ICAART 2013 - 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)

The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.
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. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer-Verlag. 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
Agent Models and Architectures
Agent Communication Languages
Distributed Problem Solving
Collective Intelligence
Semantic Web
Simulation
Multi-Agent Systems
Privacy, safety and security
Mobile Agents
Economic Agent Models
Auctions and Markets
SOA and Software Agents
Agent Platforms and Interoperability
Web Intelligence
Group Decision Making
Physical Agents
Robot and Multi-robot Systems
Self Organizing Systems
Cognitive Robotics
Autonomous Systems
Task Planning and Execution
Programming Environments and Languages
Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
Conversational Agents
Cooperation and Coordination
Cloud Computing
AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Ontologies
Model-Based Reasoning
Uncertainty in AI
Bayesian Networks
Ambient Intelligence
Reactive AI
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Planning and Scheduling
Case-Based Reasoning
Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition
Vision and Perception
AI and Creativity
Expert Systems
Soft Computing
Fuzzy Systems
Neural Networks
Evolutionary Computing
Intelligent User Interfaces
Natural language processing
Cognitive Systems
State Space Search
Constraint Satisfaction
Data Mining
Industrial applications of AI
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States
Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Wibe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom