[agents] The 25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024)

[Tim Baarslag]

Dear all,

Please find below the call for papers for the The 25th International 
Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) to 
be held in Kyoto, Japan, on November 18-22, 2024.

We look forward to seeing you in Kyoto!

Tim Baarslag
Publicity Chair
On behalf of the PRIMA 2024 Organizing Committee


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The 25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of 
Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024)
Dates: November 18-22nd, 2024
Venue: Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/prima-2024/home
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Call for Papers
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We invite you to submit your best work in the area of agents and 
multi-agent systems to PRIMA-2024, the 25th International Conference on 
Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, to be held in Kyoto in 
November 2024.

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Scope and Background
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Software systems are rapidly becoming more intelligent in the 
functionality they offer to users. They are also becoming more 
decentralized, with components that act autonomously and must 
communicate among themselves or with human users, to achieve their 
goals. Examples of such systems include those in healthcare, disaster 
management, e-business, and smart grids. A multi-agent perspective is 
crucial to the proper conceptualization, deployment, and governance of 
such systems. Rooted in solid computational and software engineering 
foundations, this perspective offers abstractions such as intelligent 
agents, protocols, norms, organizations, trust and incentives, among 
others. As a large, but still growing research field of Computer 
Science, multi-agent systems today remain a unique enabler of 
interdisciplinary research.

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Areas of Interest
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The conference areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Logic and Reasoning (e.g. Norms, Obligations, Deontic Logic, 
Argumentation)
- Agent and Multi-Agent Learning (e.g. Reinforcement Learning, 
Evolutionary approaches, Large Language Models)
- Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (e.g. Interaction Protocols, Formal 
Specification and Verification)
- Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (e.g. Artificial Societies, 
Virtual Environments, Emergent Behavior)
- Collaboration & Coordination (e.g. Planning, Teamwork, Negotiation)
- Algorithmic Game Theory (e.g. Auctions and Mechanism Design, 
Bargaining and Negotiation)
- Computational Social Choice (e.g. Voting, Fair Division, Resource 
Allocation)
- Human-Agent Interaction (e.g. Adaptive Personal Assistants, Affective 
Computing)
- Decentralized Paradigms (e.g. Cloud Computing, Big data, Cybersecurity)
- Ethics and Social Issues (e.g. Explainable AI, Multi-Agent Systems for 
Social Good)
- Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems (e.g. Healthcare, 
Transport and Logistics, Games and Entertainment, etc)

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Information for Authors
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PRIMA 2024 invites submissions of original, unpublished work strongly 
relevant to multi-agent systems. Apart from theoretical work, we 
encourage the submission of reports on the development of applications 
or prototypes of deployed agent systems, and of experiments that 
demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. In addition to this, we 
also encourage the submission of position and review papers that are of 
particular relevance to the multi-agent community.

The papers submitted can be up to 16 pages in length, including 
references, in the Springer LNCS format. All submitted papers must be in 
a form suitable for double-blind review. All papers will be reviewed by 
at least 2-3 experts in the area following a detailed review form that 
will assess the paper based on the significance and novelty of the idea, 
the technical description of the proposal, clarity and organization, the 
evaluation methodology, and any ethical considerations.

All accepted papers for the main track will be published in Springer's 
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRIMA2024/
Conference Dates: November, 18-22, 2024
Venue: Kyoto (Japan)
The conference will take place at Kyoto University.

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Important Dates
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- Abstract submission: July 5, 2024 (11:59 UTC-12)
- Submission deadline: July 10, 2024 (11:59 UTC-12)
- Notification: September 12, 2024
- Camera ready submission: September 25, 2024
- Conference dates: November 18-22, 2024

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Organizing Committee
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= General Chair =
Reyhan Aydogan (Ozyegin University, Turkiye and Delft University of 
Technology, The Netherlands)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Takayuki Ito (Kyoto University, Japan)

= Program Chair =
Ryuta Arisaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Victor Sanchez Anguix (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, UK)

= Local Arrangements Co-chairs =
Tokuro Matsuo (Advanced Institute of Industry and Technology, Japan)
Shiyao Ding (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jawad Haqbeen (Kyoto University, Japan)

= Publications Chair =
Sofia Sahab (Kyoto University, Japan)

= Workshop Chair =
Iván Marsá Maestre (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Amro Najjar (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg)

= Tutorial Chair =
Koichi Moriyama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)

= Publicity Chair =
Tim Baarslag (CWI, The Netherlands and Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

= Sponsorship Chair =
Yasser Mohammad (NEC Corporation, Japan)