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================================== 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ================================== The 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA2009). Nagoya, Japan Dec 14-16, 2009 http://www.prima2009.org/

======================================================= INTRODUCTION ======================================================= PRIMA is the leading scientific conference for research on intelligent agent systems and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference endeavors to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and industry leaders, active and interested in agents and multi-agent systems, their practices and related areas. The conference is specifically focused on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed agent systems. The conference offers an exceptional opportunity for presentation of original work, technological advances, practical problems and concerns of the research community. PRIMA2009 will build on the success of its predecessor workshops and conferences held in Hanoi, Bangkok, Guilin, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Kyoto, and Singapore. Since 2007, due to the need for an additional high-quality forum for international researchers and practitioners to meet and share their work, the meeting has been expanded from a workshop to a full-fledged conference. Agent computing and technology is an exciting, emerging paradigm expected to play a key role in many society-changing practices from disaster response to manufacturing to agriculture. Agent and multi-agent researchers are focused on building working systems that bring together a broad range of technical areas from market theory to software engineering to user interfaces. Agent systems are expected to operate in real-world environments, with all the challenges complex environments present. PRIMA particularly encourages reports on development of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems and experiments that demonstrate the capability of agents to handle real-world challenges. Papers addressing methodological or theoretical aspects or particular aspects of agent development are also encouraged. A broad range of topics are of interest but all papers should clearly identify how the contribution brings the promise of practical multi-agent systems closer and identify their scientific and/or technical contributions to the PRIMA community. The PRIMA demonstration session encourages demonstrations on practice of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems. The PRIMA demonstration session will be held as a part of the main conference. The goal of the PRIMA demonstrations is to give participants an opportunity to present the functionality of their systems, tools and simulations. Authors of accepted papers to the main conference or the industrial track with a demonstrable system are strongly encouraged to apply. For the first time PRIMA is giving authors an option to present their accepted papers in an interactive session, rather than as a formal oral presentation. In this interactive session, authors can take time to show their work either electronically or as a poster and discuss their work in depth with conference attendees. The interactive session is separate from the demonstration session and available to any author having a full paper accepted to the conference. The aim is to give authors the opportunity to present their work in the most compelling way, to best share the results of their research. Authors can choose a presentation type, oral presentation or interactive presentation when submitting their papers. Regardless of the presentation type, high-quality papers will not be distinguishable in the proceedings and will be cited identically. The conference will also feature a doctoral mentoring program, which is focused on supporting the doctoral students with their research by providing them peer support. Senior and distinguished researchers attending the conference are expected to be available for interaction with the young and promising researchers. As with previous PRIMA events, there will be tutorials covering a range of important topics. A special industry track will showcase progress in the use of real agent systems in important environments. The conference will be located in Nagoya, at the center of Japan (West of Tokyo, 2 hours, E of Osaka, 1.5 hours, and E of Kyoto 1 hours by express train). Nagoya has a castle originally built by the first Tokugawa shogun, as well as one of Japan's most important Shinto shrines, Atsuta shrine. The conference site, Nagoya Congress Center, is one of the most sophisticated and beautiful congress sites in Japan.

======================================================= SPECIAL MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSION FORMAT ======================================================= For some multiagent systems, especially those that aim for broad, useful functionality, it can be challenging to convey the research contributions of the world compellingly in a traditional paper format. In recognition of this, PRIMA’09, in addition to regular paper submissions, encourages multimedia (non-paper) electronic submissions of technical contributions. This is because some valuable researches are difficult to be summarized as a traditional paper format. For example, Game theory researches can be summarized in a paper format very well. On the other hand, in particular, in terms of real dynamic world robotics, a video or a power point file has much information and impacts. Also, in terms of programming languages, like a ruby-on-rails video which shows 10-minutes-website creation, it is very impressive to show it in a video format and source codes. These submissions can be in whatever electronic format best conveys the research contributions of the work, from Powerpoint presentations, to videos, to working code to websites. These submissions will be reviewed by an experienced group of Multiagent researchers and be provisionally accepted or rejected. If accepted, authors are required to submit a “traditional” paper via the normal submission process. These provisionally accepted papers will be reviewed and then treated like journal papers “accepted with revisions” – authors must make changes as suggested by the reviewers and camera ready papers will be checked to ensure that appropriate changes have been made and the paper meets high quality standards. Papers accepted via this submission process will be indistinguishable from “normal” papers in the proceedings. In addition, the electronic submission will be made available to conference participants via DVD. The aim of this novel process is to ensure that high-quality Multiagent research is shared with the community, even in cases where a traditional paper format might not highlight contributions of the work. Of specific interest under this submission process are contributions such as: - Agent based simulation where the space in a paper constrains the large amount of interesting data that might be generated. - Tools for building agents or multi-agent systems - Intelligent, interactive agent-based systems or interfaces, where the interesting functionality cannot be easily explained in a text format - Complex, interesting multi-agent behavior that is best shown in a video format. - Robotics, humanoids, or intelligent vehicles. - Enterprise systems based on agents or multi-agent systems - Web-based agent systems or multi-agent systems Notice that the criteria for accepting work through this submission process are still the research aspects of the work. Well engineered, but not novel or research oriented systems are not encouraged. The aim is specifically and narrowly to provide a mechanism to get interesting research shared with the community even when its merit is difficult to convey in a traditional paper format.

======================================================= TOPICS OF INTEREST: ======================================================= Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based system development: Agent-oriented software engineering Agent development environments Agent languages Case studies and implemented systems

WWW and Semantic Web Agents Web-based agents Ontology agents Semantic Web agents Internet Bots Human Agent Interaction

Agent-based simulations: Emergent behavior Simulation-specific issues Learning: Learning (single and multi-agent) Computational architectures for learning Evolution, adaptation

Agent Reasoning: Reasoning (single and multi-agent) Planning (single and multi-agent) Cognitive models Ontological reasoning

Interface Agents: Practices of Interface Agents Interface Multi-Agents Virtual Agents Collaborative Interface Agents Autonomous Interface Agents

Agent societies and social networks: Artificial social systems Trust and reputation Social and organizational structure Privacy, safety and security Ethical and legal issues

Agent communication: Communication languages Communication protocols Agent commitments Network structures and analysis

Agent Cooperation and Negotiation: Teamwork Cooperation Coalition formation Coordination Distributed problem solving Formal models for modeling other agents and self Argumentation Negotiation and Bargaining Persuasion

Agent Systems: Software agents Mobile agents Agent-Based Assistants Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications Socially Situated Planning Software and Pervasive Agents

Real-world Robotics: Coordination in multi-robot systems Modeling and analysis of multi-robot systems Tools that are relevant for multi-robot studies Applications of multi-robot systems to real-world problems

Other Related Areas: Collective intelligence Service science P2P, Grid computing Financial markets and algorithm trades Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence Programming Languages Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems Perceptive Animated Interfaces Scalability Tools and Standards Ubiquitous Software Services Virtual Humans

The conference also welcomes relevant papers from related fields as long as the link is made to relevance and work within the agent community.

======================================================= Demonstration Session: ======================================================= The PRIMA demonstration session encourages demonstrations on practice of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems. The PRIMA demonstration session will be held as a part of the main conference. The goal of the PRIMA demonstrations is to give participants an opportunity to present their latest practices on agent and multiagent systems. Authors of accepted papers to the main conference or the industrial track with a demonstrable system are strongly encouraged to apply.

======================================================= Interactive Session: ======================================================= The PRIMA interactive session is giving authors an option to present their accepted papers in an interactive session, rather than as a formal oral presentation. In this interactive session, authors can take time to show their work either electronically or as a poster and discuss their work in depth with conference attendees. The interactive session is separate from the demonstration session and available to any author having a full paper accepted to the conference. The aim is to give authors the opportunity to present their work in the most compelling way, to best share the results of their research. Authors can choose a presentation type, oral presentation or interactive presentation when submitting their papers. Regardless of the presentation type, high-quality papers will not be distinguishable in the proceedings and be will be cited identically.

======================================================= Industrial Practices Session (Industrial Track) : ======================================================= The PRIMA Conference Industry Track is dedicated to collect, present and discuss contributions reporting on industrial and commercial deployment of software agent technologies and practices. If you are working to commercialize agent technologies, or developing real-world practices based on the agent technologies, you are invited to submit papers on your current works.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Experiences gained from commercialization attempts Investment analysis of agent technologies Insights into markets appropriate for agent technologies Commercial application of agents Application case studies Practices on agent-based e-government Practices on agent-based automation and logistics Practices on agent-based telecommunication, media and entertainment Practices on agent-based healthcare systems Practices on agent-based smart living, ambient intelligence. Practices on biotechnology Practices on monitoring and maintenance, and surveillance Practices on managing large scale infrastructures Practices on software development Other practices of agents, such as in the non-profit sector Barriers to adoption or adoption facilitators

======================================================= PUBLICATION: ======================================================= All accepted papers are going to be published from IEEE (approval pending).

======================================================= IMPORTANT DATES: ======================================================= Multimedia format submissions due: July 3rd, 2009(Fri) Multimedia format submissions author notification: July 17th, 2009 (Fri) Papers due: July 31st, 2009 (Fri) Author notification: September 15th, 2009 (Tue) Camera-ready papers due: September 30th, 2009 (Wed) Early registration deadline: October 16th, 2009 (Fri) Registration deadline: December 1, 2009 (Tue) Conference dates: December 14 - 16, 2009 (Mon - Wed)

======================================================= SPECIAL EVENTS: ======================================================= - Doctoral Mentoring Session - Agent School - RoboCup

======================================================= ORGANIZATION: ======================================================= General Chairs: Jung-Jin Yang (Catholic Univ. of Korea, Korea), Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Program Chairs: Takayuki Ito (NIT/MIT, Japan/US), Zhi JIN (Peking Univ., China), Paul Scerri (CMU, US) Industry Track Program Chairs: Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka Univ., Japan), Minjie Zhang (U. Wollongong, Australia) Publicity Cochairs: Shigeo Matsubara (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu (New Zealand) Sponsorship Chairs: Nirmit V Desai (IBM, India), Akihiko Ohusuga (Japan) Tutorial / Interactive session Chair: Tsunenori Mine (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Buy The Duy (Vietnam) Workshop Chair: Quan Bai (CSIRO, Australia) Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka Univ., Japan) Financial Chair: Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata Univ., Japan) Valentin Robu (Univ. Southampton, England) Publications Chair: Takahiro Uchiya (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Gita Sukthankar (U. Florida, US) Agent School & Doctoral Mentoring Track Chair: Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Jane Hsu (Taiwan) Local Arrangement Chair: Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Shohey Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Agent Event Chair: (RobuCup) Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan) Xiaoping Chen, (USTC, China) Oliver Obst, (CSIRO, Australia)

Advisory committee members: Toru Ishida (Japan), Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan), Chengqi Zhang (Australia), Muninder P. Singh (US), Alexis Drogoul (France), Von Won Soo (Taiwan), R. Sadananda (Thailand)