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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
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