12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

Prague, Czech Republic, 18-19 December 2014

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Call for Papers

Introduction

In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-based computing. This field is now set to become one of the key technologies in the 21st century. It is crucial that both academics and industrialists within Europe have access to a forum at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed.
Following the tradition of previous editions of EUMAS (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013), the aim of this 12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
This conference is primarily intended as a European forum at which researchers, and those interested in activities relating to research in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, could meet, present (potentially preliminary) research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but academic environment. To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as matured work, EUMAS 2014 offers three submission types and formal proceedings as well as post-proceedings in form of a journal special issue are planned.
EUMAS 2014 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Action and Planning, Adaptation and Learning, Agent Architectures, Agent Programming Languages, Agents and Complex Systems, Agent Based Simulation, Ambient Intelligence Applications, Argumentation, Autonomy, Bio-inspired Approaches to Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Cognitive Models, Collective and Swarm Intelligence, Collective Intentionality, Communication, Competition, Complexity, Cooperation, Coordination, e-*Applications (e-commerce, etc.), Economic Models, Emergence, Emotion, Formal Models, Game Theoretic Models, Grid Computing, Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, Methodologies, Negotiation, Organisations and Institutions, Proactivity and Reactivity, Protocols, Robotics, Self-organisation, Semantic Web Agents, Agent-based Service Oriented Computing, Socio-technical Systems, Agent-oriented Software Engineering, Standards, Teamwork, Theories of Agency, Tools, Trust and Reputation, Ubiquitous Computing, Verification, Virtual Agents.

Submissions

EUMAS 2014 welcomes both original, unpublished papers, as well as papers that are under submission or have been published in a relevant conference, conference or journal. We specially invite submissions by students that we think will receive valuable feedback from the discussion-oriented focus of the conference. Preliminary student work is welcome; however it has to possess sufficient substance for serving as a discussion basis and therefore has to pass the review cycle in the same way as other work.

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories:

  • (1) Full research papers of 12 to 15 pages, describing original and unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.
  • (2) Short papers of 6 to 8 pages reporting on original and unpublished work in progress or system descriptions. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.
  • (3) Full research papers up to 15 pages reporting on interesting and relevant work that has been published (or accepted for publication) in the last 18 months.

Each submission will be peer-reviewed. All submissions should be formatted following Springer's LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

We request the submission of title and abstract prior the paper submission for supporting the tight schedule of reviewing. The authors must submit their abstracts and papers through the EUMAS 2014 Easychair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2014

Proceedings and Special Issue

Proceedings

This year, EUMAS has formal conference proceedings published as a Springer LNCS/LNAI (post-)proceedings volume (www.springer.com/lncs). Full research papers and short papers describing original, unpublished work (categories 1 and 2) accepted at EUMAS 2014 will be included in the proceedings.

We will give authors of accepted papers the opportunity to revise the camera ready version of their paper(s) in order to incorporate feedback received upon the presentation of their work during the conference. The deadline for this revision is: January 14, 2015

Journal Special Issue

A special issue of the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI, Springer) is planned, consisting of a small number of best papers extended with additional unpublished original work and fully refereed according to usual journal standards. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit to the special issue.

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: September 26 October 6, 2014 (extended deadline)
  • Paper submission deadline: September 29 October 11, 2014 (extended deadline)
  • Author notification: November 7, 2014
  • Camera-ready version: December 1, 2014
  • Conference: December 18-19, 2014