AAMAS 2006

AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. (See The AAMAS conference for more information.) AAMAS-06 is the fifth conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences at Bologna, Italy (2002), Melbourne, Australia (2003), New York City, USA (2004), and Utrecht, the Netherlands (2005). AAMAS-06 will be held at the Future University-Hakodate, Japan. Hakodate is a beautiful city located at the southern end of Japan's northern island, Hokkaido.
In addition to conventional conference papers, AAMAS-05 also welcomes the submission of papers that focus on implemented systems, software, or robot prototypes. These papers require a demonstration of the prototype at the conference and should include a detailed project or system description specifying the hardware and software features and requirements.

Topics of interest to AAMAS-06 include, but are not restricted to:

• agent and multi-agent architectures
• agent communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols
• agent programming languages
• agent standardizations in industry and commerce
• agents and adjustable autonomy
• agents and ambient intelligence
• agents and cognitive models
• agents and novel computing paradigms (e.g. autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing)
• agents, web services and semantic web
• agent-based simulation and modeling
• agent-mediated electronic commerce and trading agents
• agent-oriented software engineering and agent-oriented methodologies
• applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
• argumentation in agent systems
• artificial social systems
• auctions and electronic markets
• autonomous robots and robot teams
• coalition formation and teamwork
• collective and emergent agent behavior
• computational complexity in agent systems
• constraint processing in agent systems
• conventions, commitments, norms, social laws
• conversation and dialog in agent systems
• cooperative distributed problem solving in agent systems
• cooperation and coordination among agents
• electronic institutions
• formal models of agency
• frameworks, infrastructures and environments for agent systems
• game theoretic foundations of agent systems
• humanoid and sociable robots
• information agents, brokering and matchmaking
• legal issues raised by autonomous agents
• logics for agent systems
• mobile agents
• (multi-)agent evolution, adaptation and learning
• (multi-)agent planning
• negotiation and conflict handling in agent systems
• ontologies and agent systems
• perception, action and planning in agents
• performance evaluation of agent systems
• privacy, safety and security in agent systems
• scalability, robustness and dependability of agent systems
• social choice mechanisms
• social and organizational structures of agent systems
• specification languages for agent systems
• synthetic, embodied, emotional and believable agents
• task and resource allocation in agent systems
• computational autonomy
• trust and reputation in agent systems
• verification and validation of agent systems
• other