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. Right now, PAAMS is PAAMS is classified as B2 by CAPES Qualis CC-Events and C by CORE Ranking. 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.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission date: 28th January, 2019
Workshop deadline: 4th February, 2019
Demonstrations and doctoral consortium deadline: 11th March, 2019
Notification date: 11th March, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: 29th March, 2019
Conference dates: 26th-28th June, 2019


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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.

The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.


Submitting papers

All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 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 2019 Proceedings, published by Springer.

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.


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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


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COMMITTEES

Advisory Board

Bo An, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Paul Davidsson, Malmö Universit (Sweden)
Keith Decker, University of Delaware (USA)
Frank Dignum, Utrecht Universit (The Netherlands)
Toru Ishida, Kyoto Universit (Japan)
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technolog (Japan)
Jörg P. Müller, Technische Universität Claustha (Germany)
Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense de Madri (Spain)
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Pragu (Czech Republic)
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)


Program Committee

Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Eric Matso, Purdue Polytechnic Insitute (United States)


Organising Committee Chairs

Juan Manuel Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)

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INVITED SPEAKERS

V.S. Subrahmaniab, Dartmouth College - USA
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University - Japan


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DEMONSTRATIONS AWARDS

The best demo in PAAMS 2017 will be awarded with a 2000€ price, given by IBM


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WORKSHOPS

Our offer will guarantee the following:

Local support for installing and managing the reviewing site of the submissions.
12 pages per paper, published at SV LNCS / CCIS, if acceptance rate under 60%.
Synchonization with PAAMS agenda and coordinated deadlines for workshops.
Duration: X slots of 2 h each for up to 4 papers each, with maximum of 8 slots.
Standard equipment (videoprojector) and local support all along the workshop.
Attractive registration including softcover proceedings, 3 lunches, 2 dinners.
No registration at the workshop only since the main session is held at same time.
Possibility of workshop invited speaker but no direct support from PAAMS.
Suggestion to install aroundtabel at the end of the workshop for making summary.
We hope this offer will catch your attention. Should you be interested in submitting such a special session, please contact us (info@paams.net) with a proposal before 12th October, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the organizers by 26th October, 2018.


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SPECIALSESSIONS

PAAMS'19 Special Sessions will be a very useful tool in order to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics of particular interest in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Special Sessions that emphasize on multi-disciplinary and transversal aspects, as well as cutting-edge topics are especially encouraged and welcome. 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.

How to apply?
Prospective organizers of special sessions should submit proposals indicating:

Title of the proposed session.
Short biography of the organizer(s), with complete address for contact.
List of tentative papers (including titles, authors, and contact information of the corresponding author/s).
Special Sessions proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, the qualifications of the organizers and the authors of the papers proposed in the sessions, and the balance of the topics across the technical areas represented in Artificial Intelligence.

Before submitting your proposal, please take a look to the PAAMS 2019 accepted workshops (http://www.paams.net/open-calls/call-for-workshops) and accepted special sessions (http://www.paams.net/open-calls/call-for-special-sessions) to try to prevent content overlap.

Should you be interested in submiting such a special session, please contact us (info@paams.net) with a proporsal before 26th October, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the organizers by 2nd November, 2018.

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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.


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SPECIAL ISSUES

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in Special Section published in

- Neurocomputing (TENTATIVE) (JCR 2016 Neurocomputing: 3,317)
- ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database).
- Sensors (JCR 2016 Neurocomputing: 2,475)
- Electronics (JCR 2017 Electronics. 2.110)
- The research that receives an award for best paper on the topic of Data Fusion, will be sent to Information Fusion (ISSN: 1566-2535, JCR 2017: 6.639) and submitted for a quick review.
- Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems Journal (SJR 2017: 0.62, Q2).

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SPONSORS

IBM, Indra


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CONTACT

info@paams.net