SCOPE

The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence.

A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/.


CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. AGENTS
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE


AREA 1: AGENTS

Semantic Web
Multi-Agent Systems
Distributed Problem Solving
Agent Communication Languages
Agent Models and Architectures
Cooperation and Coordination
Conversational Agents
Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
Programming Environments and Languages
Task Planning and Execution
Autonomous Systems
Cognitive Robotics
Group Decision Making
Web Intelligence
Agent Platforms and Interoperability
SOA and Software Agents
Simulation
Economic Agent Models
Mobile Agents
Privacy, safety and security
Collective Intelligence
Physical Agents
Robot and Multi-robot Systems
Self Organizing Systems
Cloud Computing
Auctions and Markets
Agile Management

AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Intelligent User Interfaces
Bayesian Networks
Soft Computing
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Planning and Scheduling
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Uncertainty in AI
Model-Based Reasoning
Ontologies
Data Mining
Data Science
Constraint Satisfaction
State Space Search
Case-Based Reasoning
Cognitive Systems
Reactive AI
Vision and Perception
Pattern Recognition
Ambient Intelligence
AI and Creativity
Evolutionary Computing
Fuzzy Systems
Knowledge-Based System
Industrial applications of AI
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Visualization
Knowledge-Based Maps

KEYNOTE LECTURES
Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, Netherlands
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library .
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of Springer's LNCS TCCI Journal (This journal will have an edition in 2017 with the papers from ICAART 2016 and 2017) .
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus.
IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 24 - 26 February, 2017
Regular Papers
Paper Submission: October 4, 2016
Authors Notification: November 28, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: December 13, 2016

Position Papers
Paper Submission: November 8, 2016
Authors Notification: December 13, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: December 30, 2016

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: November 7, 2016

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: December 26, 2016
Authors Notification: January 6, 2017
Camera Ready and Registration: January 16, 2017

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: November 23, 2016
Paper Submission: December 9, 2016
Authors Notification: December 23, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: January 2, 2017

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: December 29, 2016

Demos
Demo Proposal: December 29, 2016

Panels
Panel Proposal: December 29, 2016