ICAART 2012

The purpose of the 4th 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/.

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 conference areas:

1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. AGENTS
 

AREA 1: 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

AREA 2: 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