Topics of Interest
Topics include but are not limited to:- Formal models of agency
- Agent architectures
- BDI architecture
- Learning, evolution, and adaptation
- Perception and action
- Conflict resolution
- Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations
- Negotiation protocols
- Knowledge representation
- Computational complexity
- Autonomous or humanoid robots
- Social robots and robot teams
- Autonomy aspect
- Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
- Embodied and believable agents
- Cooperative distributed problem solving
- Task and resource allocation
- Emergent behavior
- Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
- Modeling other agents and self
- Multi-agent planning
- Multi-agent learning
- Trust and reputation management
- Privacy, safety and security
- Scalability, robustness and dependability
- Social and organizational structures
- Verification and validation
- Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing)
- Brokering and matchmaking
- Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks
- Mobile agents
- Ontologies
- Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability
- Verification and validation
- E-business agents
- e-institutions
- e-commerce
- Pervasive computing
- Privacy, safety, and security
- Simulation systems
- Web services and service-oriented computing
- Artificial social systems
- Autonomic computing
- Case studies and reports on deployments
- Computational infrastructures
- Information retrieval
- Web services and semantic web
- E-learning systems
