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10th Thematic Track on

MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA @ EPIA2019)

3-6 September 2019, Vila Real, Portugal

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Aims and Scope

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 10th thematic track on “MultiAgent Systems: Theory and Applications”, to take place at EPIA 2019, 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.

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 issues: organizations, institutions, norms, socio-technical systems

• Trust, reputation, privacy and security

Paper Submission Instructions

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019.

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length and must adhere to the formatting instructions of the conference. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double blind, so authors should remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and must take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. Acceptance will be based on the paper’s significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. All accepted papers must be presented orally the conference by one of the authors and at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

This track also accepts short papers submissions (maximum of 6 pages) for position papers, work in progress and application/demonstration papers. The registration fee is the same for regular and short papers. In case of acceptance, authors will have the same time for paper presentation.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2019 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2019 April 30, 2019

Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2019

Camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2019

Conference dates: September 3-6, 2019

Organizing Committee

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (hlc@fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC

Viviane Torres da Silva (vivianet@br.ibm.com), IBM Research Brazil

Dave de Jonge (davedejonge@iiia.csic.es), IIIA-CSIC, Spain

Luís Antunes (lantunes@fc.ul.pt), FCUL / BioISI

Steering Committee

Eugénio Oliveira (eco@fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC

Hélder Coelho (hcoelho@di.fc.ul.pt), FCUL

João Balsa (jbalsa@di.fc.ul.pt), FCUL

Luís Paulo Reis (lpreis@fe.up.pt), FEUP / LIACC

Program Committee

Adriana Giret, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Alberto Fernandez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Ana Paula Rocha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy

António Castro, TAP Air Portugal + LIACC, Portugal

Carlos Carrascosa, GTI-IA DSIC Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Carlos Martinho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Daniel Silva, University of Porto, Portugal

Diana Adamatti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

F. Jordan Srour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Francisco Grimaldo, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Javier Carbó, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain

João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

John-Jules Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jordi Sabater-Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

Jorge Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

Juan Burguillo, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Juan Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Lars Braubach, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Laurent Vercouter, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France

Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Luís Nunes, ISCTE, Portugal

Luís Macedo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Marin Lujak, Institute Mines-Télécom, France

Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Olivier Boissier, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France

Paolo Torroni, Università di Bologna, Italy

Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Rafael Bordini, Pontífica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ramón Hermoso, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University, Turkey

Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK

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Submission deadline: April 30, 2019
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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable.

Affect and social behavior plays an important role in the development of Ambient Intelligent Environments. Consideration of aspects like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviors.

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

In the Thematic track on AmIA Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics included in the Ambient Intelligence and affective environments. Researchers are welcome to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions achieved and relevant results.

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Contributions
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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient Intelligence and Affective environments. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
– Applications
– Ambient Assisted Living
– Ubiquitous Computing
– Artificial Intelligence for AmI
– Intelligent Environments
– Pervasive Computing
– Context Aware Computing
– Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
– Mobile Computing
– Sentient Computing
– e-Health
– Context Modelling
– AmI for e-Learning
– On-line Dispute Resolution
– Memory Assistant
– Computational models of emotions
– Group Emotion
– Affect and learning
– Artificial characters
– Affect and emotion recognition

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Submission Information and paper publication
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Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIAí2019 submission Website (easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019) selecting the track Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

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).

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Important Dates
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*• Full Paper Submission: April 30, 2019*
• Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2019
• Camera ready Papers: June 15, 2019
• Conference Date: September 3-6, 2019
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Organizing Committee
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Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt)
Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn@isep.ipp.pt)
Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)
Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic (Peter.Mikulecky@uhk.cz)