WESAAC 2019 is the 13th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications,  the main national gathering of researchers in Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. Held annually since 2007, WESAAC provides tutorials and short courses aiming to both prepare future generations of Brazilian researchers and to disseminate the current projects of Brazilian researchers.

WESAAC is a forum for the discussion of work at all levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being conducted.  being the best opportunity for Brazilian undergraduate and especially graduate students to attend courses by some of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout the world.

Submission Guidelines

Researchers and students are invited to submit papers in Portuguese or English, as a PDF file formatted according to the SBC style (compulsory) available at
http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers  reporting work with solid results must have no more than 12 pages and will be presented orally in a plenary session
• Short papers reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have between 4 and 6 pages and will be presented in poster sessions

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wesaac2019

List of Topics

Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to):

• agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated reasoning)
• cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation)
• agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms, tools, methodologies)
• agent organizations, societal issues, normative systems, etc.
• agent communication
• social simulations and agent-based simulation
• (formal) specification and verification of multi-agent systems
• machine learning
• automated planning in agent systems
• applications of agents and multi-agent systems

Committees

Program Committee

• Alessandro Ricci - University of Bologna
• Alvaro Moreira - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• Ana Paula Lemke - IFRS – Campus Feliz
• Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão - Universidade de São Paulo
• André Pinz Borges - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
• Antonio Carlos    Rocha Costa - PPGComp/FURG, PPGFil/PUCRS
• Artur Freitas - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Carine Webber - Universidade de Caxias do Sul
• Cesar A. Tacla - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
• Clarissa Xavier - pós-doc UFRGS; visitante UFBA
• Cleo Billa - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG
• Diana Francisca    Adamatti - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG
• Eder Mateus    Nunes Gonçalves - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG
• Fernanda Alencar - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Fernando De La Prieta - University of Salamanca
• Francisca Raquel de Vasconcelos Silveira - IFCE
• Gabriel Ramos - Pós-doc - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Bélgica
• Graçaliz Dimuro - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG
• Guillermo R. Simari - Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca – Argentina
• Gustavo Augusto    Lima de Campos - Universidade Estadual do Ceará
• Helder    Coelho - FCUL – Portugal
• Jaime Sichman - Universidade de São Paulo
• Joao Leite - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Joao Luis Tavares da Silva - Centro Universitário UNIFTEC
• Joilson    Batista de Almeida Rêgo - Universidade Federal de Alagoas
• Jomi Fred Hubner - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Luis Antunes - Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal
• Luis Gustavo Nardin - Brandenburg University of Technology
• Maicon Zatelli - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Maiquel de Brito - Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 
• Mariela    Cortés - Universidade Estadual do Ceará
• Marilton Sanchotene de Aguiar - Universidade Federal de Pelotas
• Olivier    Boissier - Mines Saint-Etienne, Institut Henri Fayol, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS
• Patricia Tedesco - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Paulo Trigo - ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Liboa) – Portugal
• Paulo Leitao - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança – Portugal
• Paulo Rosa - Instituto Militar de Engenharia
• Paulo Novais - Universidade do Minho – Portugal
• Paulo A.L.Castro - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
• Rafael H. Bordini - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Raquel Barbosa - Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• Rejane Frozza - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
• Ricardo Choren - Instituto Militar de Engenharia
• Ricardo Grunitzki - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• Ricardo Azambuja Silveira - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Sara Casare - Universidade de São Paulo
• Túlio Lima Baségio - IFRS - Feliz
• Vera Maria Benjamim Werneck - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Viviane Torres da Silva - IBM

Organizing committee

• Jerusa Marchi (UFSC) - general chair
• Gustavo Alberto Giménez Lugo (UTFPR) - program committee chair
• Gleifer Vaz Alves (UTFPR)  - program committee chair
• Ricardo Silveira (UFSC) - local chair
• Jomi Fred Hübner (UFSC)
• Saulo Popov Zambiasi (UNISUL)

Consulting Committee

• Anarosa Brandão (USP)
• Antônio Carlos Rocha Costa (FURG)
• Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG)
• Jaime Simão Sichman (USP)
• Mariela Inés Cortés (UECE)
• Rejane Frozza (UNISC)

Invited Speakers

• Laurent Perrussel (UT1 - Toulouse - França)

Publication

WESAAC 2019 proceedings will be published in the event web page.

Venue

The conference will be held in Florianópolis - SC, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), on days 2, 3 and 4 May 2018, with the support of the Informatics and Statistics Department and the Engineering of Automation and Systems Department of UFSC and the UNISUL.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Gustavo Giménez Lugo (gustavo@dainf.ct.utfpr.edu.br) and Gleifer Vaz Alves (gleifer@utfpr.edu.br).

Sponsors

• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
• Departamento de Informática e Estatística (INE)
• Departamento de Automação e Sistemas (DAS)
• Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)