CALL FOR PAPERS

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
Philippe Leray, Université de Nantes, France
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory, United States