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17th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
EUMAS 2020
April 22-23, Thessaloniki, Greece
https://eumas2020.csd.auth.gr/eumas2020/
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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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 intelligent systems technologies in the 21st century. The aim of the EUMAS series is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in Europe at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed.

EUMAS 2020, the 17th instalment of the conference series, follows the tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014, Athens 2015, Valencia 2016, Evry 2017, Bergen 2018), and aims to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.

The conference aspires to be the primary European forum for researchers interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. EUMAS enables researchers to meet, present challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open and informal environment. To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2020 offers three submission types and formal proceedings. Also, we will be working hard to arrange for the post-publication of selected papers in the form of a special issue of a high-quality journal in the area.

EUMAS 2020 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org (http://www.euramas.org/)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Action and Planning
- Adaptation and Learning
- Agent Architectures
- Agent Programming Languages
- Agent Development Methodologies and Tools
- Agent-Based Simulations and Modeling
- Agent Organisations and Institutions
- Agent-oriented Software Engineering
- Agents and Complex Systems
- Applications of Multi-agent Systems
- Argumentation
- Automated negotiation
- Biologically inspired approaches
- Cognitive Models
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence
- Collective Intentionality
- Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination
- Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains
- Economic Models
- Electronic Commerce
- Ethical behaviour of multi-agent systems
- Formal Modelling
- Game-Theoretic Methods
- Logics for Multi-Agent Systems
- Logics for Strategic Reasoning
- Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-Agent Learning
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Negotiation
- Self-organisation
- Semantic Web Agents
- Socio-technical Systems
- Theories of Agency
- Trust and Reputation
- Verification
- Virtual Agents
- Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems

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SUBMISSIONS
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EUMAS 2020 welcomes both original, unpublished papers, and papers that have been recently published in a relevant conference or journal.

We offer three types of submissions:

(1) *Full original papers* of 12 to 15 pages, describing work that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or journal.

(2) *Short original papers* of 6 to 8 pages reporting on views, ambitions or work in progress that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under review by another conference or journal.

(3) *Published 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 should be formatted according to 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 to paper submission to support the tight schedule of reviewing. Authors must submit their abstracts and papers through the EUMAS 2020 Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2020.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative)
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Alberto Castellini, Universita di Verona
Alessandro Farinelli, Universita di Verona
Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Angelina Vidali, University of Athens, Greece
Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos, California State University, Fresno, USA
Charilaos Akasiadis, NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece
Davide Grossi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Edith Elkind, University of Oxford, UK
Emiliano Lorini, CNRS-IRIT, France
Emmanouil Rigas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Filippo Bistaffa, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Franziska Klügl, Örebro University, Sweden
George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece
Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
Jérôme Lang, LAMSADE, France
Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Maite Lopez-Sanchez, University of Barcelona, Spain
Marija Slavkovik, Univertsity of Bergen, Norway
Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michail Lagoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Nardine Osman, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain
Natalia Criado, King's College London, UK
Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Nils Bulling, Clausthal University of Technology and BCG Platinion, Germany
Nimrod Talmon, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy
Pavlos Moraitis, Université de Paris, France
Piotr Krysta, University of Liverpool, UK
Samir Aknine, Lyon 1 University, France
Sanjay Modgil, King's College London, UK
Sebastian Sardina, RMIT, Australia
Stergos Afantenos, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway


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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for title and abstract registration: January 28, 2020
- Deadline for papers submission: February 4, 2020
- Notification to authors: March 4, 2020
- Camera Ready Papers: March 11, 2020
- Conference: 22 & 23 April 2020

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e. before midnight on the respective date anywhere in the world.

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Nick Bassiliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete)

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LOCAL ORGANISERS
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Nick Bassiliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Kalliopi Kravari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Emmanouil Rigas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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CONTACT DETAILS
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EUMAS Organising Committee : eumas2020@csd.auth.gr