ICAART 2014 - 2014 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work.
In the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications are concerned.
In the area of artificial intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to intelligent systems and Computational Intelligence are concerned.
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
Semantic Web
Multi-Agent Systems
Distributed Problem Solving
Agent Communication Languages
Agent Models and Architectures
Cooperation and Coordination
Conversational Agents
Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
Programming Environments and Languages
Task Planning and Execution
Autonomous Systems
Cognitive Robotics
Group Decision Making
Web Intelligence
Agent Platforms and Interoperability
SOA and Software Agents
Simulation
Economic Agent Models
Mobile Agents
Privacy, safety and security
Collective Intelligence
Physical Agents
Robot and Multi-robot Systems
Self Organizing Systems
Cloud Computing
Auctions and Markets
AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligent User Interfaces
Bayesian Networks
Soft Computing
Neural Networks
Natural language processing
Machine Learning
Planning and Scheduling
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Uncertainty in AI
Model-Based Reasoning
Ontologies
Data Mining
Constraint Satisfaction
State Space Search
Case-Based Reasoning
Cognitive Systems
Reactive AI
Vision and Perception
Pattern Recognition
Ambient Intelligence
AI and Creativity
Evolutionary Computing
Fuzzy Systems
Knowledge Based System
Industrial applications of AI
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Visualization
Knowledge based Maps
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ICAART 2014 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.