MATES 2012 - The Tenth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies
"Research and Innovation for a Smarter Society"
October, 10th-12th, 2012.
Trier, Germany
http://mates2012.uni-trier.de
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The German conference on Multi-Agent system TEchnologieS (MATES)
provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users (members of
business and industry) and developers of intelligent agents and
multi-agent systems. The thematic focus of this MATES 2012 is on
technologies that enable societies and organisations to be more
resilient, inter-connected and collaborative. The conference
investigates technologies for truly open distributed systems ---
covering a wide spectrum of approaches from self-organization and
autonomous systems to agreement computing. Advances in research work, as
well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents will be
presented and discussed. The conference covers the whole range from
theory to application of agent- and multi-agent technologies in order to
promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. The
conference features an exhibition of practical applications with an
advanced concept of agency. Integral part of the technical program will
be an exhibition of a variety of tools for the development, and
prototypes of all kinds of practical applications of agent and
multi-agent technology at the conference venue. The conference will also
host a doctoral consortium.
For the tenth time the German special interest group on Distributed
Artificial Intelligence jointly with the steering committee of MATES
organizes this international conference in order to promote theory and
application of agents and multi-agent systems. Building on the sequence
of agent-related events in Germany in the past such as VDI 1998
(Chemnitz), VertIS 2001 (Bamberg), and KI 2002 (Aachen), the MATES
conference series (from 2003 to 2011) now is exclusively devoted to
agents and multi-agent systems, and the cross-fertilization between
agent theory and application. This year is also the 20th year of the
German special inerest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence –
another reason for an inspiring conference on agents! The conference
language is English.
Salve – welcome to Trier! The conference takes place in Germany’s oldest
city - close to Saarbrücken, Frankfurt/Main and Luxemburg as well as the
well-known Leibniz Center for Informatics (Schloss Dagstuhl).
The MATES series has been ranked by the Computing Research & Education
initiative as a CORE B conference. The proceedings will be published as
Springer LNCS.
Contact: mates2012@easychair.org
TOPICS OF INTEREST
MATES 2012 welcomes contributions from the field of agent-oriented
computing and agent technologies. We solicit both basic as well as
applied research papers on recent advances in the area of intelligent
agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the
successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are
very welcome. MATES 2012 encourages submissions from recent and emerging
areas of interest such as a Autonomic Computing, Self-organisation and
Agreement Technologies. Additionally, we encourage the submission of
elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and
long-term directions for research and application.
The topics of interest for MATES-2012 include, but are not limited to,
the following:
• Agent-based simulation and analysis of social networks
• Agents and communities
• Large-scale agent-based simulation of cities, economies, etc.
• Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
• Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams,
coalitions, groups, and organizations
• Agents and autonomic computing
• Agent and multi-agent architectures
• Agents and peer-to-peer computing
• Agents and pervasive computing
• Agents for Ambient Intelligence
• Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
• Agent communication languages
• Agents for e-business and e-government
• Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and
architectures
• Agent to non-agent interoperability
• Agents in novel applications
• Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
• Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and
reputation
• Autonomous robots and robot teams
• Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial
and hybrid societies
• Complex systems and their management
• Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
• Deployed agent-based business applications
• Hybrid human and agent societies
• User modelling and interface agents
• Embodied conversational actors and believable agents
• Mobile agents
• Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
• Multi-agent-based simulation
• Multi-agent planning and scheduling
• Multi-agent platforms and tools
• Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents
• Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault
tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
• Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in
organizational models
• Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
• (Semantic) web services and agents
• Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions to MATES-2012 will be handled using the EasyChair
system at this link: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2012.
Submissions must comply with the following requirements:
* For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the
instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
* The length of each paper including figures and references shall not
exceed 14 pages.
* All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
* Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other
conferences or journals are not eligible for submission. However, we
encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted or presented in part
to a forum outside of agent technology.
Submissions not conforming to the above instructions may be rejected
without review.
Please notice that the submission of a paper should be regarded as an
undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will attend the conference to present the work.
MATES 2012 will include a doctoral mentoring program: This program will
provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established
researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to
get advice on managing their careers.
The Doctoral Mentoring Program will:
* Match each student with an established researcher who will act as a
mentor.
* Allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly
audience of other students, as well as mentors.
* Provide students with contacts and networking opportunities.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: April 21, 2012
Full papers due: April 28, 2012
Notification: June 19, 2012
Doctoral mentoring: July 13, 2012
Camera-ready submission: July 13, 2012
Early registration: August 5, 2012
Conference: October 10-12, 2012
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
* Christian Guttmann (EBTIC - Etisalat BT Innovation Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
* Ingo J. Timm (U Trier, Germany)
STEERING COMMITTEE
* Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
* Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany)
* Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
* Paolo Petta (U Vienna, Austria)
* Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
* Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht U, The Netherlands)
Samstag, 18. Februar 2012
Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012
Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems - PRIMA 2012
PRIMA 2012
The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 3-7, 2012
Co-located with PRICAI 2012, DC 2012 and PKAW 2012
Paper submission: March 30, 2012
Author notification: May 28, 2012
Camera-ready papers: June 15, 2012
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. The PRIMA 2012 Program Committee invites submissions of
original, unpublished, theoretical and 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.
PRIMA 2012 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series and
proceedings will be available at the conference. Submitted papers should be 12-15 pages
in Springer LNCS format and must be in a form suitable for "double-blind" review.
Each submission will be subject to peer review in two rounds coordinated by an international
Senior Program Committee, and authors will be able to provide a short "rebuttal" of the
reviews before final decisions are made. 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 to do so.
Submitted papers should not be under review or submitted for publication elsewhere during
the review period.
Springer LNCS Author Instructions: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Enquiries: prima2012-pc-chairs@cse.unsw.edu.au
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Organization
General Chairs
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)
Local Arrangements Chairs
Dickson Lukose (MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia)
Cheah Wai Shiang (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia)
Sponsorship Chairs
Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Jie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Program Chairs
Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Senior Program Committee
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Guido Governatori (NICTA, Australia)
Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University, Japan)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rey-Long Liu (Tzu Chi University, Taiwan)
Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
David Pynadath (University of Southern California, USA)
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Tutorial Chair
Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Workshop Chairs
Sherief Abdallah (British University in Dubai, UAE and University of Edinburgh, UK)
Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)
Publicity Chairs
Jacob Crandall (Masdar Institute, UAE and MIT, USA)
Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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Topics
Foundations of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Logics of Agency
Logics of Multi-Agent Systems
Normative Systems
Computational Game Theory
Uncertainty in Agent Systems
Agent and Multi-Agent Learning
Agent and Multi-Agent System Architectures
Agent Programming Languages and Platforms
Multi-Agent System Languages and Platforms
BDI Architectures and Extensions
Normative Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
AOSE Methodologies
Tools for Agent and Multi-Agent System Development
Formal Specification and Verification
Deployed System Case Studies
Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation
Simulation Languages and Platforms
Artificial Societies
Virtual Environments
Workflow Simulation
Emergent Behaviour
Modelling System Dynamics
Application Case Studies
Collaboration/Coordination/Communication
Agent Communication Languages and Protocols
Distributed Problem Solving
Teamwork Models
Coalition Formation
Argumentation, Negotiation, Bargaining
Auctions and Mechanism Design
Trust and Reputation
Computational Voting Theory
Hybrid Technologies
Agents in Planning
Agent-Based Scheduling
Agent-Based Optimization
Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Agents and Data Mining
Semantic Web Agents
Agents and Grid Computing
Agents and Service Oriented Computing
Agents and Pervasive Computing
Robotics and Multi-Robot Systems
Application Domains
Healthcare
Transport/Logistics
Emergency/Disaster Management
Energy/Utility Management
Sustainability/Resource Management
Games/Entertainment
eBusiness/eCommerce/eGovernment
eResearch/eLearning
Security/Surveillance
Smart Cities
Applications
Adaptive Personal Assistants
Embodied Conversational Agents
Virtual Characters
Multi-Modal User Interfaces
Autonomous Systems
Mobile Agents
Human-Robot Interaction
Social Recommender Systems
Montag, 13. Februar 2012
EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS (EEA'12)
** WORKSHOP ON EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS **
at AAMAS 2012
June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea
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2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
[apologies for cross-postings, please distribute]
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Workshop Organizers
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João Dias (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
Janneke van der Zwaan (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Jason Tsai (University of Southern California, USA)
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Senior Steering Committee
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Ana Paiva (PT)
Catholijn Jonker (NL)
Stacy Marsella (USA)
Virginia Dignum (NL)
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Goals
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The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the creation of what we call "empathic agents". Empathy has been associated with the processes that make a person to have "feelings that are more congruent with another's situation than with his own situation". Humans, when interacting with virtual agents or robots can be led to feel empathy, and experience a diverse set of emotional reactions. On the other hand, agents and robots can in a certain, perhaps limited way, also show certain emotions in reaction to human emotions, thus seemingly expressing empathy towards other agents and towards humans. Further, agents interacting in social simulation scenarios may react to the other agents in a way that is more congruent with the other's. Thus, by seeking inspiration in empathic relations established between humans and between humans and animals, in this workshop we expect to explore these dimensions of empathic agents.
This workshop is multidisciplinary in nature. We expect to involve researchers who are not only interesting in studying intelligent virtual agents, social simulation and social robotics, but also those interested in empathy, cognition, ethology, emotions, human interactions, computer graphics, human-robots interaction and human/computer interaction.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Models of empathy
- Empathy for rational agents
- Architectures for empathic agents and robots
- Emotional contagion
- Emotional interactions and regulation with agents
- Emotion modeling for empathic agents and robots
- User modeling for empathic agents and robots
- Social robots and social agents and empathy
- Inter-agent communication and empathy
- Expression of virtual agents for empathic interactions
- Empathy and facial expressions in virtual agents
- Empathic synthetic speech for virtual agents
- Applications to health and social education
- Interactive storytelling and empathy
- Entertainment and education applications
- Emotional and empathic agents in video games
- Empathy and long term interactions with virtual agents and robots
- Evaluating empathy in agents and robots
- Evaluating human empathic reactions to artificial agents and robots
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Important Dates
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Paper submission: February 28, 2012
Acceptance notification: March 27, 2012
Camera ready: April 10, 2012
Uploading of workshop papers to website: May 1, 2012
Workshop: June 4-5, 2012 (provisory date)
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Submissions
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Researchers are invited to submit papers for the workshop focusing the topics of interest of the workshop stating clearly how they can contribute to the themes proposed. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages and must use the AAMAS format (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=19). All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a single-blind review process. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop.
Papers should be submitted through Easychair in pdf format: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eeaaamas2012
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Program Committee
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Please check the program committee members at http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea/index.php/committees
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