Software systems are becoming more intelligent in the kind of functionality they offer users. At the same time, systems are becoming more decentralized, with components that represent autonomous entities who must communicate among themselves to achieve their goals. Examples of such systems range from healthcare and emergency relief and disaster management to e-business and smarts grids. A multiagent worldview is crucial to properly conceptualizing, building, and governing such systems. It offers abstractions such as intelligent agent, protocol, norm, organization, trust, incentive, and so on, and is rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations. As a large but still growing research field of Computer Science, multiagent systems today remains a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Logic and Reasoning

    Logics of agency
    Logics of multiagent systems
    Norms
    Argumentation
    Computational Game Theory
    Uncertainty in Agent Systems
    Agent and Multi-Agent Learning

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

    Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
    Interaction protocols
    Commitments
    Institutions and Organizations
    Normative Systems
    Formal Specification and Verification
    Agent Programming Languages
    Middleware and Platforms
    Testing, debugging, and evolution
    Deployed System Case Studies

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

    Simulation Languages and Platforms
    Artificial Societies
    Virtual Environments
    Emergent Behavior
    Modeling System Dynamics
    Application Case Studies

Collaboration & Coordination

    Planning
    Distributed Problem Solving
    Teamwork
    Coalition Formation
    Negotiation
    Trust and Reputation

Economic paradigms

    Auctions and mechanism design
    Bargaining and negotiation
    Behavioral game theory
    Cooperative games: theory & analysis
    Cooperative games: computation
    Noncooperative games: theory & analysis
    Noncooperative games: computation
    Social choice theory
    Game theory for practical applications

Human-Agent Interaction

    Adaptive Personal Assistants
    Embodied Conversational Agents
    Virtual Characters
    Multimodal User Interfaces
    Mobile Agents
    Human-Robot Interaction

Decentralized Paradigms

    Grid Computing
    Service-Oriented Computing
    Cybersecurity
    Robotics and Multirobot Systems
    Ubiquitous Computing
    Social Computing
    Internet of Things

Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems

    Healthcare
    Autonomous Systems
    Transport and Logistics
    Emergency and Disaster Management
    Energy and Utilities Management
    Sustainability and Resource Management
    Games and Entertainment
    e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning
    Smart Cities
    Financial markets
    Legal applications