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

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission date: 29th January, 2018
Notification date: 12th March, 2018
Camera-ready deadline: 26th March, 2018
Conference dates: 20th-22nd June, 2018

SUBMISSIONS
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.

Submitting papers: All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2018 conference management system.

Publication: Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2018 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag.

Special Issues: Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2018 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in diffetent journals.


DEMONSTRATIONS AWARDS: The best demo in PAAMS 2018 will be awarded with a 2.000€ price.


CALL FOR GRANTS/AWARDS: PAAMS 2018 in collaboration with the n&aIS offers 40 grants/awards to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel Co-located events.
More information: www.paams.net/open-calls/call-for-grants-awards

COMMITTEE
Program:
Yves Demazeau. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. France
Bo An. Nanyang Technological University. Singapore

Organization:
Antonio Fernández Caballero. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain
Javier Bajo. Technical University of Madrid. Spain

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