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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 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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TOPICS
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Special Topic of the 2021 edition: "Social Good"



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




COMMITTEE
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Advisory Board

Bo An - Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Paul Davidsson - Malmö University (Sweden)
Keith Decker - University of Delaware (USA)
Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Tom Holvoet - KU Leuven (Belgium)
Toru Ishida - Kyoto University (Japan)
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan)
Eric Matson - Purdue Polytechnic Insitute (United States)
Jörg P. Müller - Technische Universität Claustha (Germany)
Michal Pechoucek - Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Franco Zambonelli - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)


Program Committee

Frank Dignum - Umeå University (Sweden)


Organising Committee Chairs

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




INVITED SPEAKERS
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Vicente Botti, Director of VRAIN (Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence). Technical University of Valencia (Spain)

Yves Demazeau, Senior Researcher at CNRS Grenoble (France)

Iyad Rahwan, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany)






SPECIAL ISSUES
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∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (ISSN 1551-0018, JCR: 1.285(Q4)

∎ Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2021 and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in 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)





AWARDS
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MDPI Sensors & Systems Best Paper Award prize of 400 CHF



MDPI Electronics Best Paper Award prize of 300 CHF






FORMAT
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All papers must be formatted according to the LNCS-LNAI/CCIS template, with a maximum length of 12 pages (4 pages in Demonstrations), including figures and references:
Microsoft word format.
Latex Format (also available in Overleaft).




SUBMISSION
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All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2021 conference management system.




PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.


*** Indexing: The books of LNAI and CCIS as part of LNCS series of Springer are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH. ****





DEMONSTRATIONS - IBM Award
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PAAMS'21 includes a special track for demonstrations. Demonstrations are intended to exhibit practical applications of multi-agent systems and will be a very useful tool in order to complement the regular program with practical examples of particular interest in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

The author/s must write a paper formatted according to the LNCS-LNAI template, with a maximum length of 4 pages and following the next structure: Introduction, Main purpose, Demonstration, Conclusions and References.

All accepted demonstrations will be included in PAAMS Proceedings as a paper, published in Springer.

During PAAMS, authors will have to show their demonstrations. The organization will provide a printed poster of the article, WIFI connection and space on a shared table with other competitors.

The best demo in PAAMS 2021 will be awarded with a 2000€ price, given by IBM.

More information: www.paams.net/demonstrations-track





IMPORTANT DATES
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Main Track - Paper submission deadline: --7th May, 2021-- --14th May, 2021-- 21st May, 2021
Workshops - Paper submission deadline: --14th May, 2021-- 28th May, 2021
Demonstrations - Paper submission deadline: --24th May, 2021-- 11th June, 2021
Notification of acceptance: --7th June, 2021-- 18th June, 2021
Camera-Ready papers due: --28th June, 2021-- 2nd July, 2021
Conference Celebration: 6th-8th October, 2021




ORGANIZERS
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Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Malmö University (Sweden)

University of Delaware (USA)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

KU Leuven (Belgium)

Kyoto University (Japan)

Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan)

Purdue University (United States)

Technische Universität Claustha (Germany)

Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Umeå University (Sweden)

University of Salamanca (Spain)





SPONSORS
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IBM
INDRA




SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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AEPIA
APPIA