MASTS 2012 - Fourth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics

The MASTS 2012 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics will bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on or are interested in exploring novel approaches to multi-agent systems development and the use of multi-agent systems technology in building innovative applications.
The goal of the workshop is to present and discuss ideas and developments related to two converging areas of research and applications, namely multi-agent systems and semantic technology. The workshop aims to focus on issues such as: the semantic role of agents in building complex distributed applications, the collective and cognitive dimensions of the multi-agent systems paradigm, and the use of agents in the development and deployment of semantic web services.
MASTS 2012 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2012) in Calabria, Italy, September 24-26, 2012.
Call for Papers
The workshop welcomes high-quality papers including, but not limited to the following topics:
Technologies for modeling and development of agent based systems
novel architectures for multiagent systems
semantic based agent interaction protocols and negotiation
multi-agent planning
multi-agent coordination techniques
agent oriented programming languages and semantics
multi-agent learning
self-organizing multi-agent systems
emerging behaviour in agent systems
Agent systems and semantics
the role of shared ontologies in agent systems
agent systems and Semantic Web technologies
ontologies for agent cooperation and coordination
semantic interoperability
semantic agent communities and applications
Novel agent applications
agents for Web services and semantic Web services
agent systems for modeling business processes
business processes interoperability based on agents and semantics
agent systems for Grid or cloud computing and the Semantic Grid
agent systems for developing complex applications
agent based systems and ambient intelligence
conversational agents for innovative applications