SCOPE
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Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become the international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

info@paams.net



TOPICS
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Special Topic of the 2026 edition: "TBC"


PROBLEMS

- Agent-based simulation and prediction
- Distributed problem solving
- Agent cooperation and negotiation
- Agent societies and social networks
- Real-time multi-agent systems
- Human agent interaction, user interfaces
- Adaptation, learning and personalization
- Reputation, trust, privacy and security
- Agent engineering and development tools
- Evaluation, ethical and legal issues


DOMAINS

- Information recovery and information systems
- Knowledge management and data intensive systems
- Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
- Embodied agents and autonomous systems
- Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
- Internet softbots and web intelligence
- Virtual agents, animation and games
- Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
- E-learning and educational systems
- User-centered applications and assisting agents




SPECIAL ISSUES
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Authors of selected papers from PAAMS will be invited to submitan extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.


- Special issue ADCAIJ - Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal JCR (2023): 1.7, (Q3)


To be updated



COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CHAIRS

Philippe Mathieu , University of Lille (France)

Fernando De la Prieta, University of Salamanca (Spain)



ADVISORY BOARD

Bo An, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Paul Davidsson, Malmö University (Sweden)

Keith Decker, University of Delaware (USA)

Yves Demazeau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

Frank Dignum, Umeå University (Sweden)

Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Toru Ishida, Kyoto University (Japan)

Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University (Japan)

Eric Matson, Purdue University (United States)

Jörg P. Müller, Technische Universität Clausthal (Germany)

Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Salvatore Villani, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)





CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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Following the successful initiative from previous years, the PAAMS intends to host a number of workshops on different related areas also in the next edition of the conference. Therefore, PAAMS Committee invites workshop proposals.

The aim of the workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on emerging topics in the scope of the conference.

Our offer will guarantee the following:
- Local support for installing and managing the reviewing site of the submissions.
- 12 pages per paper, published at CCIS Series of Springer, if acceptance rate under 60%.
- Synchonization with PAAMS agenda and coordinated deadlines for workshops.
- Duration: X slots of 2 h each for up to 6 papers each, with maximum of 8 slots.
- Standard equipment and local support all along the workshop.
- Attractive registration, 3 lunches, 2 dinners.
- Possibility of workshop invited speaker but no direct support from PAAMS.
- Suggestion to install a round table at the end of the workshop for making summary.

Please note that workshop organizers will be responsible for creating and advertising the Call for Papers, managing the review process and collecting the camera ready papers. A dedicated Easychair installation will be provided by PAAMS conference organizers (under a centralized management).

For each accepted workshop, one of its organizers will be invited to co-edit the proceedings of the conference.

We hope this offer will catch your attention. Should you be interested in submitting such a proposal, please contact us (info@paams.net) with a proposal before 13th February, 2026. Please note that workshop proposals will be evaluated on a continuous basis and acceptance / rejection decisions will be sent to the workshop organizers within one week from submission. Early submissions are highly encouraged, so that workshop organizers have sufficient time to attract papers.

The proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and include the following information:
- Workshop title
- Workshop organizers’ short bio (including prior experience in organizing workshops) and contact information
- Workshop description and topics
- Relevance of the workshop to the conference
- Information about previous editions of the workshop (if applicable)
- Program Committee members (tentative)
- Estimated number of submitted papers
- Draft CFP

Please submit your workshop proposal by email to (info@paams.net) (Subject: PAAMS Workshop Proposal). Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.




DEMOSTRATIONS
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PAAMS'26 includes a special track for demonstrations. Demonstrations are intended to exhibit practical applications of multi-agent systems and will be a very useful tool in order to complement the regular program with practical examples of particular interest in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Contributions and publication

The author/s must write a paper formatted according to the LNCS-LNAI template, with a maximum length of 6 pages and following the next structure: Introduction, Main purpose, Demonstration, Conclusions and References.

All accepted demonstrations will be included in PAAMS Proceedings as a paper, published in Springer.During PAAMS, authors will have to show their demonstrations. The organization will provide a printed poster of the article, WIFI connection and space on a shared table with other competitors.

More information:https://paams.net/tracks/demonstrations




PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS Proceedings, published by Springer.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

*** Indexing: The books of LNAI and CCIS as part of LNCS series of Springer are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH. ****




IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline: 17th April, 2026

Workshop deadline: 17th April, 2026

Demonstrations deadline: 24th April, 2026

Notification of acceptance: 19th June, 2026

Camera-Ready papers: 15th July, 2026

Conference Celebration: 21st-23rd October, 2026





ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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University of Naples Federico II (Italy)





SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZERS
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University of Lille (France)

University of Salamanca (Spain)

Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Malmö University (Sweden)

University of Delaware (USA)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

Umeå University (Sweden)

KU Leuven (Belgium)

Kyoto University (Japan)

Purdue University (United States)

Technische Universität Claustha (Germany)

Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)