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 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 Communication Languages Agent Models and Architectures Agent Platforms and Interoperability Autonomous Systems Cognitive Robotics Physical Agents Robot and Multi-robot Systems Self Organizing Systems Collective Intelligence Conversational Agents Cooperation and Coordination Distributed Problem Solving Economic Agent Models Cloud Computing Group Decision Making Mobile Agents Multi-Agent Systems Negotiation and Interaction Protocols Auctions and Markets Privacy, safety and security Programming Environments and Languages Semantic Web Simulation SOA and Software Agents Task Planning and Execution Web Intelligence AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI and Creativity Ambient Intelligence Case-Based Reasoning Cognitive Systems Constraint Satisfaction Data Mining Evolutionary Computing Expert Systems Fuzzy Systems Hybrid Intelligent Systems Industrial applications of AI Intelligent User Interfaces Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Machine Learning Model-Based Reasoning Natural language processing Neural Networks Ontologies Pattern Recognition Planning and Scheduling Reactive AI Soft Computing State Space Search Uncertainty in AI Bayesian Networks Vision and Perception Paper Submission Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A \"double-blind\" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a \"full paper\" (30 min. oral presentation) , a \"short paper\" (20 min. oral presentation) or a \"poster\". Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of \"short paper\" or \"poster\", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as \"full paper\". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. Publications All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). 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 CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). Important Dates Conference Date: 15 - 18 February, 2013 Regular Paper Submission: July 24, 2012 Authors Notification (regular papers): October 24, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 14, 2012 Secretariat ICAART Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 e-mail: icaart.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.icaart.org/ Venue The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain. The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms. Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network. Conference Chair Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Program Committee Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal Nabil Belacel, National Research Council Canada, Canada François Charpillet, Loria - Inria Lorraine, France Davide Ciucci, Universita\' Degli Studi Di Milano Bicocca, France Rajarshi Das, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona, Italy Peter Géczy, AIST, Japan Kasper Hallenborg, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Andreas Herzig, University of Toulouse, CNRS, France Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, United States Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Michel Klein, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Matthias Klusch, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany Yau-Hwang Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Jingpeng Li, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Stanley Loh, UCPEL, Brazil Luís Seabra Lopes, University of Aveiro, Portugal Anders Lyhne Christensen, Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal Ambra Molesini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Rong Qu , University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP/LIACC - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Antoine Spicher, LACL - Université Paris-Est Créteil, France Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Shiliang Sun, East China Normal University, China Matteo Vasirani, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Li-Yan Yuan , University of Alberta, Canada