13th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

Athens, 17-18 December 2015

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

  • Deadline for registering abstracts:
    September 7, 2015 September 17, 2015

  • Deadline for papers submission:
    September 10, 2015 September 20, 2015

  • Final decisions to authors:
    October 5, 2015 October 15, 2015

  • Camera Ready Papers:
    October 10, 2015 October 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).

 

 

Sponsors


The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) is sponsoring one invited keynote speaker. ECCAI's support is greatly appreciated.

 

The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.

 

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

  • Deadline for registering abstracts:
    September 7, 2015 September 17, 2015

  • Deadline for papers submission:
    September 10, 2015 September 20, 2015

  • Final decisions to authors:
    October 5, 2015 October 15, 2015

  • Camera Ready Papers:
    October 10, 2015 October 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:

  1. Full research papers of 12 to 15 pages, describing original and unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to another venue is not allowed.
  2. 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.
  3. 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, 2015 September 17, 2015
  • Deadline for papers submission:  September 10, 2015 September 20, 2015
  • Final decisions to authors: October 5, 2015 October 15, 2015
  • Camera Ready Papers: October 10, 2015 October 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.

 

 

 

 

Sponsors


The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) is sponsoring one invited keynote speaker. ECCAI's support is greatly appreciated.

 

The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.

 

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

  • Deadline for registering abstracts:
    September 7, 2015 September 17, 2015

  • Deadline for papers submission:
    September 10, 2015 September 20, 2015

  • Final decisions to authors:
    October 5, 2015 October 15, 2015

  • Camera Ready Papers:
    October 10, 2015 October 30, 2015

  • Conference:
    17- 18 December, 2015

Registration

Happy to have you with us!

 

Conference rates

  Student Regular
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.

 

 

Sponsors


The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) is sponsoring one invited keynote speaker. ECCAI's support is greatly appreciated.

 

The conference is supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center.

 

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. O. Shehory. Optimal bidding in multiple concurrent auctions. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 11(3-4), pages 315-327, 2002.

  4. 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.

  5. M. Goldstein, O. Shehory, R. Tzoref and S. Ur. Improving Throughput via Slowdowns. ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

     
9:00-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:45 Invited Talk

Excerpts from the study of coalitions: from social behavior to computer science

Onn Shehory, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
ECCAI Sponsored Keynote Speaker

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00

EUMAS Session 1
COORDINATION & PLANNING


From Public Plans To Global Solutions in Multiagent Planning, Jan Tozicka, Jan Jakubuv and Antonín Komenda.
Customized document research by a stigmergic approach using agents and artifacts, Zina El Guedria and Laurent Vercouter.
Composing Swarm Robot Formations Based on Their Distributions Using Mobile Agents, Ryotaro Oikawa, Munehiro Takimoto and Yasushi Kambayashi.

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.

AT Session 1
ORGANIZATIONS & NORMATIVE SYSTEMS


Towards Smart Open Fleets, Holger Billhardt, Alberto Fernandez, Marin Lujak, Sascha Ossowski, Vicente Julián, Juan F. De Paz and Josefa Z. Hernandez.
Modeling and Enforcing Obligations for Logical Access Control, Fabio Marfia, Nicoletta Fornara and Truc-Vien T. Nguyen.
How to share knowledge by gossiping, Andreas Herzig and Faustine Maffre.

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.
Selfish Agents in Normative Multi-agent Systems, Xin Sun.

13:00-14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15-16:00

EUMAS Session 2
NEGOTIATION & LEARNING

Factored MDPs for Optimal Prosumer Decision-Making in Continuous State Spaces, Angelos Angelidakis and Georgios Chalkiadakis.
Towards an Agent-based Negotiation Scheme for Scheduling Electric Vehicles Charging, Andreas Seitaridis, Emmanouil Rigas, Nick Bassiliades and Sarvapali Ramchurn.
A Dialectical Approach to Enable Decision Making in Online Trading, Wei Bai, Emmanuel Tadjouddine and Terry Payne.

SHORT PAPERS

Group-based Pricing to Shape Demand in Real-time Electricity Markets Rahul Agrawal, Anirban Chakraborti, Karamjit Singh, Gautam Shroff and Venkatesh Sarangan.
Human Rating Methods on Multi-Agent Systems, Chairi Kiourt, Dimitris Kalles and George Pavlidis.

AT Session 2
APPLICATIONS

Argumentation-based Hybrid Recommender System for Recommending Learning Objects, Paula Rodríguez, Stella Heras, Javier Palanca, Néstor Duque and Vicente Julian.
Intelligent People Flow Guidance in Smart Spaces, Marin Lujak and Sascha Ossowski.

SHORT PAPERS

Trust, Negotiations and Virtual Currencies for a Sharing Economy, Dave de Jonge and Carles Sierra.
Automating Personalized Learning through Motivation, Patricia Gutierrez, Nardine Osman and Carles Sierra.
Analysing Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing, Elena Del Val, Guillem Martínez, Vicente Botti and Penélope Hernández.

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:15

EUMAS Session 3
SIMULATION & IMPLEMENTATION


Human-in-the-Loop Simulation of a Virtual Classroom, Jesper Nilsson and Franziska Klügl.
Applying agent based simulation to the design of traffic control systems with respect to real-world urban complexity, Andreea Ion, Cristian Berceanu and Monica Patrascu.
A Concurrent Architecture for Agent Reasoning Cycle Execution in Jason, Maicon Rafael Zatelli, Alessandro Ricci and Jomi Fred Hubner.

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.
Agent Based Simulation to Evaluate Adaptive Caching in Distributed Databases, Santhilata Kuppili Venkata, Jeroen Keppens and Katarzyna Musial.

AT Session 3
NEGOTIATION & TRUST


Agreement Technologies in Smart Cities: Transmission Towers Maintenance with Virtual Organizations, Pablo Chamoso, Fernando De La Prieta, Juan Francisco De Paz, Javier Bajo Pérez and Ignacio Belacortu Arandia.
TugaTAC Broker: A Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Reasoning Agent for Energy Trading, Thiago R. P. M. Rúbio, Jonas Queiroz, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira.

SHORT PAPERS

Probabilistic Argumentation, a Small Step for Uncertainty, a Giant Step for Complexity, Xin Sun.

20:30-22:30

EUMAS & AT 2015 CONFERENCE DINNER

 

Friday 18th

   
9:00-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:45 Invited Talk

Contract-based Systems and Norm Emergence

Michael Luck, Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00

EUMAS Session 4
ARGUMENTATION & NEGOTIATION


What should an agent know not to fail in persuasion? Shizuka Yokohama and Kazuko Takahashi.
Trust-based Multiagent Credit Assignment (TMCA), Samira Nazari and Mohammad Ebrahim Shiri.
Algorithm Selection in Bilateral Negotiation, Litan Ilany and Kobi Gal.

SHORT PAPERS

Identifying Malicious Behavior in Multi-party Bipolar Argumentation Debates, Dionysios Kontarinis and Francesca Toni.
Learning to Get Better at Distributed Coalition Formation in Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems, Predrag Tosic (AT 2015 paper).
Learning in Multi Agent Social Environments with Opponent Models, Chairi Kiourt and Dimitris Kalles.

13:00-14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15-16:00

EUMAS Session 5
NORMS, TRUST AND REPUTATION

Information sources about hydrogeological disasters: the role of trust, Rino Falcone, Alessandro Sapienza and Cristiano Castelfranchi.
Coupling Regulative and Constitutive Dimensions in Situated Artificial Institutions,
Maiquel Brito, Jomi Fred Hubner and Olivier Boissier.
Modeling Social Deviance in Artificial Agent Societies, J. Octavio Gutierrez-Garcia and Emmanuel Lopez-Neri.

SHORT PAPERS

A Particle Swarm Optimization Metaheuristic for the Blocking Flow Shop Scheduling Problem: Total Tardiness Minimization, Nouri Nouha and Talel Ladhari.
ML-MA: Multi-Level Multi-Agents modeling to simulate renewable resources management systems Application on pastoral system: “Ouled Chehida” Case Study, Islem Henane, Sameh Hadouaj and Khaled Ghedira.

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
   

 

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. Olympic Fashion Hotel

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

3. Royal Olympic Hotel

Athanasiou Diakou 28
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 92 88 400
e-mail: reservations@royalolympic.com

4. Best Western Ilisia Hotel

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

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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):

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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:

https://www.google.gr/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=agora+restaurant-bar+athens&rflfq=1&tbm=lcl&rlfi=hd:;si:12700357571845947189

  1. 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