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MASTA 2020: 11th Thematic Track on MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications Oeiras, Portugal, September 7-9, 2020

Conference website	https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/?page_id=101
Submission deadline	April 15, 2020
Paper acceptance notification	May 31, 2020
Camera-ready deadline	June 15, 2020

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.

List of Topics

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

Submission and Reviewing

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2020 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 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, if the paper is accepted, the corresponding author, 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.

Proceedings and Presentations

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 2020 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2020 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.

Committees

Organizing committee

Program Committee

• 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
• Olivier Boissier, Mines Saint-Etienne, Institut Henri Fayol, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, France
• 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

Venue

The conference will be held in Instituto Superior Técnico – TagusPark, Oeiras, Portugal

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Candidaturas: de 20-11-2019 a 03-12-2019. 

 

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 – gestão da disponibilidade dos parceiros de produção e distribuição, usando o paradigma da inteligência artificial distribuída 

– otimização do planeamento de produção, aplicando técnicas de escalonamento e otimização por restrições

– otimização do processo de distribuição, explorando metodologias de cooperação distribuída

– gestão de picking e embalamento de (sub)encomendas, incluindo realidade aumentada na otimização

 – controlo/deteção de potenciais erros  de produção, explorando diferentes técnicas de aprendizagem computacional    

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Solicita-se a divulgação de uma Bolsa de Investigação para Doutor, no âmbito do projeto "OMECO – One Stop Shp Marketing Ecosystem", destinada a Doutor em Engenharia Informática, Ciência de Computadores ou área afim.

Candidaturas: de 20-11-2019 a 03-12-2019. 

 

O trabalho a realizar diz respeito à definição de um marketplace, embebido de ferramentas eficientes, suportadas por metodologias de inteligência artificial para:

 – gestão da disponibilidade dos parceiros de produção e distribuição, usando o paradigma da inteligência artificial distribuída 

– planeamento da distribuição e entrega de encomendas totais/parciais e multiprodutos

– gestão de disrupções na produção e distribuição, explorando metodologias de cooperação distribuída e aprendizagem computacional   

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AAAT2019: Agent based Applications for Air Transport High technical school of Ávila – University of Salamanca Ávila, Spain, June 26-28, 2019

Conference website	https://www.paams.net/workshops/aaat
Submission deadline	February 4, 2019
Notification Date	March 11, 2019
Camera-ready deadline	March 29, 2019

AAAT (Agent based Applications for Air Transport) is a Workshop at PAAMS: International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

The aim of the AAAT Workshop is to foster the discussion on issues concerning the development of Intelligent Agents for real Air Transportation problems, including Disruption Management, Airline Operations Control, Air Traffic Management and Control, Airport Logistics, etc. Agents are, by definition, autonomous entities enable to react and adapt to changes in a complex, distributed and dynamic environment as it is the case of Air Transportation. Intelligent Agents seems to be an appropriate methodology to apply in the Air Transportation domain, since involved entities, represented by agents, can reach their ultimate goals and intentions through autonomic decision-making as well as by including features representing their own problem-solving intelligent capabilities.

On the basis of theories and methodologies borrowed from a wide spectrum of disciplines, such as the Social Sciences, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, and many others, many important issues arise which challenge and motivate many researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields, as well as different technical and scientific communities. We encourage and welcome contributions reporting on how the scientific community and practitioners are using Agents and Multi Agent Systems techniques and methodologies to address real Air Transportation problems. This includes theoretical and/or applied research as well as applications.

Submission Guidelines

Review process

All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.

Submitting papers

All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2019 Proceedings, published by Springer.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag.

More information: www.paams.net

List of Topics

• Air Traffic Flow Management
• Air Traffic Control (including airport approaches and take-off and landing)
• Airline Operations Control (day-to-day operations and irregular operations management including aircraft, crew and passenger recovery)
• Aircraft and crew scheduling
• Passenger re-accommodations.
• Ground Operations control (from either of the ground operators perspective, i.e., airlines, airports, fuel companies, catering companies, etc.)
• Airport Operations
• Resilience of the Air Transport Social-Technological System.
• Disruption Management or irregular operations management on any of the above topics.
• Performance, productivity and efficiency improvement in any of the above topics
• Human factors in any of the above topics
• Aviation economics and policy
• Air transport forecasting
• Regulatory environment for aviation

Committees

Program Committee

• Alexei Sharpanskykh, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
• Andrew Cook, University of Westminster (United Kingdom)
• Daniel Castro Silva, FEUP-DEI / LIACC (Portugal)
• Henk Blom, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR (The Netherlands)
• Jacco Hoekstra, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
• Jan Boril, Univeristy of Defence, Faculty of Military Technology (Czech Republic)
• Jorge Silva, University of Beira Interior, Aerospace Sciences Department (Portugal)
• Lorenzo Castelli, University of Trieste (Italy)
• Pernilla Ulfvengren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
• Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto (Portugal)
• Valerie Shalin, Wright State University (USA)
• Vladimir Gorodetsky, Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (Russia)

Organizing committee

• Ana Paula Rocha – LIACC, University of Porto (Portugal)
• António Castro – LIACC, University of Porto (Portugal)

Publication

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of the LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus).

Venue

The conference will be held in the High Technical School of Ávila, University of Salamance, Ávila, Spain  

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to aaat.paams@gmail.com.