15-18 Feb 2013
Barcelona, Spain
CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2013 Website: http://www.icaart.org/ February 15 - 18, 2013 Barcelona, Spain Important Deadlines: Position Paper Submission: October 29, 2012 Authors Notification (position papers): November 30, 2012 Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: December 14, 2012 Sponsored by: INSTICC- Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: fiPa- Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition OMG- Object Management Group In Cooperation with: AAAI- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand. A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer- Verlag. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/. CONFERENCE CHAIR Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Keynote SPEAKERS Elias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg University, Netherlands Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI. AWARDS Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.icaart.org/best_paper_awards.asp). Conference Areas Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. AGENTS 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AREA 1: AGENTS Agent Models and Architectures Agent Communication Languages Distributed Problem Solving Collective Intelligence Semantic Web Simulation Multi-Agent Systems Privacy, safety and security Mobile Agents Economic Agent Models Auctions and Markets SOA and Software Agents Agent Platforms and Interoperability Web Intelligence Group Decision Making Physical Agents Robot and Multi-robot Systems Self Organizing Systems Cognitive Robotics Autonomous Systems Task Planning and Execution Programming Environments and Languages Negotiation and Interaction Protocols Conversational Agents Cooperation and Coordination Cloud Computing AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Ontologies Model-Based Reasoning Uncertainty in AI Bayesian Networks Ambient Intelligence Reactive AI Hybrid Intelligent Systems Planning and Scheduling Case-Based Reasoning Machine Learning Pattern Recognition Vision and Perception AI and Creativity Expert Systems Soft Computing Fuzzy Systems Neural Networks Evolutionary Computing Intelligent User Interfaces Natural language processing Cognitive Systems State Space Search Constraint Satisfaction Data Mining Industrial applications of AI Program Committee http://www.icaart.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx (list not yet complete) Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icaart.org).