Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are becoming more decentralized, with components that represent autonomous 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 conceptualizing, building, and governing such systems. It offers abstractions 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 growing research field of Computer Science, multiagent systems today remains a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research.
| Submission of abstracts: | 6th of May, 2016 |
| Submission of papers: | 8th of May, 2016 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 15th of June, 2016 |
| Camera-ready version: | 30th of June, 2016 |
| Conference | 22th - 26th of August, 2016 |
The PRIMA 2016 Program Committee invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work strongly relevant to multiagent systems, including reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate 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 another with International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.
Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prima2016.
For the MAIN track, please remember to check, under the TOPICS section,
the box "Social-Science Track".
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: