CALL FOR PAPERS
DOCTORAL TRACK
at

5th International KES Symposium

AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES
AND APPLICATIONS

KES AMSTA 2011
Manchester, UK
29 June - 1 July 2011

1. Introduction

   An integral part of the KES-AMSTA-11 will be the Doctoral Track organized with the aim to publish students' research in the filed of agents and multi-agents systems. The session will offer students the opportunity to discuss and to exchange the experience both the work in progress and almost finished dissertations. Best student paper of the KES-AMSTA-11 Doctoral Track will be selected and awarded.

2. Information for authors

   All authors of the proposal must be PH.D. students or their advisors. The papers will be reviewed by KES-AMSTA-11 International Program Committee. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the KES-AMSTA-11 and will be included in the symposium proceedings. The papers should present original and unpublished research. The symposium proceedings are planned to be published and distributed by Springer-Verlag in series LNCS/LNAI. Submitted papers for Doctoral Track should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should be limited to 10 pages. All submissions must be sent electronically using the PROSE software review system.

3. Topics of interest
   
   
   I. Agent Systems
   • Formal models of agency
   • Learning, evolution, and adaptation
   • Perception and action
   • Architectures: reactive and deliberative (e.g., based on BDI, Bayesian networks, or logic)
   • Autonomous or humanoid robots
   • Autonomy feature
   • Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
   • Embodied and believable agents
     
     II. Multi-agent Systems
   • Cooperative distributed problem solving
   • Emergent behavior
   • Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
   • Modeling other agents and self
   • Multi-agent planning
   • Multi-agent learning
   • Societal aspects
   • Social robots and robot teams
   • Argumentation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
   • Brokering and matchmaking
   • Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations
     
     III. Tools and Techniques for MAS
   • Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks
   • Computational complexity
   • Mobile agents
   • Ontologies
   • Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability Verification and validation (e.g., model checking)
     
     IV. Applications and Environments
   • Electronic markets and institutions
   • E-business agents
   • Pervasive computing
   • Privacy, safety, and security
   • Simulation systems
   • Web services and service-oriented computing
   • Artificial social systems
   • Autonomic computing
   • Case studies and reports on deployments
   • Computational infrastructures (e.g., Grid and P2P)


4. Organization Committee
   
   
   KES-AMSTA-11 is part of the KES International Conference Series, Chair: N.T. Nguyen
   which is a sub-series of KES International Conference Series, Chairs: L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett
   General Co-Chairs: J.D.O'Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, N.T.Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, L.C.Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
   Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK
   Program Co-Chairs: Z. Bandar, Manchester Metropolitan University, K Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dariusz Krol Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
   Special Session Chair: I.Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
   


5. Important dates
   
   Deadline for paper submission:    Extended to: 31 Jan. 2011
   Notification of acceptance: 18 Feb. 2011
   Upload of final papers to be received: 28 Feb. 2011
   Upload of publication files (PDF file and DOC or TEX files): 11 Mar. 2011
   
   KES-AMSTA-11 Symposium: 29 June - 1 July 2011



6. Contact details
   
   Email:
   exec@kesinternational.org
   Postal Address:
   KES International
   PO Box 2115, Shoreham-by-sea, BN43 9AF
   United Kingdom
   
   
   
   More details is available at the KES-AMSTA-11 website.