[PlanetKR] 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

[Mary-Anne Williams]

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]

Kolkata, India

November 12th -15th, 2010

www.prima2010.org

Agent computing and technology is an exciting, emerging paradigm expected to
play a key role in many society-changing practices from disaster response to
manufacturing, and from energy management to agriculture. Agent and
multi-agent
researchers are focused on building working systems that bring together a
broad
range of technical areas from market theory to software engineering to user
interfaces. Agent systems are expected to operate in real-world
environments,
with all the challenges that such environments present.

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.

PRIMA 2010 will see a number of changes to the reviewing process. These
changes
are designed to further raise the quality of the reviewing process and of
the
accepted papers. Specifically, PRIMA 2010 will:

   * introduce an author response phase in which authors are able to respond
     to reviews;
   * use double blind reviewing;
   * introduce a Senior Programme Committee (SPC), who are tasked with
     overseeing the review process of specific papers.

Additionally, PRIMA 2010 will introduce a "shepherding" process for
borderline
papers. This process will see a PC or SPC member working with authors of
borderline papers to provide additional support during the revision process
in
order to improve the presentation of the paper. Finally, PRIMA 2010 will
replace
short posters with full-length “work in progress” papers. This is being done
in
order to allow sufficient space for papers to explain their contribution,
whilst
still clearly distinguishing between full  papers and weaker papers that
still
have merit.

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).

Submission Details

Submissions are through easychair.

For regular papers, please submit a PDF file in ACM SIG Proceedings format,
at
most eight (8) pages long (note that this is a change from last year, which
used
LNCS format). The paper should not include author details (i.e. be
anonymous).

Note that abstract submissions are requested a week before the paper
deadline
(i.e. 24th for abstracts, 31st for papers).

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)

Workshop Chairs: Hoa Khanh Dam (University of Wollongong, Australia) and
       Tru Hoang Cao (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam)

Tutorial Chairs: Sujata Ghosh (Gottingen University, Netherlands) and
       Aniruddha Dasgupta (Calcutta University, India)

Local Organizing Chair: Nabendu Chaki (Calcutta University)

Local Finance Chair: Mridul Barik (Jadavpur University)

See the committees page for list of SPC and PC members.

Themes and Topics

Agents and Service Science
Agent-oriented frameworks, methods, and tools for SOA
Agent-based simulation and optimization of service systems
Agent-based modeling and analysis of service contracts
Agent-based service description, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling of service delivery
Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs
Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems
Agent-based service business models and case studies

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

Papers
July 24th, 2010 (abstract)
July 31st, 2010 (paper)

Author Response
August 19-22

Author notification
September 1st, 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
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