Important Deadlines:

Position Paper Submission: October 29, 2012

Authors Notification (position papers): November 30, 2012

Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: December 14, 2012


Sponsored by:



INSTICC- Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

fiPa- Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition

OMG- Object Management Group

In Cooperation with:

AAAI- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

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 CHAIR

Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

Keynote SPEAKERS

Elias M. Awad, University of Virginia, United States

Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom


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, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.

AWARDS

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information (http://www.icaart.org/best_paper_awards.asp).


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 Models and Architectures

     Agent Communication Languages

     Distributed Problem Solving

     Collective Intelligence

     Semantic Web

     Simulation

     Multi-Agent Systems

     Privacy, safety and security

     Mobile Agents

     Economic Agent Models

     Auctions and Markets

     SOA and Software Agents

     Agent Platforms and Interoperability

     Web Intelligence

     Group Decision Making

     Physical Agents

     Robot and Multi-robot Systems

     Self Organizing Systems

     Cognitive Robotics

     Autonomous Systems

     Task Planning and Execution

     Programming Environments and Languages

     Negotiation and Interaction Protocols

     Conversational Agents

     Cooperation and Coordination

     Cloud Computing



AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE



     Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

     Ontologies

     Model-Based Reasoning

     Uncertainty in AI

     Bayesian Networks

     Ambient Intelligence

     Reactive AI

     Hybrid Intelligent Systems

     Planning and Scheduling

     Case-Based Reasoning

     Machine Learning

     Pattern Recognition

     Vision and Perception

     AI and Creativity

     Expert Systems

     Soft Computing

     Fuzzy Systems

     Neural Networks

     Evolutionary Computing

     Intelligent User Interfaces

     Natural language processing

     Cognitive Systems

     State Space Search

     Constraint Satisfaction

     Data Mining

     Industrial applications of AI







Program Committee



http://www.icaart.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

(list not yet complete)

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icaart.org).