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.

Special Topic of the 2021 edition: Trustworthiness

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


Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The maximum length of the papers is 12 pages (4 pages in Demonstrations & Doctoral Consortium), including figures and references.


General deadlines
Main track deadline 23rd April, 2021
Workshops deadline 30th April, 2021
Demonstrations deadline 24th May, 2021
Doctoral Consortium deadline 24th May, 2021
Notification of acceptance 7th June, 2021
Camera-Ready papers 28th June, 2021
Conference Celebration 6th-8th October, 2021