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Second Call for Papers
EUMAS 2014
12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

December 18-19, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic
http://agents.fel.cvut.cz/eumas2014/

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IMPORTANT NEWS: We are happy to announce that Springer confirmed to publish the EUMAS 2014
proceedings as an LNCS/LNAI volume. Please note that the page limit for short papers
has been modified.
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INTRODUCTION

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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 the tradition of previous editions of EUMAS (Oxford 2003, Barcelona
2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009,
Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013), the aim of this
12th European Conference 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 conference 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, can meet, present (potentially
preliminary) research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but
academic environment. To attract students and experienced researchers, preliminary
as well as mature work, EUMAS 2014 offers three submission types and has formal
proceedings published by Springer as LNCS/LNAI volume. A journal special issue
is planned as well.

EUMAS 2014 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent
Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Action and Planning, Adaptation and Learning, Agent Architectures, Agent
Programming Languages, Agents and Complex Systems, Agent Based Simulation,
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 (e-commerce, etc.),
Economic Models, Emergence, Emotion, Formal Models, Game Theoretic Models,
Grid Computing, Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, Methodologies, Negotiation,
Organisations and Institutions, Proactivity and Reactivity, Protocols,
Robotics, Self-organisation, Semantic Web Agents, Agent-based Service Oriented
Computing, Socio-technical Systems, Agent-oriented Software Engineering,
Standards, Teamwork, Theories of Agency, Tools, Trust and Reputation,
Ubiquitous Computing, Verification, Virtual Agents.


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SUBMISSIONS

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EUMAS 2014 welcomes both original, unpublished papers, as well as papers that are
under submission or have been published in a relevant conference, conference or
journal. We specially invite submissions by students that we think will receive
valuable feedback from the discussion-oriented focus of the conference.
Preliminary student work is welcome; however, it has to possess sufficient substance
for serving as a discussion basis and therefore has to pass the review cycle in the
same way as other work.

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories:

(1) Full research papers of 12 to 15 pages, describing original and unpublished
work. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.

(2) Short papers of 6 to 8 pages reporting on original and unpublished work
in progress or system descriptions. Simultaneous submission to another venue
is not allowed.

(3) Full research papers up to 15 pages reporting on interesting and relevant
work that has been published (or accepted for publication) in the last
18 months.

Each submission will be peer-reviewed. All submissions must be formatted
following Springer's LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

We request the submission of title and abstract prior the paper submission for
supporting the tight schedule of reviewing. The authors must submit their abstracts
and papers through the EUMAS 2014 Easychair submission site:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2014


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PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE

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EUMAS has formal conference proceedings published as a Springer LNCS/LNAI
(post-)proceedings volume (www.springer.com/lncs). Full research papers and
short papers describing original, unpublished work (categories 1 and 2) accepted
at EUMAS 2014 will be included in the proceedings.

After the conference, we also plan to invite authors of selected papers to extend
and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion in a journal special issue
(currently under negotiation). The submissions to that special issue will be subject
to another reviewing and selection process.


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IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstract submission deadline: September 26, 2014
Paper submission: September 29, 2014
Author acceptance notification: November 7, 2014
Camera-ready deadline: December 1, 2014
Conference: December 18-19, 2014

Authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to revise the camera ready
version of their paper(s) in order to incorporate feedback received upon the
presentation of their work during the conference.
The deadline for this revision is: January 14, 2015.

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PROGRAM CHAIR

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Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany


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LOCAL ORGANIZERS

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Jiri Vokrinek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Michal Jakob, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen
Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham
Fred Amblard, IRIT - University Toulouse 1 Capitole
Leila Amgoud, IRIT - CNRS
Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa
Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
Bernhard Bauer, Uni Augsburg
Ana L. C. Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Elizabeth Black, King's College London
Guido Boella, University of Torino
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne
Elise Bonzon, LIPADE - Université Paris Descartes
Vicent Botti, DSIC
Dídac Busquets, Imperial College London
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR
Amit Chopra, Lancaster University
Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University
Paul Davidsson, Malmö University
Tiago De Lima, University of Artois and CNRS
Marina De Vos, University of Bath
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University
Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, LIP6 - University of Pierre and Marie Curie
Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR
Klaus Fischer, DFKI GmbH
Nicola Gatti, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark
Davide Grossi, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology
Anthony Hunter, University College London
Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg
Tomas Klos, Delft University of Technology
Franziska Klügl, Örebro University
Joao Leite, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Brian Logan, University of Nottingham
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London
Dominique Longin, IRIT-CNRS
Emiliano Lorini, IRIT
Felipe Meneguzzi, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University
Frederic Moisan, Carnegie Mellon University
Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University
Jörg P. Müller, TU Clausthal
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC
Emma Norling, Manchester Metropolitan University
Peter Novák, Delft University of Technology
Ingrid Nunes, UFRGS
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna
Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos
Julian Padget, University of Bath
Wojciech Penczek, ICS PAS and Siedlce University
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University
Henry Prakken, University of Utrecht & University of Groningen
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University
R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna
Regis Riveret, Imperial College London
Valentin Robu, Heriot-Watt University
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna
Michael Rovatsos, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Jordi Sabater Mir, IIIA-CSIC
Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen
Michael Sonnenschein, University of Oldenburg
Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau
Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna
Nicolas Troquard, Laboratory for Applied Ontology
Luca Tummolini, ISTC-CNR
Paolo Turrini, Imperial College London
Karl Tuyls, University of Liverpool
Wiebe Van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg
Wamberto Vasconcelos, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
Laurent Vercouter, LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen
Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University
Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology
Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut


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CONTACT

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In case of questions about the program please do not hesitate to contact us.
For questions related to

-the program and submission process, please contact:

Nils Bulling (eumas2014@easychair.org)

-the organization, contact:

Jiří Vokřínek (jiri.vokrinek@fel.cvut.cz)
Michal Jakob (jakob@agents.fel.cvut.cz)