Keywords
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Agent Communication:
- Agent commitments
- Communication languages
- Communication protocols
- Speech act theory
- Agent Cooperation:
- Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
- Collective intelligence
- Distributed problem solving
- Human-robot/agent interaction
- Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
- Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
- Agent Reasoning:
- Cognitive models
- Knowledge representation
- Logics for agency
- Ontological reasoning
- Planning (single and multi-agent)
- Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
- Agent societies and Societal issues:
- Artificial social systems
- Environments, organisations and institutions
- Ethical and legal issues
- Normative systems
- Peer to peer coordination
- Privacy, safety and security
- Social and organizational structure
- Trust, reliability and reputation
- Agent Theories, Models and Architectures:
- BDI
- Belief revision
- Bounded rationality
- Formal models of agency
- Logic-based approaches and methods
- Mobile agents
- Modeling other agents and self
- Modeling the dynamics of MAS
- Reactive vs deliberative approaches
- Service oriented architectures
- Verification of MAS
- Agent-based simulation:
- Artificial societies
- Emergent behavior
- Participatory simulation
- Simulation techniques, tools and environments
- Social simulation
- Agent-based system development:
- Agent development techniques, tools and environments
- Agent programming languages
- Agent specification or validation languages
- Case studies and implemented systems
- Design languages for agent systems
- Development environments
- Middleware for agent systems
- Programming languages
- P2P, web services, grid computing
- Software engineering (agent- or multi agent-oriented)
- Testing of agent systems
- Agreement Technologies:
- Argumentation
- Collective decision making
- Judgment aggregation and belief merging
- Negotiation
- Norms
- Economic paradigms:
- Agent supported experimental economics
- Artificial economies/markets
- Auction and mechanism design
- Bargaining and negotiation
- Economically-motivated agents
- Electronic markets
- Game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
- Social choice and voting
- Learning:
- Computational architectures for learning
- Evolution, adaptation
- Learning (single and multi-agent)
- Systems and Organisation:
- Autonomic computing
- Complex systems
- Self-organisation
- Robotics:
- (Integrated) perception, cognition, and action
- Cognitive robotics
- Formal models (including robot plans, ant robots)
- Mapping (including exploration, coverage, and SLAM)
- Networked robot systems
- Robot planning (including action and motion planning)
- Robot teams, multi-robot systems, robot coordination
- Robotic agent languages and middleware for robot systems
- Virtual Agents:
- Agents in games and virtual environments
- Companion and coaching agents
- Modeling cognition and socio-cultural behavior
- Modeling narrative
- Modeling natural language
- Modeling personality, emotions
- Multimodal interaction
- Verbal and non-verbal expressiveness
- Virtual agent applications and empirical studies
- Virtual character modeling and animation