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*Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2016)*
August 22‐26, 2016, Phuket, Thailand
URL: http://prima2016.di.unito.it

Co‐located with PRICAI 2016
(Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)


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*Key Dates* ! ! ! N E W ! ! ! ONE WEEK EXTENSION ! ! !
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Abstract submission deadline: 6 May 2016 !! NEW !!
Full paper submission deadline: 8 May 2016 !! NEW !!
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2016
Camera‐ready version: 30 June 2016

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Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of
functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are be‐
coming more decentralized, with components that represent autono‐
mous entities who must communicate among themselves to achieve
their goals. Examples of such systems range from healthcare and
emergency relief and disaster management to e‐business and smarts
grids. A multiagent worldview is crucial to properly conceptual‐
izing, building, and governing such systems. It offers abstrac‐
tions such as intelligent agent, protocol, norm, organization,
trust, incentive, and so on, and is rooted in solid computational
and software engineering foundations. As a large but still grow‐
ing research field of Computer Science, multiagent systems today
remains a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research.

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*Submission - main track and special track*
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The PRIMA 2016 Program Committee invites submissions of original,
unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to
multiagent systems, including reports on the development of pro‐
totype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demon‐
strate novel agent system capabilities. An indicative list of
topics is provided below. For 2016, there will be Social Science
special track that will be handled by Michael Mäs (University of
Groningen). Accepted papers of this track will be offered a fast‐
track in JASSS.

Papers should be at most 16 pages in length in the Springer LNCS
format. All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNAI
series. A select number of papers will also be invited to submit
an extended version to a fast track of the Journal of Autonomous
Agents and Multi‐Agent Systems and ACM TAAS. There will be also
be two special issues: one with Fundamenta Informaticae and an‐
other with International Journal of Agent‐Oriented Software Engi‐
neering.

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*Invited speakers*
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We are proud to have as invited speakers:

- Prof. Toru Ishida (Kyoto University);
- Prof. Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal);
- Prof. Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology),
joint speech for both PRIMA and PRICAI.

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*Topics of interest (not limited to the following)*
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* Logic and Reasoning
- Logics of agency
- Logics of multiagent systems
- Norms
- Argumentation
- Computational Game Theory
- Uncertainty in Agent Systems
- Agent and Multi-Agent Learning

* Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
- Interaction protocols
- Commitments
- Institutions and Organizations
- Normative Systems
- Formal Specification and Verification
- Agent Programming Languages
- Middleware and Platforms
- Testing, debugging, and evolution
- Deployed System Case Studies

* Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
- Simulation Languages and Platforms
- Artificial Societies
- Virtual Environments
- Emergent Behavior
- Modeling System Dynamics
- Application Case Studies

* Collaboration & Coordination
- Planning
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
- Teamwork
- Coalition Formation
- Negotiation
- Auctions and Mechanism Design
- Trust and Reputation
- Computational Voting Theory

* Human-Agent Interaction
- Adaptive Personal Assistants
- Embodied Conversational Agents
- Virtual Characters
- Multimodal User Interfaces
- Mobile Agents
- Human-Robot Interaction

* Decentralized Paradigms
- Grid Computing
- Service-Oriented Computing
- Cybersecurity
- Robotics and Multirobot Systems
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Social Computing
- Internet of Things

* Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems
- Healthcare
- Autonomous Systems
- Transport and Logistics
- Emergency and Disaster Management
- Energy and Utilities Management
- Sustainability and Resource Management
- Games and Entertainment
- e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning
- Smart Cities
- Financial markets
- Legal applications

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*General Chairs*
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Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna)

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*Program Chairs*
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino)
Amit K. Chopra (Lancaster University)
Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University)