The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA'18)


(IEEE approval pending)


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Conference Venue: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Conference Date: July 28-31, 2018
Conference Website: http://ica2018.crowdscience.org/
Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ica2018


Scope and Background:
Intelligent agents are software entities which can carry out some actions on behalf of clients with some degree of autonomy. Through sensing the status of environment, agents perform some operations based on some possessed knowledge in order to change or influence the environment towards their goals. A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a group or society of agents, and agents interact with others in the group cooperatively and/or competitively in order to reach their individual or common goals. In general, agents possess five common properties which are autonomy (some level of self-control), adaptivity (the ability to learn and improve performance with experience), reactivity (the ability to perceive the environment and to respond in a timely fashion to changes that occur), proactivity (the ability not only to act simply in response to their environment but also to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative) and sociability (the ability to interact, communicate and work with other agents). Research on agent techniques and MASs mainly focus on improving existing or invent innovative frameworks, models, mechanisms, approaches and algorithms to improve agents effectiveness and efficiency in those five aspects for advanced autonomous problem solving abilities in complex environments.


Topics:
We envision a future society where computational agents and humans (physical agents) are living, working and snuggling with each other. Harmonious collaboration among computational agents and humans are of importance in the next-generation society. ICA2018 will call for papers related to the following topics are not limited to:
- Decision making techniques
- Multi-agent communication and interaction protocols
- Negotiation and argumentation
- Game theory and auctions
- Social computing
- Cooperation, collaboration and coordination mechanisms
- Self-organization and self-adaptation
- Computational reasoning
- Machine learning
- Complex systems and system dynamics
- Collective intelligence
- Programming languages
- Internet of things, agents, and people
- Systems designs, development and implementation
- Human and multi-agent systems interaction
- Social science and humanities
- Ethical, legal, and social issues
- Future visions and grand challenges


Agent technique and multi-agent system are very important fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI). We believe that ICA2018 will attract attentions from not only AI researchers, but also domain experts and industrial investigators who are interested in the applications of AI techniques.




Submission:
We encourage submission in the CPS format. You can find the format requirements on IEEE CPS website:http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ . The format of the final manuscript should be no more than 6 pages for regular papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for poster papers in length. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ica2018. Authors must first register their own account by obtaining a password, and then follow the instructions.


All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation and/or a poster. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members or experts in the field. Multiple submission policy is applied for papers. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without the review. All accepted papers in the regular oral presentation/poster will appear in the Conference Proceedings to be published by CPS. They will be indexed by EI, SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP and Thomson ISI.


Important Dates:
- Deadline for paper submission: May 18, 2018
- Acceptance notification: June 15, 2018
- Deadline for early-bird registration: June 29, 2018
- Submission deadline for camera-ready: July 7, 2018
- ICA2018 conference: July 28-31, 2018




No-show policy:
The paper may be excluded from IEEE Xplore and the CSDL if the presentation is not made at the conference. Also, no-show papers are not recommended in the post-conference publications.


Organization:
Steering Committees:
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Chunyan Miao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Catholijn Jonker, TU Delft, Netherlands


General Co-Chairs:
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Chunyan Miao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ah-Hwee Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Program Co-Chairs:
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Di Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Han Yu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Local Organisation Co-Chairs:
Bo An, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Quan Bai, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Zhiqi Shen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Workshop Co-Chairs:
Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yuan Miao, Victoria University, Australia
Takanobu Otsuka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan


Publication Co-Chairs:
Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China
Shigeo Matsubara, Kyoto University, Japan
Qiong Wu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Publicity Co-Chairs:
Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Koichi Moriyama, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Fenghui Ren, University of Wollongong, Australia


Finance Co-Chairs:
Jane Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada
Liang Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore