2nd CfP - EMAS 2019

[Tobias Ahlbrecht]

 CFP - 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS
2019)
Co-located with AAMAS 2019
13th-14th of May, 2019, Montreal, Canada

Info: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019
Contact: emas.aamas2019 at gmail.com
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A main unifying theme underlying Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning is the idea of an intelligent agent able to reason, act, interact,
and learn. This metaphor has stimulated much research in AI and
particularly in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), giving
rise to research in agent-oriented software engineering, programming
multi-agent systems, and declarative agent languages and technologies.

EMAS 2019 aims to gather researchers and practitioners working in these
areas to present and discuss their research and emerging results in MAS
engineering. The overall purpose of this workshop is to facilitate the
cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences in the various fields to:
1. Enhance knowledge and expertise in MAS engineering and improve the state
or-the art;
2. Define new directions for MAS engineering that are useful to
practitioners, relying in results and recommendations coming from different
but continuous research areas;
3. Investigate how practitioners can use or need to adapt established
methodologies for the engineering of large-scale and open MAS;
4. Involve more master and PhD students.

TOPICS

The main topics include but are not limited to:
- Software engineering methodologies and techniques, and development
concerns for MAS
- Formal methods and declarative technologies for specification,
verification, and engineering of MAS
- Programming frameworks, languages, models and abstractions for all
aspects of MAS
- Tools and testbeds
- Empirical studies and (industrial) experience reports on engineering MAS
applications

For a detailed list of subtopics, see
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019/cfp.html

SUBMISSIONS

We solicit four types of submission:
- Regular papers should (1) clearly describe innovative and original
research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field, or (3)
explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world case. (16
pages in LNCS format).
- Short papers should describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques
that are in an early stage of development. To that end, short papers will
be reviewed under specific review guidelines (8 pages in LNCS format).
- Doctoral project papers should describe a research effort of an MSc
student or the dissertation research of a PhD student in the field of
engineering multi-agent systems. The paper should clearly describe the
problem tackled, a justification why this problem is important, the
research method, the (expected) contributions of the research, and the
evaluation. This paper can be co-authored by the student and their
supervisor(s) only (6 pages in LNCS format).
- Tool, testbeds and demo papers should describe a novel tool or
demonstration in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. Submission
may range from early prototypes to in-house or pre-commercialised products.
Authors of other EMAS 2019 papers are also welcomed to submit an
accompanying tool/demo paper. The paper should provide a link to
supplementary material that allows the reviewers to evaluate the submission
such as website or movie link (4 pages in LNCS format).

Submission policy: all papers should be original and not be submitted
elsewhere. The review process is single blind: submissions should not be
blind, reviewers will be.
The LNCS formatting style is available via:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
The Easychair submission page can be found here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2019. When you enter the title
of your paper in the data section in EasyChair, you must add as the first
word the category to which the paper has been submitted (this first word
does not need to be included in the submitted paper):
- REGULAR for regular papers (16 pages long)
- SHORT for short papers (8 pages long)
- DOCTORAL for doctoral project papers (6 pages long)
- DEMO for tools, testbeds, and demo papers (4 pages long)

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit revised and extended
versions of the EMAS papers for inclusion in the post-proceedings that we
will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 12 Feb, 2019
Notification: 10 March, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: 1 April, 2019
EMAS: 13-14 May, 2019


COMMITTEES

Organising Committee

Rafael H. Bordini, PUCRS, Brazil (http://www.inf.pucrs.br/r.bordini)
Louise Dennis, University of Liverpool, UK (
http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/index.html)
Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~lesperan)

EMAS Steering Committee

Matteo Baldoni
Rafael Bordini
Mehdi Dastani
Jürgen Dix
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Brian Logan
Jörg P. Müller
Ingrid Nunes
Alessandro Ricci
M. Birna Van Riemsdijk
Danny Weyns
Michael Winikoff
Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
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