MATES 2016

The MATES conference series aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. MATES 2016 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award. The proceedings are published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The conference series  is ERA/CORE ranked B.

• Multiagent platform and tools
• Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of multiagent systems
• Agent communication languages
• Autonomous robots and robot teams
• Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations
• Multiagent systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation
• Adaptive agents and multiagent learning
• Multiagent planning and scheduling
• Agent-based information retrieval
• Agents and P2P computing
• Agent-based service coordination (discovery, composition, negotiation, execution)
• Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications
• Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling
• Hybrid human and agent societies
• Semantic Web (services) and agents
• Agents for the Social Web
• Agents for the Internet of Services
• Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing
• Agents for cloud computing
• Mobile agents
• Standards fo agents and multiagent systems
• Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy).