Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing distributed computing systems and networks through monitoring, communication, consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As a result, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated the capability to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and other social metaphors like 'trust', 'game' and 'institution', not only to address real-world problems in a human-like way but also to transcend human performance. This has had a transformative impact in many application domains, particularly in e-commerce, and also in planning, logistics, manufacturing, robotics, decision support, transportation, entertainment, emergency relief & disaster management, and data mining & analytics.

The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2017) invites submissions of original, unpublished, theoretical and applied work on any such topic, and encourages reports on the development of prototype and deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities.

For more information about the PRIMA series of conferences, please visit the Steering Committee's webpage: www.prima-conference.org

• Logic and Reasoning
  • Logics of agency
  • Logics of multiagent systems
  • Norms
  • Argumentation
  • Computational Game Theory
  • Uncertainty in Agent Systems
  • Agent and Multi-Agent Learning

• Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  • Interaction protocols
  • Commitments
  • Institutions and Organizations
  • Normative Systems
  • Formal Specification and Verification
  • Agent Programming Languages
  • Middleware and Platforms
  • Testing, debugging, and evolution
  • Deployed System Case Studies

• Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
  • Simulation Languages and Platforms
  • Artificial Societies
  • Virtual Environments
  • Emergent Behavior
  • Modeling System Dynamics
  • Application Case Studies

• Collaboration & Coordination
  • Planning
  • Distributed Problem Solving
  • Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
  • Teamwork
  • Coalition Formation
  • Negotiation
  • Auctions and Mechanism Design
  • Trust and Reputation
  • Computational Voting Theory

• Human-Agent Interaction
  • Adaptive Personal Assistants
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Virtual Characters
  • Multimodal User Interfaces
  • Mobile Agents
  • Human-Robot Interaction

• Decentralized Paradigms
  • Grid Computing
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Robotics and Multirobot Systems
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Social Computing
  • Internet of Things

• Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems
  • Healthcare
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Transport and Logistics
  • Emergency and Disaster Management
  • Energy and Utilities Management
  • Sustainability and Resource Management
  • Games and Entertainment
  • e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning
  • Smart Cities
  • Financial markets
  • Legal applications