Call for Papers - 21st International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and multi-agents systems (PAAMS'23)

Scope

Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become The international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

Topics

Special Topic of the 2023 edition:
“Cognitive Mimetics”

Problems

Agent-based simulation and prediction
Distributed problem solving
Agent cooperation and negotiation
Agent societies and social networks
Real-time multi-agent systems
Human agent interaction, user interfaces
Adaptation, learning and personalization
Reputation, trust, privacy and security
Agent engineering and development tools
Evaluation, ethical and legal issues

Domains

Information recovery and information systems
Knowledge management and data intensive systems
Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
Embodied agents and autonomous systems
Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
Internet softbots and web intelligence
Virtual agents, animation and games
Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
E-learning and educational systems
User-centered applications and assisting agents

Awards

Demonstration award

The best demo paper in PAAMS'23 will be awarded by AIR Institute with 1000€ and trip to visit its headquarters (trip & accommodation).

An extended and improved versión of the demo paper will be published in the Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ADCAIJ) journal.

More information: https://www.paams.net/open-calls/call-for-demonstration

Submissions

Format

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.

The maximum length of the papers is 12 pages (6 pages in Demonstrations), including figures and references:

Submission

All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS conference management system.

Review process

PAAMS welcomes the submission of papers and gives preference to the topics listed under the call. 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.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 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. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

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Special Issues

MDPI Systems Journal — Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2))

Important dates

General deadline: ~~24th March, 2023~~ ~~14th April, 2023~~ 24th April, 2023 (last extension)
Demonstrations - Paper submission deadline: ~~14th April, 2023~~ ~~21st April, 2023~~ 28th April, 2023 (last extension)