[agents] Call for Papers: 10th International Workshop on Engineering Multiagent Systems (EMAS) @ AAMAS 2022

[Amit Chopra]

Multiagent systems (MAS) -- systems composed of autonomous agents who
interact with each other -- are ideally suited to realizing modern software
applications. For instance, MAS ideas are well-suited to the IoT, and
applications that support engagements between humans and organizations in
domains such as business, health, and finance. Moreover, with the advent of
microservices, we see a clear shift in the software industry from
monolithic applications to applications constituted from autonomous,
interactive services -- in essence, agents.

The EMAS workshop is a forum for presenting and discussing original ideas
and work on software abstractions, methodologies, languages, and tools for
engineering loosely-coupled, adaptive, high-performance, and scalable MAS.

We welcome submissions on:
-    Traditional MAS engineering topics, including requirements and formal
specifications; architecture and modeling; verification and validation;
programming and languages; testing; maintenance and evolution.
-    MAS engineering for conventional AI techniques, including machine
learning-based abstractions.
-    MAS engineering for novel technologies, including blockchain, IoT,
microservices, serverless computing.
-    MAS engineering abstractions, including norms, protocols, BDI, and
goals.
-    MAS engineering for application domains including business, health,
finance, transportation.
-    MAS engineering for sociotechnical systems, including ethics, laws and
regulations, governance, accountability.
-    MAS engineering surveys.

As AAMAS 2022 will be a virtual event, EMAS 2022 will adopt a virtual
format similar to that used for EMAS 2021.

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Submissions
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All papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review
process is single-blind (authors should put their names and affiliations in
the submission). All papers should be in the LNCS formatting style.

The Easychair submission page can be found here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2022

Paper Types
-    Regular papers may be up to 16 pages.
-    Short papers may be up to 8 pages.
-    Tool, testbed, and demo papers may be up to 4 pages. Submissions
should highlight the capabilities of an implemented tool or MAS application
and provide a link to supplementary material that allows the reviewers to
evaluate the submission, such as a website or videos.

The LNCS formatting style is available via:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Student Paper Award

We encourage students to submit to EMAS. Papers where the main author is a
student should be identified as such and will be eligible for a best
student paper award.

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Publication
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The workshop will be foremost a discussion event: there will be ample time
to discuss new ideas rather than only presenting mature work. Papers with
enough potential to warrant publication in a journal will be identified
through the reviewing process, and authors will be invited to submit their
work for a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial
intelligence (hopefully to appear before EMAS 2023).

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Important dates
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Submission deadline March 4, 2022
Author notification April 8, 2022
Camera-ready deadline April 22, 2022
EMAS Workshop May 9-10, 2022

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Workshop Chairs
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Amit K. Chopra (Lancaster University)
Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal)
Rym Zalila-Wenkstern (University of Texas at Dallas)

https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2022/cfp.html
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