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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">12th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Co-located with AAMAS 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Workshop: 6th and 7th May 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Conference: 8th - 10th May 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Auckland, New Zealand</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Workshop website:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2024/" id="OWA19b03357-1464-2553-1dcd-4aa62bd88f40" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2024/</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Contact: emas2024@easychair.org</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Paper submission deadline: 23rd February 2024 (AoE, UTC-12)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Author notification: 25th March 2024 (AoE, UTC-12)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">SCOPE</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">A key unifying theme underlying Artificial Intelligence 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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">TOPICS</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">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:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to specify, design, implement, verify, test and validate large-scale and open MAS?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to ensure and control the global behaviour of decentralised, large-scale and open MAS?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to express the requirements for MAS and how to translate these requirements into agent goals?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Which (multi-)agent architectures and languages are most suitable for MAS in different domains? </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to seamlessly integrate AI and machine learning techniques into design/programming languages and tools for agent-based systems?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to engineer agent and multi-agent systems that are secure and protect the privacy concerns of users?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to scale to the complexity of real-world application domains?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">What are the implications of MAS engineering in the context of continuous development and deployment?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How can MAS be applied in specific application areas, such as Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things? </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">How to seamlessly integrate MAS engineering with mainstream software engineering models, languages, frameworks and tools?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Which processes and methodologies can integrate the above and provide a disciplined approach to the engineering of MAS?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">EMAS 2024 will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the domains of agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative
agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to present and discuss their research and emerging results in engineering MAS. The overall purpose of the workshop is to facilitate the cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences
in the various fields to: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Enhance our knowledge of the theory and practice of engineering intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, and advance the state of the art;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Demonstrate how MAS methodologies, architectures, languages and tools can be used in the engineering of deployed large-scale and open MAS;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Define new directions for engineering MAS by drawing on results and recommendations from related research areas;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Encourage PhD and Masters students to become involved in and contribute to the area.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">SUBMISSIONS</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">We solicit four types of submissions:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Regular papers</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> 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).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Short papers</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> 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).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Student papers</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> 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).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Tools, testbeds, and demo papers</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> 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 2024 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 video (4 pages, excluding references, in LNCS format).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Student paper award:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> Papers where the main author
is a student should be identified as such and will be eligible for the best student paper award.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Best regular paper award:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">We will also select the best paper amongst the regular papers where the main author is not a student.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Submission policy:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> all papers should be original
and not be submitted elsewhere. The review process is single blind: submissions should not be blind, reviewers will be.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Submissions should be formatted following the LNCS formatting style which is available via:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(30, 144, 255); font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" id="OWA8b519566-d09a-d6af-8637-41ada9489ef2" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(30, 144, 255); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">The EasyChair submission page can be found here:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=emas2024" id="OWA4563cfe9-4fc6-617b-5163-4a970d9451b0" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=emas2024</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Authors of accepted papers may 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 (LNAI).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Daniela Briola, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Rafael C. Cardoso, University of Aberdeen (UK)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Brian Logan, Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands)</span></p>
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