AAMAS 2008

 
About AAMAS
AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, and the International Conference on Multiagent Systems. 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 multiagent systems. AAMAS 2008 is the seventh conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences in Bologna , Italy (2002), Melbourne , Australia (2003), New York , USA (2004), Utrecht , The Netherlands (2005), Hakodate , Japan (2006), and Honolulu , Hawai'i (2007). AAMAS 2008 will be held at the Cascais Miragem, Estoril , Portugal . AAMAS 2008 is presented in cooperation with the ACM and AAAI.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent-based system development:
  • Agent-oriented software engineering
  • Agent development environments
  • Agent languages
  • Case studies and implemented systems
  • P2P, web services, grid computing 
• Learning:
  • Learning (single and multi-agent)
  • Computational architectures for learning
  • Evolution, adaptation
• Agent Reasoning:
  • Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
  • Planning (single and mult-agent)
  • Cognitive models
  • Ontological reasoning 
• Agent Cooperation:
  • Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
  • Distributed problem solving
  • Biologically-inspired methods
• Agent theories, Models and Architectures:
  • Formal models of agency
  • Modeling other agents and self
  • BDI, speech act theory
  • Reactive vs deliberative
  • Logic-based methods
  • Bounded rationality
• Agent societies and Societal issues:
  • Artificial social systems
  • Trust and reputation
  • Social and organizational structure
  • Privacy, safety and security
  • Ethical and legal issues
• Agent communication:
  • Communication languages
  • Communication protocols
  • Agent commitments
• Economic paradigms:
  • Electronic markets and institutions
  • Economically-motivated agents
  • Game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
  • Social choice theory, voting protocols
  • Auction and mechanism design
  • Argumentation, negotiation and bargaining
• Agent-based simulations:
  • Emergent behaviour
  • Simulation-specific issues