The idea of the multi-agent system includes cooperation between autonomous software agents, located in the certain environment to complete a given task. Each of agents does not have all of the information needed to complete the task on his own, so that he must communicate with the other agents to find a solution. Distribution of the tasks to the numerous agents is very convenient in the modern computer systems architectures due to the fact that many communication protocols have been developed since the first works in the domain of the multi-agent systems had appeared.

Previous research proved that the multi-agent systems can be successfully applied in many significant areas of nowadays life. Many of them require special constrained and multi-objective optimization techniques either for agent training or for decision making purposes. Special session topics of interest include applications of multi-agent systems and/or optimization techniques for the problems of:

- Constrained and multi-objective numerical optimization
- Decision making processes
- Vehicle routing and path-finding
- Network design
- Security in the computer systems
- Complex system management
- Emergency planning
- Urban infrastructure systems
- Knowledge based systems
- Smart vision and image processing
- Other related topics

Paper submission:

Complete manuscripts must be electronically submitted through the conference website. Submitted manuscripts should be six (6) pages in IEEE two-column format, including figures, tables, and references. Please use the templates at Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings from the conference website to prepare your paper. All submissions MUST be in PDF format.