agents, advancing their capabilities, and exploring their potential to collaborate effectively with humans in addressing pressing global challenges.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Agent-based decision-making theories and techniques</li><li class="">Simulation of society using agents and multiagent systems</li><li class="">Conversational agents and large language models</li><li class="">Agent-based negotiation, coordination, cooperation, and argumentation</li><li class="">Game theory, social choice theory, auctions, and mechanism design</li><li class="">Collective intelligence, social computing, and wisdom of the crowds</li><li class="">Self-organization and self-adaptation</li><li class="">Complex systems and system dynamics </li><li class="">Internet of Things, agents, and people</li><li class="">Human and multiagent agent interaction</li><li class="">Ethical, legal, and moral aspects pertaining to agent technologies</li><li class="">Future visions and grand challenges of agents and multiagent systems</li></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Submission Guidelines</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The conference welcomes submissions on significant, original, and unpublished work in all areas of agent research. Submissions must be written in English, formatted according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" class="">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>), and submitted via EasyChair (<a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeica2023" class="">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeica2023</a>). All information linking to the authors must be removed due to the double-blind peer-review policy. Submissions should be no longer than six pages (including the references) for regular papers, four for short papers, and two for poster papers. At least three reviewers from our PC members will review all submitted papers through a double-blind peer-review process. The acceptance standards include technical soundness, novelty, impact, and readability. All accepted papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. A multiple submission policy is applied for the papers. Papers submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page, whether verbatim or in essence. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without review. All accepted papers in the regular oral presentations/posters will be published in conference proceedings by CPS. The papers will be indexed by EI, SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP, and ISI.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Important Dates</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Submission deadline</b>: September 1st, 2023</li><li class="">A<b class="">uthor notificatio</b>n: September 20th, 2023</li><li class=""><b class="">Camera-ready paper deadline</b>: October 10th, 2023</li><li class=""><b class="">IEEE ICA 2023</b>: December 4th-6th, 2023</li></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Conference Committee</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">General Chair</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Program Chairs</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Rafik Hadfi, Kyoto University, Japan</li><li class="">Weihua Li, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Financial Chair</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Local Arrangements Chair</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Jawad Haqbeen, Kyoto University, Japan</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Publication Chair</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Sofia Sahab, Kyoto University, Japan</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Web Chairs</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Yihan Dong, Kyoto University, Japan</li><li class="">Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Volunteer Chair</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Shiyao Ding, Kyoto University, Japan</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Honorary Chairs</b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Quan Bai, University of Tasmania, Australia</li><li class="">Zehong (Jimmy) Cao, University of South Australia, Australia</li></ul><li class=""><b class="">Advisory Committee<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></li><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Australia</li><li class="">Yves Demazeau, CNRS, France</li><li class="">Catholijn Jonker, TU Delft, Netherlands</li><li class="">Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia</li><li class="">Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China</li><li class="">Chunyan Miao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</li></ul></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Program Chairs:</div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Rafik Hadfi (rafik.hadfi [at] <a href="http://i.kyoto-u.ac.jp" class="">i.kyoto-u.ac.jp</a>) and Weihua Li (<a href="http://weihua.li" class="">weihua.li</a> [at] <a href="http://aut.ac.nz" class="">aut.ac.nz</a>)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>