Con un po’ di stupore, mi accorgo che nella mia mailbox stanno iniziando ad arrivare le prime call for papers per conferenze che si terranno nel 2011. Come passa in fretta il tempo, eh? Tra le varie che mi sono arrivate in questi giorni, condivido con voi quella relativa a PAAMS 2011, la 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Sede del convegno e’ l’interessantissima Salamanca. La conferenza e’ programmata per durare 3 giorni (dal 6 all’8 aprile 2011) e va a coprire una moltitudine di temi legati ai sistemi multi-agente. Nel seguito del post potete trovare la call for papers completa, nonche’ tutti i riferimenti necessari per approfondire un po’ la questione.

PAAMS 2011
9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
http://www.paams.net
e-mail: paams@usal.es
Salamanca (Spain), 6-8th April, 2011
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
- 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
SUBMISSION
- Review process
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. 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.
- Types of submissions
Regular Paper: They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Doctoral Papers: PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts.
- Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
- Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2011 Proceedings. 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing.
PAAMS is listed in the Computer Science Conference Ranking as one of the top conferences in Artificial Intelligence (Position 52).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2010
Camera-Ready papers due: December 30, 2010
Conference Celebration: April 6-8, 2011
COMMITTEES
- Program
Yves Demazeau – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Michal Pechoucek – Czek Republic Univeristy in Prague (Czek Republic)
- Organization
Juan M. Corchado – University of Salamanca (Spain)
Javier Bajo – Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)
CONTACT
Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Web: http://www.paams.net
Email: paams@usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34 618 696589 Fax: +34 923 294514