PRIMA 2011 - The 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2011)

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Category PRIMA 2011

Deadline: June 03, 2011 | Date: November 16, 2011-November 18, 2011

Venue/Country: Wollongong, France

Updated: 2011-03-07 22:01:56 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Wollongong, Australia

November 16th -18th, 2011

http://www.prima2011.org

Conference Theme: Agents for Sustainability

Agent computing is an exciting, transformational approach to developing computer systems that can rapidly and reliably solve real-world problems that usually demand human knowledge and expertise. The value, power and flexibility of agent and multi-agent systems has been demonstrated in application areas such as logistics, manufacturing, simulation, robotics, decision-support, entertainment, and especially in online market environments. As one of the largest and fastest growing research fields of computer science, agent research today includes a wealth of topics, as outlined below. PRIMA-2011 invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical or applied work on any such topic, and encourages reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.

About PRIMA. PRIMA is one of the oldest agent computing forums, beginning in 1998 as a regional agents workshop. PRIMA has grown into an international scientific conference on agents and multi-agent systems which attracts high quality, cutting edge research from all over the world. Throughout its history PRIMA has focused on showcasing the impact of agents on the real world, across the spectrum from early research and prototypes to mature, deployed systems. PRIMA aims to bring together researchers, developers, and industry leaders who are active at the forefront of agent computing, its practices and related areas. The 2011 conference builds upon the success of its thirteen predecessors, and offers an exceptional opportunity for the presentation of original research work, technological advances, and analyses of practical issues, problems and challenges in agent computing.

Theme. The conference theme for PRIMA-2011 of “Agents for Sustainability” seeks to especially encourage thought leadership in the agent community as to how agent computing can be applied to enhance sustainable practices in our world, from agriculture to personal resource usage to the design and operation of more sustainable cities. Papers addressing this theme, across the range from innovative early work to reports on systems in production, are welcomed, as also are papers that continue to explore the “Agents and Services” theme of PRIMA-2010, which addressed connections to service science and service-oriented computing.

Submission. PRIMA-2011 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series. Papers should be 12-15 pages in length in Springer LNCS format and submitted as a PDF file. PRIMA-2011’s reviewing process, overseen by a Senior Programme Committee (SPC), will allow authors to respond to reviewers’ comments prior to final paper selection, and will also provide a "shepherding" process for borderline papers that will see a PC or SPC member work with the authors to provide additional support during the paper revision process. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, presentation, and technical soundness. A broad range of agent topics are of interest, but all papers should clearly identify how their scientific or technical contributions advance the state-of-the-art of agent computing practice or have a strong potential so to do. A footnote should identify those papers whose first author is a student.

Topics

Agent-based system development

Agent programming and communication languages

Agent development environments

Agent-oriented software engineering

Case studies on implemented systems

Agent communication

Agent communication languages and protocols

Agent commitments

Network structures and analysis

Agent-based Simulation

Emergent behaviour

Simulation-specific issues

Single and Multi-agent Learning

Computational architectures for learning and adaptation

Agent Reasoning

Logics for Agents and Multi-Agents

Reasoning (single and multi-agent)

Planning (single and multi-agent)

Cognitive models

Ontological reasoning

Interface Agents

Practices of Interface Agents

Interface Multi-Agents

Virtual Agents

Collaborative Interface Agents

Autonomous Interface Agents

Agent societies and social networks

Artificial social systems

Trust and reputation

Social and organizational structure

Privacy, safety and security

Normative Multi-Agent Systems

Ethical and legal issues

Agent Theories, Models and Architectures

BDI, and other models of agency

Modelling the dynamics of MAS

Formal verification of MAS

Agent Technologies for Service Computing

Service composition with agent collaboration

Service brokering and agency

Personalized services with agent adaptation

SLA definition and monitoring as agent goals

Agent Cooperation and Negotiation

Cooperation, Coalition formation and Coordination

Distributed problem solving

Formal models for modelling other agents and self

Argumentation, Persuasion, Negotiation and Bargaining

Agent Systems

Software agents

Mobile agents

Agent-Based Assistants

Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise

Embodied Agents and their Applications

Socially Situated Planning Software and Pervasive Agents

Real-world Robotics

Coordination in multi-robot systems

Modelling and analysis of multi-robot systems

Tools that are relevant for multi-robot studies

Applications of multi-robots to real-world problems

WWW and Semantic Web Agents

Web-based agents

Ontology agents

Semantic Web agents

Human Agent Interaction

Other Related Areas

Collective intelligence

Service science

P2P, Grid computing

Financial markets and algorithmic trades

Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence

Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems

Perceptive Animated Interfaces

Tools and Standards

Ubiquitous Software Services

Virtual Humans

Important Dates

Workshop/Tutorial proposals

May 6th, 2011

Workshop/Tutorial notifications

May 20th, 2011

Paper submission

June 3rd, 2011

Final author notification

July 28th, 2011

Camera-ready papers

August 31st, 2011

Early registration deadline

September 15th, 2011

Registration deadline

November 1st, 2011

Workshops and Tutorials

November 14th and 15th, 2011

Conference dates

November 16th - 18th, 2011

Organization

Honorary Chair:

R. Sadananda (UNSW, Australia)

General Chairs

Aditya Ghose (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)

Guido Governatori (NICTA, Australia)

Program Chairs

Jane Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

David Kinny (Kyoto University, Japan)

Publicity Chairs:

Wayne Wobcke (UNSW, Australia)

Pascal Perez (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)

Tutorial Chairs:

Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie Univ., Australia)

Serena Villata (Univ. of Turin, Italy)

Local Organizing Chairs:

Minjie Zhang (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)

Hoa Dam (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)

Senior Program Committee

Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland

Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy

Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Michael Luck, King's College London, UK

John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Carles Sierra, IIIA - CSIC, Spain

Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA

Munindar Singh, NCSU, USA

Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan

Wiebe van-der-Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK

Program Committee

Salem Benferhat

Frances Brazier

Longbing Cao

Brahim Chaib-draa

Nilanjan Chakraborty

Sanjay Chaudhary

Shih-Fen Cheng

Mohan Chhetri

Sung-Bae Cho

Amit Chopra

Khanh Hoa Dam

Mehdi Dastani

Frank Dignum

Patrick Doherty

Thomas Eiter

Edith Elkind

Marc Esteva

Rino Falcone

Yang Gao

Joseph Giampapa

Robin Glinton

Eduardo Gomes

Guido Governatori

Nathan Griffiths

Chung-Wei Hang

Hiromitsu Hattori

Christopher Hazard

Koen Hindriks

Michal Jakob

Yichuan Jiang

Wan-rong Jih

Zhi Jin

Benjamin Johnston

Kamalakar Karlapalem

Kee-Eung Kim

Yasuhiko Kitamura

Kazuhiro Kuwabara

Jérôme Lang

Habin Lee

Jaeho Lee

Ho-fung Leung

Minyi Li

Lin Liu

Wei Liu

Graham Low

Beatriz López

Xinjun Mao

Shigeo Matsubara

Felipe Meneguzzi

Simon Miles

Pavlos MORAITIS

Yohei Murakami

Hideyuki Nakanishi

Mariusz Nowostawski

Nir Oren

Juan Pavón

Henry Prakken

Martin Purvis

Maryam Purvis

Jan Richter

Michael Rovatsos

Ji Ruan

Yuko Sakurai

Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

Tino Schlegel

Murat Sensoy

Kiam Tian Seow

Von-Wun Soo

Biplav Srivastava

Eugen Staab

Bas Steunebrink

Toshiharu Sugawara

John Thangarajah

Nicolas Troquard

Leon van der Torre

M. Birna van Riemsdijk

Pradeep Varakantham

Gerard Vreeswijk

Yonghong Wang

Glenn Wightwick

Brendon J. Woodford

Yang Xu

Yifeng Zeng

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