5th International Conference on Agreement Technologies, December 14-15, Èvry, France. 

Agreement Technologies refer to computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another, typically on behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. An agent may choose whether to fulfil an agreement or not, and it should fulfil it when there is an obligation to do so derived from the standing agreements. Autonomy, interaction, mobility and openness are key concepts studied within the Agreement Technologies approach.

Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, virtual organisations, trust and reputation and several other technologies are part of the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems. The International Conference Series on Agreement Technologies is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on the various topics comprising this emergent and vibrant field. It provides an avenue to discuss and exchange new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems centred on the notion of agreement among computational agents.

AT 2017 follows the successful outcome of the previous editions of the International Conference on Agreement Technologies: AT 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, AT 2013 in  Beijing, AT 2015 in Athens and AT 2016 in Valencia.

This year the Agreement Technologies Conference (AT 2017) is collocated with EUMAS 2017. Sessions of both conferences will be open to all participants of EUMAS and AT. We hope that this will allow us to develop a rich and inspiring program of high-quality papers reporting original results.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing original and previously unpublished work that is currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. Papers should not exceed 15 pages including references and figures.
• Position papers intended for the discussion of ideas and concepts related to research. Examples could include thoughtful critiques of the field, technical discussions of various implementation techniques, methodological contributions, and visionary ideas that propose long-term challenges and new research opportunities that are outside the current mainstream of the field. Position papers can be 4-6 pages in length.

Topics of Interest

• Argumentation and negotiation
• Trust and reputation
• Coalition & team formation
• Coordination and distributed decision making
• Computational social choice
• Semantic alignment
• Inter-theory relations
• Decision and game theoretic foundations for agreement
• Agent commitments
• Semantic service coordination
• Normative systems
• Individual reasoning about norm adoption
• Collective deliberation about norm adoption
• Autonomic Electronic Institutions
• Group planning agreements
• Deliberative agreement: social choice and collective judgment
• Evolution of organisational structures
• Social Intelligence
• Logics for agreements
• Real-time agreements
• Agreement patterns
• Agreement technologies architectures, environments and methodologies
• Applications of agreement technologies (e.g. web service composition, contract automation, supply chain automation, sensor networks, etc.)

Organizing Committee

Program Committee Chair

• Estefania Argente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Local Organizing Committee Chair

• Francesco Belardinelli, Université d'Evry, France

Venue

The conference will be held at the IBISC laboratory, Université d'Evry, France.  Évry "new town" in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located 25km from the center of Paris. Just 25 minutes from Paris by RER, Évry is near the countryside. The Forest of Fontainebleau is only 35 kilometres away. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: at2017@easychair.org