Call for Papers Scope | Conference Areas | Keynote Speakers | Paper Submission Publications | Important Dates | Secretariat | Venue Conference Chair | Program Chair | Program Committee ICAART is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication SCOPE The purpose of the 7th 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 LECTURES Chris Reed, University of Dundee, United Kingdom Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, United States Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, United Kingdom PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LNAI Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. IMPORTANT DATES Conference Date: 10 - 12 January, 2015 Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 1, 2014 (extended) Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Position Papers Paper Submission: September 30, 2014 Authors Notification: November 6, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: November 5, 2014 Authors Notification: November 18, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 28, 2014 SECRETARIAT ICAART Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 e-mail: icaart.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.icaart.org/ VENUE Our conference will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel, this 4 star Venue was considered Portugal’s leading conference hotel. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Stephane Loiseau, LERIA, University of Angers, France Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Béatrice Duval, LERIA, University of Angers, France Jaap van den Herik, Leiden University, Netherlands