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CALL FOR PAPERS


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The Ninth European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (EUMAS)

Maastricht (The Netherlands)
November 14th-15th, 2011
http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/eumas2011/

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In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-based computing. This field is now set to become one of the key technologies in the 21st century. It is crucial that both academics and industrialists within Europe have access to a forum at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed.

Following in the tradition of past EUMAS (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, and Paris 2010), the aim of this Ninth European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.

This workshop is primarily intended as a European forum at which researchers and those interested in activities relating to research in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems could meet, present (potentially preliminary) research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but academic environment.

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Topics of interest
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Topics include but are not limited to:

⁃ Action and Planning
⁃ Adaptation and Learning
⁃ Agent Architectures
⁃ Agent Programming Languages
⁃ Agents and Complex Systems
⁃ Agent Based Simulation
⁃ Agent Based Service Oriented Computing
⁃ Agent Oriented Software Engineering
⁃ Ambient Intelligence
⁃ Applications
⁃ Argumentation
⁃ Autonomy
⁃ Bio-inspired Approaches to Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
⁃ Cognitive Models
⁃ Collective and Swarm Intelligence
⁃ Collective Intentionality
⁃ Communication
⁃ Competition
⁃ Complexity
⁃ Cooperation
⁃ Coordination
⁃ E-Applications
⁃ Economic Models
⁃ Emergence
⁃ Emotion
⁃ Formal Models
⁃ Game Theoretic Models
⁃ Grid Computing
⁃ Methodologies
⁃ Multi-Agent Planning
⁃ Negotiation
⁃ Organisations and Institutions
⁃ Proactivity and Reactivity
⁃ Protocols
⁃ Robotics
⁃ Self-organisation
⁃ Semantic Web Agents
⁃ Standards
⁃ Teamwork
⁃ Theories of Agency
⁃ Tools
⁃ Trust and Reputation
⁃ Ubiquitous Computing
⁃ Verification
⁃ Virtual Agents

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Important dates
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Abstracts due: September 5th, 2011
Full papers due: September 10th, 2011
Notification: October 7th, 2011
Camera-ready submission: October 23rd, 2011
EUMAS 2011 workshop: November 14th-15th, 2011


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DEMOS TRACK
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The EUMAS DEMOs track aims to provide opportunities for participants from academia and/or industry to present their latest developments in agent-based systems (software and/or hardware). Accepted Demo submitters will be expected to present a poster and live demonstration by at least one author during the designated time slot in Maastricht.

Demos proposals are to be submitted in form of a two pages paper including bibliography and following the same template of the main event. Papers must be submitted online using the workshop website.

Accepted papers will be included in EUMAS proceedings.


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Important Dates (DEMOS Track)
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Submission deadline: September, 15th, 2011
Notification: October, 10th, 2011
Camera-Ready Paper: October 23rd, 2011



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General co-chairs:

Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)
Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)

Program chair:

Massimo Cossentino (ICAR-CNR, Italy)