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21st EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS -- EUMAS 2024
August 26-28, School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
https://euramas.github.io/eumas2024/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for papers submission: May 31, 2024 (extended)
- Notification to authors: June 30, 2024
- Camera-Ready Papers: July 15, 2024
- Conference: 26-28 August 2024

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e. while it is still the respective date anywhere on Earth.

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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EUMAS 2024 is an EURAMAS designated event which follows the tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014, Athens 2015, Valencia 2016, Evry 2017, Bergen 2018, Thessaloniki 2020, Israel (online) 2021 Düsseldorf 2023, Naples 2023), and aims to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi- agent systems, in academic and industrial effort. The conference aspires to be the primary European forum for researchers interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. EUMAS enables researchers to meet, present challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open environment. EUMAS 2024 features formal proceedings published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer.

This year, EUMAS is accepting submissions across 4 tracks:

* Main Track (15 pages + references)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Action and Planning, Adaptation and Learning; Agent Architectures; Agent Programming Languages; Agent Development Methodologies and Tools; Agent-Based Simulations and Modelling; Agent Organizations and Institutions; Agent-oriented Software Engineering; Agents and Complex Systems; Applications of Multi-agent Systems; Argumentation; Automated negotiation; Biologically inspired approaches; Cognitive Models; Collective and Swarm Intelligence; Collective Intentionality; Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination; Computational Social Choice; Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains; Economic Models; Electronic Commerce; Ethical behaviour of multi-agent systems; Formal Modelling; Game-Theoretic Methods; Human-Agent Interaction; Logics for Multi-Agent Systems; Logics for Strategic Reasoning; Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems; Multi-Agent Learning; Multi-Robot Systems; Negotiation; Self-organization; Semantic Web Agents; Social Networks; Socio-technical Systems; Theories of Agency; Trust and Reputation; Verification; Virtual Agents; Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems

* Agents and Ethics

This track is focussed on the implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms in various autonomous decision-making settings. Depending on the context of the agent (software / hardware), the kinds of values (or value-conflicts) that are encountered could be quite varied. The multiplicity and agency of the stakeholders involved (from highly trained human-machine teams to a cohort of elderly / children), also affect the possible value considerations deeply. This track aims to provide a venue for discussions of problems, possible solution-concepts, best practices, benchmarks, related to machine ethics.

* Agent Toolkits

This track aims to provide a forum for researchers that are involved in developing agent/MAS toolkits and platforms, or that are using them for the development of applications, to exchange ideas, make proposals, suggest challenges, reports interesting use cases and so on - any aspect that could be of interest in the engineering and using Agent Toolkits.

* Demonstrators (5 pages + references)

This track aims to provide opportunities for participants from academia and industry to present their latest developments in agent-based systems. Demonstrations of interest include both applications of multi-agent systems and tools that support developers in the specification, design, implementation and testing of agent systems.

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All submissions will be peer-reviewed in a doubly blind fashion. Specifically, all submissions should be anonymized. Submission should be at most 15 pages long, with any number of pages for references and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix and be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Authors must submit their papers through the EUMAS 2024 Easychair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2024 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2024) as a single PDF file.

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Proceedings
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As for previous editions, we plan to publish EUMAS 2024 accepted papers by Springer in an LNAI volume. As such, they will be made available to several indexing services (including Scopus, CPCI, EI Engineering Index, and more). Additional guidelines will be communicated to the authors of accepted papers for the preparation of the final versions to be included in the post-proceedings.

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Journal Special Issue & Fast-Track review
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As for previous year editions, we plan to select the best papers for a special issue on a relevant journal for the community. More details in the future about this.

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Colocated Events
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We are pleased to announce a number of events will take place during and before EUMAS 2024:

- European Agents Summer School (EASSS 2024)
- W3C Autonomous Agents on the Web (WebAgents) Community Group Meeting
- Distributed Knowledge Graphs (COST CA 19134) Community Meeting (TBC)

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Chairs
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Rem Collier (University College Dublin)
Alessandro Ricci (Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna)