First CFP: The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA2010)

[Brendon Woodford]

Call for Papers
The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2010)
[Formerly Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents]
November 12th -15th, 2010
http://www.prima2010.org/

PRIMA is a leading scientific conference for research on intelligent agent and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference endeavours to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and industry leaders, who are active and interested in agents and multi-agent systems, their practices and related areas. The conference has a strong focus on practice, and is focused on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed agent systems. Thus PRIMA particularly encourages reports on development of prototype and deployed agent and multi-agent systems, and experiments that demonstrate the capability of agents to handle real-world challenges. In order to facilitate the inclusion of system descriptions, which are often not served well by paper descriptions, PRIMA includes a Multimedia submission track.

PRIMA offers an exceptional opportunity for presentation of original work, technological advances, practical problems and concerns of the research community. Papers addressing methodological or theoretical aspects or particular aspects of agent development are also encouraged. A broad range of topics are of interest but all papers should clearly identify how the contribution brings the promise of practical multi-agent systems closer and identify their scientific and/or technical contributions to the PRIMA community.

In addition to the themes listed below, a key theme for PRIMA 2010 is agents and services, where the intent is to explore the connections between the agent technology and services (both in the sense of service science and service-oriented computing). We especially encourage papers that deal with the application of agent techniques to the challenges in the services area. There are clear relationships between the work in services and the work on agents, and there is increasing crossover between the two communities. 

Papers addressing methodological or theoretical aspects or particular aspects of agent development are also encouraged. A broad range of topics are of interest but all papers should clearly identify how their contribution brings the promise of practical multi-agent systems closer; and what their scientific and/or technical contribution is to the PRIMA community.

PRIMA2010 will build on the success of its predecessor workshops and conferences held in Nagoya, Hanoi, Bangkok, Guilin, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Kyoto, and Singapore. Since 2007, due to the need for an additional high-quality forum for international researchers and practitioners to meet and share their work, the meeting has been expanded from a workshop to a full-fledged conference.

The PRIMA proceedings will be published by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), which sponsors and publishes the proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Selected papers accepted to PRIMA will be invited to be expanded and published as a special issue with the journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS).

Organization:

General Chairs
B.P. Sinha (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Chandan Mazumdar (Jadavpur University, India)
Abdul Sattar (Griffith University, Australia) 
Program Chairs
Nirmit Desai (IBM Research, India)
Alan Liu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Senior Program Committee (partial list):

Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Michael Luck, King's College London, UK
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Carles Sierra, IIIA - CSIC, Spain
Munindar Singh, NCSU, USA
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan
Wiebe van-der-Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK

Themes and Topics:

Agent-based system development
Agent-oriented software engineering
Agent development environments
Agent languages
Case studies and implemented systems

WWW and Semantic Web Agents
Web-based agents
Ontology agents
Semantic Web agents
Internet Bots
Human Agent Interaction

Agent Technologies for Service Computing
Service composition with agent collaboration
Service brokering and agency
Personalized services with agent adaptation
SLA definition and monitoring as agent goals

Agent Reasoning
Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
Planning (single and multi-agent)
Cognitive models
Ontological reasoning

Interface Agents
Practices of Interface Agents
Interface Multi-Agents
Virtual Agents
Collaborative Interface Agents
Autonomous Interface Agents

Agent societies and social networks
Artificial social systems
Trust and reputation
Social and organizational structure
Privacy, safety and security
Ethical and legal issues

Agent communication
Communication languages
Communication protocols
Agent commitments
Network structures and analysis
Agent Cooperation and Negotiation
Teamwork
Cooperation
Coalition formation
Coordination
Distributed problem solving
Formal models for modeling other agents and self
Argumentation
Negotiation and Bargaining
Persuasion

Agent Systems
Software agents
Mobile agents
Agent-Based Assistants
Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
Socially Situated Planning Software and Pervasive Agents

Real-world Robotics
Coordination in multi-robot systems
Modeling and analysis of multi-robot systems
Tools that are relevant for multi-robot studies
Applications of multi-robot systems to real-world problems

Other Related Areas
Collective intelligence
Service science
P2P, Grid computing
Financial markets and algorithm trades
Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence
Programming Languages
Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
Perceptive Animated Interfaces
Scalability
Tools and Standards
Ubiquitous Software Services
Virtual Humans

Agent-based simulations
Emergent behavior Simulation-specific issues Learning
Learning (single and multi-agent)
Computational architectures for learning Evolution, adaptation

Important Dates:

Workshop/Tutorial proposals
June 1st, 2010

Workshop/Tutorial notifications
June 15, 2010

Multimedia:
Submission: June 9th, 2010
Notification: June 16th, 2010

Papers
July,  31st, 2010

Author notification
September 10th, 2010

Camera-ready papers
September 20th, 2010

Early registration deadline
September  27th, 2010 

Registration deadline
November 1st, 2010

Workshops and Tutorials
November 12th, 2010

Conference dates
November 12th - 15th, 2010