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 system, 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

DEMO AWARD

The best demo paper in PAAMS'13 will be awarded with 2000€ and a
diploma.

GRANTS

The BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca, organiser of PAAMS 2013, offers 40 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.

More information: http://www.paams.net/grants

SUBMISSION

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.

Types of submissions
Regular Paper: They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Doctoral Papers: PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts.

Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the
Paper Submission Page.

Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2012 Proceedings. 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.
PAAMS is listed in the Computer Science Conference Ranking as one of the top conferences in Artificial Intelligence (Position 52).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: November 26th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: January 28th, 2012
Camera-Ready papers due: February 25th, 2013
Conference Celebration: May 22nd-24th, 2013

COMMITTEES

Program

Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(France)
Toru Ishida - Kyoto University (Japan)

Organization

Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Javier Bajo - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

CONTACT

Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Dr. Javier Bajo

Web:http://www.paams.net
Email: paams@usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34
618 696589
Fax: +34 923 294514

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