AAMAS 2016

The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a joint event comprising the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA), the 5th International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS), and the 9th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). 

Subsequent AAMAS conferences have been held in Melbourne, Australia (July 2003), New York City, NY, USA (July 2004), Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 2005), Hakodate, Japan (May 2006), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (May 2007), Estoril, Portugal (May 2008), Budapest, Hungary (May 2009), Toronto, Canada (May 2010), Taipei, Taiwan (May 2011), Valencia, Spain (June 2012), Minnesota, USA (May 2013), Paris, France (May 2014) and Istanbul, Turkey (May 2015). AAMAS 2016 will be held in May in Singapore. 

AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. 

AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

The conference solicits papers addressing original research on autonomous agents and their interaction. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Agent Theories and Models
  • Logic and Game Theory
  • Logics for agents and multi-agent systems
  • Formal models of agency
  • Belief-Desire-Intention theories and models
  • Cognitive models
  • Models of emotions 
• Communication and Argumentation
  • Commitments
  • Communication languages and protocols
  • Speech act theory
  • Multi-agent reasoning
  • Deductive, rule-based and logic-based argumentation
  • Argumentation-based dialogue and protocols 
• Agent Cooperation
  • Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
  • Collective intelligence
  • Distributed problem solving
  • Teamwork, team formation, teamwork analysis
  • Coalition formation (non-strategic)
  • Human-robot/agent interaction
  • Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
  • Multi-robot systems 
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Ontologies for agents
  • Reasoning in agent-based systems
  • Single and multi-agent planning and scheduling
  • Trust and reputation 
• Agent Societies and Societal issues
  • Organizations and institutions
  • Socio-technical systems
  • Normative systems
  • Values in MAS (privacy, safety, security, transparency,…)
  • Monitoring agent societies
  • Architectures for social reasoning
  • Trust and reputation
  • Value-sensitive design of multi-agent systems
  • Policy, regulation and legislation 
• Humans and Agents
  • Human-robot/agent interaction
  • Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
  • Agents competing against humans
  • Agent-based analysis of human interactions
  • Agents for improving human cooperative activities 
• Learning and adaptation
  • Reward structures for learning
  • Evolutionary algorithms
  • Co-evolutionary algorithms
  • Multiagent learning
  • Learning agent capabilities (agent models, communication, observation)
  • Learning agent-to-agent interactions (negotiation, trust, coordination) 
• Agents & Mainstream Computing
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Mobile agents
  • Autonomic computing
  • P2P, web services, grid computing, ... 
• Agent-based simulation
  • Social simulation
  • Simulation techniques tools and platforms
  • Complex systems
  • Validation of simulation systems
  • Modelling for agent based simulation
  • Interactive simulation
  • Emergent behaviour
  • Analysis of agent based simulations 
• Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • Modelling and specification languages
  • Programming languages and frameworks for agents and multi-agent systems
  • Development techniques, tools, and platforms
  • Methodologies for agent-based systems
  • Verification, fault tolerance and resilience of multi-agent systems 
• Verification and validation of agent-based systems
  • Testing of agent-based systems, including model based testing
  • Verification of agent-based systems, including model checking
  • Synthesis of agent-based systems
• Systems and organization
  • Autonomic computing
  • Complex systems
  • Self-organization
  • Novel agent and multiagent applications 
• Economic paradigms
  • Auctions and mechanism design
  • Bargaining and negotiation
  • Behavioral game theory
  • Cooperative games: theory & analysis
  • Cooperative games: computation
  • Noncooperative games: theory & analysis
  • Noncooperative games: computation
  • Social choice theory
  • Game theory for practical applications