This year The Agreement Technologies conference (AT 2017) is collocated with EUMAS 2017. Sessions of both conferences will be opened to all participants of EUMAS and AT. We hope that this will allow us to develop a rich and inspiring program of high-quality papers reporting original results.
Selected papers from AT 2017 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a special track published in AI-COMMUNICATIONS.
AIMS AND SCOPE
Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may choose whether to fulfil an agreement or not, and it should fulfil it when there is an obligation to do so derived from the standing agreements. Autonomy, interaction, mobility and openness are key concepts studied within Agreement Technologies approach. Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organisations, trust and reputation and several other technologies are part of the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems.
The International Conference Series on Agreement Technologies is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant field. It provides an avenue to discuss and exchange new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems centred on the notion of agreement among computational agents.
AT 2017 follows the successful outcome of the previous editions of the International Conference on Agreement Technologies: AT 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, AT 2013 in Beijing, AT 2015 in Athens and AT 2016 in Valencia.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
SUBMISSIONS
AT 2017 welcomes original, unpublished papers. We especially invite submissions by students who could benefit from receiving valuable feedback from the discussion-oriented focus of the conference.
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following two categories:
Full Papers: Papers in this category should represent original and previously unpublished work that is currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references and figures.
Position Papers: We also welcome position papers which are intended for the discussion of ideas and concepts related to research. Examples could include thoughtful critiques of the field, technical discussions of various implementation techniques, methodological contributions, and visionary ideas that propose long-term challenges and new research opportunities that are outside the current mainstream of the field. Position papers can be 4-6 pages in length.
Each submission will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . We request the submission of title and abstract prior to paper submission to support the tight schedule of reviewing. Authors must submit their abstracts and papers through the AT 2017 Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=at2017.
For preparing your paper, you will need to download the following files from the Springer web site:
PROCEEDINGS
AT-2017 proceedings will be published in a Springer LNCS/LNAI volume . Full research papers and position papers describing original, unpublished work accepted at AT 2017 will be included in the proceedings. We will give authors of accepted papers the opportunity to revise the camera ready version of their paper(s) in order to incorporate feedback received upon the presentation of their work during the conference.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
A special track in the AI-COMMUNICATIONS Journal ( http://www.iospress.nl/journal/ai-communications/ ) with best papers from the AT 2017 conference will be published. AI Communications is an ISI ranked Journal on Artificial Intelligence (AI) which has a close relationship to EurAi (European Association for Artificial Intelligence).
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e. before midnight on the respective date anywhere in the world.
CONFERENCE CHAIR
CONTACT DETAILS
AT Organising Committee ( at2017@easychair.org )