13th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
Athens, 17-18 December 2015
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EUMAS & AT 2015 Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers of EUMAS & AT are:
- Professor Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London.
- Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Further details about the keynote speakers and the program can be found here.
List of accepted papers
List of accepted papers is available here
EUMAS Flyer
Download from here as PDF
Important Dates
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Deadline for registering abstracts:
September 7, 2015September 17, 2015 -
Deadline for papers submission:
September 10, 2015September 20, 2015 -
Final decisions to authors:
October 5, 2015October 15, 2015 -
Camera Ready Papers:
October 10, 2015October 30, 2015 -
Conference:
17- 18 December, 2015
In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-based computing. This field is now set to become one of the key technologies in the 21st century. It is crucial that both academics and industrialists within Europe have access to a forum at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed.
Following in the tradition of previous editions of EUMAS (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014), the aim of this 13th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
This conference is primarily intended as a European forum at which researchers, and those interested in activities relating to research in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, could meet, present (potentially preliminary) research results, problems, and issues in an open and informal but academic environment. To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2015 offers three submission types and formal proceedings as well as post-proceedings in form of a journal special issue are planned. EUMAS 2015 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS).
EUMAS 2015 News
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The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.
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The conference is supported by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). |
EUMAS & AT 2015 Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers of EUMAS & AT are:
- Professor Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London.
- Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Further details about the keynote speakers and the program can be found here.
List of accepted papers
List of accepted papers is available here
EUMAS Flyer
Download from here as PDF
Important Dates
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Deadline for registering abstracts:
September 7, 2015September 17, 2015 -
Deadline for papers submission:
September 10, 2015September 20, 2015 -
Final decisions to authors:
October 5, 2015October 15, 2015 -
Camera Ready Papers:
October 10, 2015October 30, 2015 -
Conference:
17- 18 December, 2015
This year EUMAS is collocated with the 3rd edition of the International Agreement Technologies (AT) Conference.
This will allow us to develop a rich and inspiring program of high-quality papers reporting original results. Sessions of both conferences will be open to all participants of EUMAS and AT.
Introduction
In the last two decades, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-based computing. This field is now set to become one of the key intelligent systems technologies in the 21st century. The aim of the EUMAS series is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in Europe at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed.
EUMAS 2015, the 13th installment of the conference series follows the tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels 2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010, Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014), and aims to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
The conference is primarily intended as a European forum for anybody interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent system can meet, present challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open and informal environment. To attract students as well as experienced researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2015 offers three submission types and formal proceedings. Also, post-publication in form of a special issues of a high-quality journal in the area are planned.
EUMAS 2015 is a designated event of the European Association of Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Action and Planning, Adaptation and Learning, Agent Architectures, Agent Programming Languages, Agents and Complex Systems, Agent Based Simulation, Ambient Intelligence Applications, Argumentation, Autonomy, Bio-inspired Approaches to Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Cognitive Models, Collective and Swarm Intelligence, Collective Intentionality, Communication, Competition, Complexity, Cooperation, Coordination, e-*Applications (e-commerce, etc.), Economic Models, Emergence, Emotion, Formal Models, Game Theoretic Models, Grid Computing, Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, Methodologies, Negotiation, Organisations and Institutions, Proactivity and Reactivity, Protocols, Robotics, Self-organisation, Semantic Web Agents, Agent-based Service Oriented Computing, Socio-technical Systems, Agent-oriented Software Engineering, Standards, Teamwork, Theories of Agency, Tools, Trust and Reputation, Ubiquitous Computing, Verification, Virtual Agents.
Submissions
EUMAS 2015 welcomes both original, unpublished papers, as well as papers that are under submission or have been published in a relevant conference, conference or journal. We specially invite submissions by students who we think will receive valuable feedback from the discussion-oriented focus of the conference.
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories:
- Full research papers of 12 to 15 pages, describing original and unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.
- Short papers of 6 to 8 pages reporting on original and unpublished work in progress or system descriptions. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.
- Full research papers up to 15 pages reporting on interesting and relevant work that has been published (or accepted for publication) in the last 18 months.
Each submission will be peer-reviewed. All submissions should be formatted following Springer's LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see 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 EUMAS 2015 Easychair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas15.
Proceedings
EUMAS proceedings will be published as a Springer LNCS/LNAI (post-) proceedings volume (www.springer.com/lncs). Full research papers and short papers describing original, unpublished work (categories 1 and 2) accepted at EUMAS 2015 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
We also plan to publish a special issue of an ISI-ranked journal consisting of a small number of best papers extended with additional unpublished original work and fully refereed according to usual journal standards. After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit to the special issue.
Important Dates
- Deadline for registering abstracts:
September 7, 2015September 17, 2015 - Deadline for papers submission:
September 10, 2015September 20, 2015 - Final decisions to authors:
October 5, 2015October 15, 2015 - Camera Ready Papers:
October 10, 2015October 30, 2015 - Conference: 17- 18 December, 2015
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e. before midnight on the respective date anywhere in the world.
EUMAS 2015 News
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The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.
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The conference is supported by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). |
EUMAS & AT 2015 Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers of EUMAS & AT are:
- Professor Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London.
- Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Further details about the keynote speakers and the program can be found here.
List of accepted papers
List of accepted papers is available here
EUMAS Flyer
Download from here as PDF
Important Dates
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Deadline for registering abstracts:
September 7, 2015September 17, 2015 -
Deadline for papers submission:
September 10, 2015September 20, 2015 -
Final decisions to authors:
October 5, 2015October 15, 2015 -
Camera Ready Papers:
October 10, 2015October 30, 2015 -
Conference:
17- 18 December, 2015
Registration
Happy to have you with us!
Conference rates
| Student | Regular | |
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| Early bird registration (ends October 30): |
210 EUR | 260 EUR |
| Late registration (ends November 23): |
250 EUR | 290 EUR |
Please make sure that you register for EUMAS & AT 2015 before November 23, 2015.
Registrations after that date can not be completed (either via bank transfer or on site).
There must be one registration for each paper accepted.
Payments
University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC), on behalf of the event organiser, is in charge of invoicing and payment handling.
Please transfer the registration amount to the bank account of UPRC. Your ticket will be sent upon receipt of payment.
Please note that the payment to UPRC's bank account must cover the full registration amount. Any transaction fees and / or exchange rate differences will not be covered by EUMAS & AT 2015 or UPRC.
Account holder: University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC)
Account number: 190/54041421
SWIFT CODE: ETHNGRAA
IBAN: GR9701101900000019054041421
Bank name: National Bank of Greece,
Branch address: Piraeus A Code *190, Ethnikis Antistaseos 3, Piraeus, 18532
Please make sure to always add the account holder name and "EUMAS/AT 2015" as a justification, otherwise the payment cannot be tracked or it may not succeed.
To complete your registration please send per email to eumas&at2015@unipi.gr the registration form with the necessary documents (explained in the form).
Your Ticket
The ticket includes:
- Admission to all presentations (EUMAS 2015 and AT 2015)
- Conference Bag
- Admission for 1 person to the Conference Dinner (December, 17)
- Warm lunch buffet, coffee, soft drinks, refreshments and snacks
Information on Cancellation Policy
Notification of cancellation must be sent per e-mail to the conference organizers:
- Until 30 November 2015: full refund (handling fee will be charged).
- Until 10 December: 50 % refund (handling fee will be charged).
- After 10 December 2015: No refund will be given.
EUMAS 2015 News
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The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.
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The conference is supported by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). |
EUMAS & AT 2015 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab. (ECCAI Sponsored Keynote Speaker)
Title: Excerpts from the study of coalitions: from social behavior to computer science
Abstract.
From the very early days of human society, people have engaged in coalitions. Individuals in the context of others typically have to interact and collaborate to meet their goals. Collaboration can take place in diverse ways, and indeed various collaboration mechanisms have emerged across history. Science has attempted to study the collaborative phenomenon of coalescing. Philosophical and social studies were conducted first, followed by game theoretic and mathematical research. Computer science, and in particular the multi-agent systems discipline attempted to leverage the game theoretic coalitional solutions and relax them.
Multiple coalitional games have been considered to facilitate collaboration, and many mechanisms have been devised. Within such coalitions, software agents may jointly perform tasks that they would otherwise be unable to perform, or will perform poorly. To allow agent collaboration via coalitions, one should devise a coalition formation mechanism that exhibit desirable properties such as stability, fairness, optimality, and computational tractability. Agents that take part in those mechanisms should be provided with algorithms to guide their activity within. Yet, no solution can concurrently address all of these requirements. This problem intensifies when the number of agents increases.
In this talk I will present excerpts from coalitions' research. I will discuss agent attributes and mechanism properties and their effect on interaction. I will present some games that facilitate interaction as well as algorithms that implement feasible solutions to such games. I will finally present challenges in the context of social networks, big data and security risks.
Short bio.
Dr. Onn Shehory received his B.Sc. in physics and computer science in 1989, M.Sc. in physics in 1992, and Ph.D. in computer science in 1996, all from Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He was a post-doctoral fellow and then a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA from 1996 to 1999. In 1999 he joined the IBM Haifa Research Lab as a research staff member, a position he holds to date. From 2000 to 2006 he was an adjunct lecturer and senior lecturer at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. From 2002 to date he is an adjunct senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Dr. Shehory has edited 15 books, authored over 90 articles, and filed more than 25 patents. Among his research activities are large-scale distributed systems, multi-agent systems, coalition formation, electronic commerce, autonomic systems and software engineering. A paper of his [1] won the 2014 IFAAMAS influential paper award. Two other papers of his won best paper awards. He takes active roles in EU research projects and has served as a coordinator and technical leader of an international research project on software autonomy.
Dr. Shehory is an associate editor of the International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the International Journal on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, and the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. He served a six years term as a board member of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS). Dr. Shehory served on numerous program committees and as an organizer of multiple international conferences. In 2013, he served as the general chair of the international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013).
Selected publications
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O. Shehory and S. Kraus Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 101 (1-2), May 1998, pages 165-200.
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O. Shehory and S. Kraus. Feasible Formation of Coalitions Among Autonomous Agents in Non-Super-Additive Environments, Computational Intelligence, Vol. 15(3), August 1999, pages 218-251.
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O. Shehory. Optimal bidding in multiple concurrent auctions. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 11(3-4), pages 315-327, 2002.
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A. Rosenfeld, G. Kaminka, S. Kraus and O. Shehory. A Study of Mechanisms for Improving Robotic Group Performance. Artificial Intelligence Journal. Vol. 172 (6-7), April 2008, pages 633-655.
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M. Goldstein, O. Shehory, R. Tzoref and S. Ur. Improving Throughput via Slowdowns. ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
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D. Breitgand, M. Goldstein, E. Henis, O. Shehory. Efficient Control of False Negative and False Positive Errors with Separate Adaptive Thresholds. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.128–140, June 2011.
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W. Hummer, O. Raz, O. Shehory, P. Leitner, and S. Dustdar. Test Coverage of Data-Centric Dynamic Compositions in Service-Based Systems. ICST 2011, Berlin, March 2011.
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Y. Adler, N. Behar, O. Raz, O. Shehory, N. Steindler, S. Ur, A. Zlotnick. Code Coverage Analysis in Practice for Large Systems. ICSE 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011.
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S. Das, Y. Nahum, D. Sarne, O. Shehory. Two-Sided Search with Experts. Accepted, ACM EC'12, Valencia, June 2012.
Professor Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London
Title: Contract-based Systems and Norm Emergence
Abstract.
Mirroring the paper versions exchanged between businesses today, electronic contracts offer the possibility of dynamic, automatic creation and enforcement of restrictions and compulsions on agent behaviour that are designed to ensure business objectives are met. However, where there are many contracts within a particular application, it can be difficult to determine whether the system can reliably fulfill them all; computer-parsable electronic contracts may allow such verification to be automated. In this talk, I will illustrate some of these issues with aspects of the CONTRACT project, which developed frameworks, components and tools that make it possible to model, build, verify and monitor distributed electronic business systems on the basis of dynamically generated, cross-organisational contracts. I will describe a conceptual framework and architecture specification in which normative business contracts can be electronically represented, verified. As a contrast, I will also consider other efforts that seek to have norms emerge directly from the interactions of individuals within a society.
Short bio.
Michael Luck is Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at King's College London, where he also works in the Agents and Intelligent Systems group, undertaking research into agent technologies and intelligent systems. He is Scientific Advisor to the Board for Aerogility. His work has sought to take a principled approach to the development of practical agent systems, and spans, among other areas, formal models for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, norms and institutions, trust and reputation, application to bioinformatics and health, and deployment and technology forecasting. He was previously a director of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS), and was a member of the Executive Committee of AgentLink III, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing, having previously been the Director of AgentLink II. He has been an editorial board member of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, as well as for the SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems series. He was also general co-chair of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), held in Toronto, Canada in May 2010.
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Thursday 17th
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| 9:45-10:45 | Invited Talk | ||
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Excerpts from the study of coalitions: from social behavior to computer science Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab. |
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EUMAS Session 1
SHORT PAPERS Collaborative Judgement, Ewa Andrejczuk, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar and Carles Sierra. Collaborative Framework for Monitoring Reliability of Distributed Components of Composed Services, Hisain Elshaafi, Dmitri Botvich and Steven Davy.
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AT Session 1
SHORT PAPERS Multiagent model for agile context inference based on artificial immune systems and sparse distributed representations, Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Paul Davidsson and Jan Persson. |
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EUMAS Session 2 Factored MDPs for Optimal Prosumer Decision-Making in Continuous State Spaces, Angelos Angelidakis and Georgios Chalkiadakis. SHORT PAPERS Group-based Pricing to Shape Demand in Real-time Electricity Markets Rahul Agrawal, Anirban Chakraborti, Karamjit Singh, Gautam Shroff and Venkatesh Sarangan. |
AT Session 2 Argumentation-based Hybrid Recommender System for Recommending Learning Objects, Paula Rodríguez, Stella Heras, Javier Palanca, Néstor Duque and Vicente Julian. SHORT PAPERS Trust, Negotiations and Virtual Currencies for a Sharing Economy, Dave de Jonge and Carles Sierra. |
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EUMAS Session 3
SHORT PAPERS Hardware Architecture Benchmarking for Simulation of Human Immune System by Multi-agents Systems, Fabio Martins, Alcione Oliveira, Ricardo Ferreira and Fabio R Cerqueira. |
AT Session 3
SHORT PAPERS Probabilistic Argumentation, a Small Step for Uncertainty, a Giant Step for Complexity, Xin Sun. |
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EUMAS & AT 2015 CONFERENCE DINNER |
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Friday 18th
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| 9:45-10:45 | Invited Talk | |
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Contract-based Systems and Norm Emergence Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London |
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EUMAS Session 4
SHORT PAPERS Identifying Malicious Behavior in Multi-party Bipolar Argumentation Debates, Dionysios Kontarinis and Francesca Toni. |
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| 13:00-14:15 | LUNCH BREAK | |
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EUMAS Session 5 Information sources about hydrogeological disasters: the role of trust, Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza and Cristiano Castelfranchi. SHORT PAPERS A Particle Swarm Optimization Metaheuristic for the Blocking Flow Shop Scheduling Problem: Total Tardiness Minimization, Nouri Nouha and Talel Ladhari.
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Venue
The conference venue is the Congress Center of the National Centre For Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSR “Demokritos”)
NCSD "Demokritos" is situated in Agia Paraskevi, a very pleasant suburb at the foot of mount Hymettus, 10 km from the center of Athens and just 10 minutes from Eleftherios Venizelos Airport.
The Congress Center comprises a complex of rooms, lounges, exhibition spaces, and auditoriums. The Congress Center is open to the scientific and academic communities, to groups from the arts and culture, as well as to the general public, private companies, public services, public sector organizations, scientific and cultural institutions, and international organizations and associations, for scientific, technological and cultural events.
The Congress Center provides also a spacious parking area.
Access to NCSR Demokritos is direct from different points of interest, and transportation to any place in or near Athens is very easy.
Please consult the Urban Railways Transport site for timetables and routes.
Accomodation
1 Souri st. and Vassileos Georgiou Av.
Halandri, Athens,
15124
Greece
Tel.: +30 210 68 13 430
Fax: +30 210 68 19 836
2. The Golden Age of Athens Hotel
(close to metro station MEGARO MOUSIKIS - 15 minutes by taxi, ~10€)
57, Michalakopoulou Street
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 72 40 861
Fax: +30 210 72 13 965
Athanasiou Diakou 28
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 92 88 400
e-mail: reservations@royalolympic.com
25 Michalakopoulou Street,
Athens, Greece, 11528
Tel.: +30 210 72 44 051,
Tel.: +30 210 72 41 847
5. The President Hotel
(close to metro station PANORMOU - 15 minutes by taxi, ~10€)
43, Kifissias Ave.
115 23 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 69 89 000
Fax: +30 210 69 24 900
Conference Chairs
| Michael Rovatsos | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| George Vouros | University of Piraeus, Greece |
Local Organizers
| George Vouros | University of Piraeus, Greece |
| Alexander Artikis | NCSR "Demokritos" |
| George Santipantakis | University of Piraeus, Greece |
Program Committee (TBC)
| Natasha Alechina | University of Nottingham |
| Luis Antunes | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Katie Atkinson | University of Liverpool |
| Bernhard Bauer | Uni Augsburg |
| Ana L. C. Bazzan | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul |
| Elizabeth Black | King's College London |
| Olivier Boissier | ENS Mines Saint-Etienne |
| Nils Bulling | Delft University of Technology |
| Cristiano Castelfranchi | Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR |
| Sofia Ceppi | Microsoft Research |
| Georgios Chalkiadakis | Technical University of Crete |
| Massimo Cossentino | National Research Council of Italy |
| Mehdi Dastani | Utrecht University |
| Paul Davidsson | Malmö University |
| Tiago de Lima | University of Artois and CNRS |
| Frank Dignum | Utrecht University |
| Malcolm Egan | Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni | LIP6 - University of Pierre and Marie Curie |
| Nicola Gatti | Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano |
| Valentin Goranko | Technical University of Denmark |
| Michal Jakob | FEE Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Franziska Klügl | Örebro University |
| Matthias Klusch | DFKI, Germany |
| Joao Leite | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa |
| Brian Logan | University of Nottingham |
| Alessio Lomuscio | Imperial College London |
| Dominique Longin | IRIT-CNRS |
| Emiliano Lorini | IRIT |
| Nicolas Maudet | University Pierre et Marie Curie |
| John-Jules Meyer | Utrecht University |
| Frederic Moisan | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Pavlos Moraitis | Paris Descartes University |
| Jörg P. Müller | TU Clausthal |
| Aniello Murano | Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Emma Norling | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Peter Novák | Delft University of Technology |
| Ingrid Nunes | UFRGS |
| Andrea Omicini | Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna |
| Nir Oren | University of Aberdeen |
| Nardine Osman | Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) |
| Sascha Ossowski | University Rey Juan Carlos |
| Julian Padget | University of Bath |
| Wojciech Penczek | ICS PAS and Siedlce University |
| Enrico Pontelli | New Mexico State University |
| Ram Ramanujam | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
| Alessandro Ricci | University of Bologna |
| Regis Riveret | Imperial College London |
| Valentin Robu | Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh |
| Antonino Rotolo | CIRSFID, University of Bologna |
| Michael Rovatsos | School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh |
| Jordi Sabater Mir | IIIA, CSIC |
| Emilio Serrano | Technical University of Madrid |
| Marija Slavkovik | University of Bergen |
| Jose M. Such | Lancaster University |
| Matthias Thimm | Universität Koblenz-Landau |
| Ingo J. Timm | University of Trier |
| Paolo Torroni | University of Bologna |
| Nicolas Troquard | Laboratory for Applied Ontology |
| Paolo Turrini | Imperial College London |
| Karl Tuyls | University of Liverpool |
| Leon van der Torre | University of Luxembourg |
| Wamberto Vasconcelos | Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen |
| Laurent Vercouter | LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen |
| Serena Villata | INRIA Sophia Antipolis |
| Cees Witteveen | Delft University of Technology |
| Neil Yorke-Smith | American University of Beirut |
Dear EUMAS & AT 2015 delegate,
we are very much looking forward to having you in Athens for the conference! One week to go until the conference and preparations are running at full speed.
We hope you have made your arrangements to come to the conference, please note also the information on “accommodation & venue" on our conference page.
Here are some more important details (please read them carefully):
- Directions/Venue Information: The conference will take place in the Congress Center of NCSR Demokritos. Sign posts in the NCSR Demokritos Campus will guide you to the building. Sessions will take place in the main auditorium and to another room next to it.
You can access NCSR "Demokritos" from the centre of Athens:
By Bus: Take the bus B5 from the Central Railway Station towards Aghia Paraskevi, and get off at the "4th stop of Ag. Paraskevi". The bus stop is very close to the main entrance of NCSR "Demokritos". Depending on the traffic, the journey from the centre of Athens may take from 45 to 60 minutes. See the drive here: http://www.oasa.gr/xmap.php?id=pb5
By Metro and Bus: Take line 3 of the metro (blue line) to "Doukissis Plakentias" direction and get off at "Nomismatokopio" stop. Follow the “Kondylaki” exit where you can reach the bus station. Take the B5 bus, the 406 bus or the 407 bus towards the direction of Aghia Paraskevi, and get off at the "4th stop of Ag. Paraskevi". The bus stop is next to the main entrance of NCSR "Demokritos". Depending on the traffic, this journey from the centre of Athens may take approximately 30 minutes.
By Taxi: Taking a taxi from the centre of Athens to NCSR "Demokritos" costs approximately 12 Euros. Depending on the traffic, the journey from the centre of Athens may take from 20 to 30 minutes.
All routes to NCSR "Demokritos" can be found here.
Important: To enter the NCSR Demokritos you need to have your Id or passport for security reasons.
- Registration desks/Collecting your conference bag&badges: The registration desk will be open for registration/collecting your badges and conference bag, etc. at the following times:
| 17/12: | 08:00-9:45/11:00-17:30 |
| 18/12: | 08:00-9:45/11:00-14:00 |
In order to avoid delays, make sure at least to be there enough in advance.
- Conference Dinner: We welcome all participants to the Conference Dinner on Dec 17 at 20:30. Separate registration is not required for registered conference participants. The conference dinner will take place in AGORA restaurant-bar.
Directions to AGORA:Take line 3 of the metro (blue line) and get off at “Ampelokipi" stop. Follow the “Alexandras/Soutsou” exit. The restaurant is 2’ walking distance from there. You can check the location at:
- Information for speakers:
- all speakers be there in the room you are presenting well before the session starts (at leaset 10min before) and get in touch with the session chair
- Regular presentations have 25’ with questions and short presentations 15’ with questions.
Looking very much forward to having you in Athens!
George Vouros, Michael Rovatsos, Vicente Julian