SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Recently, the area of agents and multi-agent systems has grown into a respected research field and a promising technology that has already been exploited in several industrial cases. There have been many novel methods, algorithms and theories investigated and formulated, enhancing classical software engineering and computer science, distributed systems and parallel computing, various fields of robotics, collaborative systems, internet services and technologies, and grid computing, as well as knowledge management, computer supported manufacturing or coalition formation and teamwork. Researchers have participated in a vast number of international and national research projects which have resulted in networks of excellence, thematic clusters and large-scale standardization efforts. Even though there are noteworthy successes in applying research achievements from the areas of multi-agent systems and autonomous agents in design and manufacturing, transport and logistics, military and space applications, the tourism industry, e-commerce and many other areas, there is still a gap between the state of the art achieved in the theoretical foundations of agent technologies and their potential for industry-wide deployment. This conference is expected to contribute to bridging this gap by bringing together research scientists, academics, industrial experts and key decision-makers from all over the world in one location, where world-wide technological advancements meet the research potential of Central and Eastern European countries.

After the success of CEEMAS 1999 (St. Petersburg), and CEEMAS 2001 (Cracow) in June 2003, this CEEMAS event will take place in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference proceedings will be published as a LNAI volume by Springer Verlag.

TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE:

agent models and architectures reactive and intentional agents conflicts, conflict resolution and negotiation teamwork and coordinated behavior formal methods, logic in MAS coalition formation and team-action planning personal agents, agent-based user interfaces learning and evolution in MAS holons and holarchies mobility, migration agents’ knowledge representation social knowledge and social reasoning

agents in electronic business and virtual organizations self-organizing systems and emergent organization complexity and tractability in agent-based systems role of agent standards – communication, agent management, ontologism agent oriented programming and agent-based software engineering agent communication, interaction protocols and mechanisms meta-reasoning, meta-agency, reflection in MAS security, authentication, intrusion detection

AGENT PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL

Immediately following CEEMAS conference, there will be one-day tutorial (19^the June) on Agent Programming Using JADE organized by the Gerstner Laboratory. For additional information please see the tutorial page.

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNAI guidelines and must not exceed 10 pages, including graphics and references (http://www.springer.de/ comp/lncs/authors.html). Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site.

COPYRIGHT FORMS

Authors are requested to submit copyright forms to the address:

CEEMAS 2003
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Technicka 2,
166 27, Prague 6
Czech Republic
Fax: (+ 420) 224 923 677

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