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MASTA 2021, 11th Thematic Track on MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications
@EPIA2021, 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.appia.pt/epia2021/multi-agent-systems-theory-and-applications-masta
September 7-9, 2021
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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2021
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2021
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Research on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has a vigorous, exciting tradition and has led to important theories and systems. However, new trends and concerns are still emerging and form the basis of current and future research. The 11th thematic track on “MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications”, to take place at EPIA 2020, and will provide a discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work in all areas of MAS.
The unifying focus of the thematic track will be on methodological aspects. Both theoretical and practical research should be situated in the context of existing or new methodologies. This will not preclude any specific topic, but preference will be given to research work that establishes some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon some methodology.
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List of Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agent theories, architectures and models
Agent-based systems Interoperability
Agreement technologies
Applications of agents and MAS (industrial and commercial)
Artificial social systems
Automated negotiation and computational argumentation
Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
Communication: languages, semantics, protocols, and conversations
Cooperation, coordination and teamwork in MAS
Ethical and legal issues raised by autonomous agents and MAS
Formal methods for modelling agents and agent-based systems
Human-agent interaction
Learning in MAS
Multiagent evolution, emergent behavior and adaptation
Multiagent modelling and simulation
Scalability and performance of MAS
Societal and ethical issues: organizations, institutions, norms, socio-technical systems
Trust, reputation, privacy and security
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Submission and Reviewing
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All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2021 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted. The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
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Proceedings and Presentations
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2021 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2021 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in the track session.
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Organizing committee
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Ana Paula Rocha (arocha@fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC, Portugal
João Balsa (jbalsa@ciencias.ulisboa.pt), DI / FCUL, Portugal
Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (gracalizdimuro@furg.br), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Alberto Fernandez-Gil (alberto.fernandez@urjc.es), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
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Steering Committee
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Eugénio Oliveira, FEUP / LIACC, Portugal
Hélder Coelho, FCUL, Portugal
João Balsa, FCUL, Portugal
Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP / LIACC, Portugal
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Program Committee
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Adriana Giret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Alberto Sardinha, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna, Italy
Antonio J. M. Castro, LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Carrascosa, GTI-IA DSIC Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Carlos Martinho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Daniel Castro Silva, FEUP-DEI / LIACC, Portugal
Dave De Jonge, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Diana Adamatti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil
Francisco Grimaldo, Departament d'Informàtica – Universitat de València, Spain
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal
Javier Carbo, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Joao Leite, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jordi Sabater Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jorge Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Juan Carlos Burguillo, University of Vigo, Spain
Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Macedo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luís Nunes, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Marin Lujak, IMT Lille Douai, France
Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Paulo Leitao, Polythecnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
Rafael H. Bordini, Pontífica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ramon Hermoso, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Reyhan Aydogan, Delft University of Technology, Turkey
Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Viviane Silva, IBM Research Brazil, Brazil