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{{Event
|Acronym=EMAS 2020
|Title=8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
|Series=EMAS
|Type=Workshop
|Superevent=AAMAS 2020
|Start date=2020/05/08
|End date=2020/05/09
|Submission deadline=2020/02/28
|Homepage=https://emas2020.in.tu-clausthal.de/about.html
|City=Auckland
|Country=New Zealand
}}
==Call for Papers==
Despite the substantial body of knowledge and expertise developed in the design and development of multi-agent systems (MAS), the systematic development of large-scale and open MAS still poses many challenges. Even though various languages, models, techniques and methodologies have been proposed in the literature, researchers and developers are still faced with fundamental questions attaining MAS engineering, such as:
* How to specify, design, implement, verify, test, validate and evolve MAS?
* Which architectures are most suitable for MAS of different domains?
* How to seamlessly integrate MAS engineering with mainstream engineering models, languages, frameworks and tools?
* How to seamlessly integrate AI and machine learning techniques into design/programming languages and tools for agent-based systems?
* How to enable agent-based systems to deal with continuous change, for example in the operating environment or user requirements?
* What are the implications of MAS engineering in the context of continuous development and deployment?
* How to ensure and control global behaviour of decentralised, open and large-scale MAS?
* How to express the requirements for large-scale and open MAS and how to translate these requirements into agent goals?
* How to scale with the complexity of real-world application domains?
* How can MAS help developing Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things? Which development tools and frameworks are available/needed?
* Which processes and methodologies can integrate the above and provide a disciplined approach to rapid yet high-quality development of MAS?
* How to engineer agent and multi-agent systems that are secure and protect the privacy concerns of users?

==Topics==
The topics include but are not limited to:

    Programming frameworks, languages, models and abstractions for all aspects of MAS
        cognitive models and architectures, such as BDI
        agent-oriented programming concepts and abstractions
        patterns and idioms for agent-oriented programming
        social, organizational and normative aspects
        agent coordination
        agent communication, trust, commitments and reputation
        contracts, negotiation policies
        mobile agents
        learning agents
        applying agent-oriented programming to real-world applications
    Formal methods and declarative technologies for specification, verification, and engineering of MAS
        semantics for multi-agent programming languages
        modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
        game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
        semantics of agent communication
        (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
        distributed constraint satisfaction
        declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems
        high-level executable multi-agent specification languages
        algorithms for MAS programming (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)
        verification of MAS with machine learning components
    MAS software engineering methodologies and techniques, and development concerns
        software architectures for multi-agent systems
        qualities and tradeoffs of agent-based architectures
        goal-oriented designreusable design knowledge: patterns and reference architectures
        modeling languages for agents and MAS
        testing of agent-based software
        fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS
        safety and security for mobile MAS deployment
        autonomy vs. dependability and robustness
        security and trust in multi-agent systems
    Interoperability and integration
        interoperability and standards for MAS
        standardization efforts for multi-agent systems
        integration of multi-agent and mainstream technologies
        integration of agents with legacy systems
        middleware integration of agent-based software implications of introducing agent-based solutions on the development organization
    Tools and testbeds
        benchmarks and testbeds for comparing multi-agent programming languages and tools
        CASE tools to support agent-oriented software development in practice
        agent/environment/interaction/organization development tools and platforms
        generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming
        coordination infrastructures for multi-agent systems
    Using MAS techniques for engineering self-organizing or self-adaptive systems
        systems of systems engineering
        service-oriented computing and semantic web
        multi-agent based simulation
        social engineering
        concurrent and distributed systems
        grid computing
        pervasive computing
        cloud and edge computing
        cyber-physical systems
        big data applications
        internet of things
    Empirical studies and (industrial) experience reports on engineering MAS applications
        e-health
        e-commerce
        e-learning
        socio-technical systems
        social networks
        (human-)robot systems

==Submission Instructions==
We solicit four types of submission:
* Regular papers should (1) clearly describe innovative and original research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field, or (3) explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world case. (16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format).
* Short papers should either (a) describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development; or (b) present a vision for some part of the field, including challenges, and research opportunities - see the AAMAS Blue Sky Track CFP for more information on these sort of papers. To that end, short papers will be reviewed under specific review guidelines (8 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format).
* Doctoral project papers should describe a research effort of an MSc student or the dissertation research of a PhD student in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. The paper should clearly describe the problem tackled, a justification why this problem is important, the research method, the (expected) contributions of the research, and the evaluation. This paper can be co-authored by the student and their supervisor(s) only (6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format).
* Tool, testbeds and demo papers should describe a novel tool or demonstration in the field of engineering multi-agent systems. Submission may range from early prototypes to in-house or pre-commercialised products. Authors of other EMAS 2020 papers are also welcomed to submit an accompanying tool/demo paper. The paper should provide a link to supplementary material that allows the reviewers to evaluate the submission such as website or movie link (4 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format).

Submission policy: all papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review process is single blind: submissions should not be blind, reviewers will be.

The LNCS formatting style is available via: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The Easychair submission page can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2020. When you enter the title of your paper in the data section in EasyChair, you must add as the first word the category to which the paper has been submitted (this first word does not need to be included in the submitted paper):

* REGULAR for regular papers (16 pages (excluding references))
* SHORT for short papers (8 pages (excluding references))
  Note: The paper's introduction must make it clear whether the paper is early stage results (a) or a vision paper (b).
* DOCTORAL for doctoral project papers (6 pages (excluding references))
* DEMO for tools, testbeds, and demo papers (4 pages (excluding references))

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of the EMAS papers for inclusion in the post-proceedings that we will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
Important Dates

Submission deadline: 28 Feb, 2020
Notification: 10 March, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 1 April 7 April, 2020
EMAS: 9-10 8-9 May, 2020
Acronym	EMAS 2020 +
End date	May 9, 2020 +
Event in series	EMAS +
Event type	Workshop +
Has coordinates	-36° 51' 8", 174° 45' 47"Latitude: -36.852094444444 Longitude: 174.76318055556 +
Has location city	Auckland +
Has location country	Category:New Zealand +
Homepage	https://emas2020.in.tu-clausthal.de/about.html +
IsA	Event +
Start date	May 8, 2020 +
Subevent of	AAMAS 2020 +
Submission deadline	February 28, 2020 +
Title	8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems +