ITMAS 2012

ITMAS aims at bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design and implementation of infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems. When developing applications based on Multiagent Systems, developers and users demand infrastructures and tools which support essential features in Multiagent Systems (such as agent organizations, mobility, etc.) and facilitate the system design, management, execution and evaluation. Agent infrastructures are usually built using other technologies such as grid systems, service-oriented architectures, P2P networks, etc. In this sense, the integration and interoperability of such technologies in Multiagent Systems is also a challenging issue in the area of both tools and infrastructures for Multiagent Systems. A long term goal is the industrial development of infrastructures for building highly scalable applications comprising pre-existing agents that must be organized or orchestrated.

In order for Multiagent Systems to be included in real domains such as media and Internet, logistics, e-commerce and health care, infrastructures and tools for Multiagent Systems should provide efficiency, scalability, security, management, monitorization and other features related to building real applications.

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Agent Infrastructures
• Agent Communication Technologies
• Interoperability
• Integration of technologies to support Multiagent Systems
• Efficiency and Scalability Evaluation
• Agent Infrastructure Benchmarks
• Security, Privacy and Identity Management in Multiagent Systems
• Secure Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems
• Infrastructures and tools supporting Social and Organizational Models
• Infrastructures and tools supporting Trust and Reputation Models
• Infrastructures and tools supporting Intelligent Virtual Environments
• Infrastructures and tools supporting Electronic Institutions
• Design, Management and Monitoring tools for Multiagent Systems
• Information Retrieval Tools for Multiagent Systems
• Semantic Web Tools for Multiagent Systems
• Mobile Agent Technologies
• Industry implementations of Multiagent Systems
• Experiences using Infrastructures and Tools for Multiagent Systems
• Infrastructures and Tools for Biomedical Multiagent Systems