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18th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
EUMAS 2021
June 28-29, Online (via Zoom or similar application)
http://biu-ai.com/EUMAS21
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for papers submission: February 28, 2021
- Notification to authors: April 28, 2021
- Camera-Ready Papers: May 28, 2021
- Conference: 28 & 29 June 2021
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e.,
while it is still the respective date anywhere on Earth.

Submission instructions:
http://biu-ai.com/EUMAS21

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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In the past two decades, we have seen an enormous increase of interest in agent-based computing and multi-agent systems (MAS). This field is set to become one of the key intelligent systems technologies in the 21st century. The EUMAS series aims to provide the main forum for academics and practitioners in Europe to discuss current MAS research and applications.
EUMAS 2021, the 18th instalment of the conference series, follows the tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014, Athens 2015, Valencia 2016, Evry 2017, Bergen 2018, Thessaloniki 2020), and encourages and supports activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
The conference aspires to be the primary European forum for researchers interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. EUMAS enables researchers to meet, present challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open and informal environment. To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2021 offers three submission types and formal proceedings. Also, we will be working hard to arrange for the post-publication of selected papers in the form of a special issue of a high-quality journal in the area.

EUMAS 2021 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Action and Planning
- Adaptation and Learning
- Agent Architectures
- Agent Programming Languages
- Agent Development Methodologies and Tools
- Agent-Based Simulations and Modeling
- Agent Organizations and Institutions
- Agent-oriented Software Engineering
- Agents and Complex Systems
- Applications of Multi-agent Systems
- Argumentation
- Automated negotiation
- Biologically inspired approaches
- Cognitive Models
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence
- Collective Intentionality
- Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination
- Computational Social Choice
- Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains
- Economic Models
- Electronic Commerce
- Ethical behavior of multi-agent systems
- Formal Modelling
- Game-Theoretic Methods
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Logics for Multi-Agent Systems
- Logics for Strategic Reasoning
- Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-Agent Learning
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Negotiation
- Self-organization
- Semantic Web Agents
- Social Networks
- Socio-technical Systems
- Theories of Agency
- Trust and Reputation
- Verification
- Virtual Agents
- Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems

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SUBMISSIONS
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EUMAS 2021 welcomes original, unpublished papers. Papers submitted shall describe original work that has not been published or accepted for publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or journal (it might be on arXiv or a similar preprint server though).
NEW! Papers rejected from AAMAS, AAAI or IJCAI will be fast-tracked given that their original reviews and an authors’ cover letter (indicating all changes made) will be submitted. Extended abstracts from AAMAS also qualify for this fast track.
Each submission will be peer-reviewed in a doubly-blind fashion. All submissions should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format and contain at most 10 pages, plus any number of additional pages for bibliography and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix. For templates and instructions for authors, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors must submit their abstracts and papers through the EUMAS 2021 Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2021.
EUMAS 2021 accepted papers will be published by Springer in an LNCS volume. As such, they will be made available to several indexing services (including Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, CPCI, EI Engineering Index, and more).
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers.
Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. We urge the authors to follow these guidelines from the submission stage already.
Additional guidelines will be communicated after the conference to the authors of accepted papers for the preparation of the final versions to be included in the post-proceedings.

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Opportunity for a JAAMAS publication
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This year, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) will provide the opportunity for extended versions of the EUMAS-2021 best paper award winner (see below) and the EUMAS-2021 best paper award runner-up to be fast-tracked for the journal.

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Best Paper Award
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A Best Paper Award will be presented at the conference.

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Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Ariel Procaccia (Harvard)
Prof. Catholijn Jonker (TU Delft)

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Ariel Rosenfeld (Bar-Ilan University)
Nimrod Talmon (Ben-Gurion University)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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https://biu-ai.com/EUMAS21/

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CONTACT DETAILS
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EUMAS21 Organizing Committee : eumas2021@gmail.com