*(We apologize for multiple copies)* Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to the:
*Decision Making in Dynamic Information Environments (DeMADIE) Workshop* http://www.paams.net/workshops/demadie at the *14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS'16)* University of Sevilla (Spain) 1st-3rd June, 2016 www.paams.net *Scope* In multi-agent systems, an agent which is dependent on the arrival of information from other agents may have to suspend processes if communication fails or if the information is simply not available. In most cases, communication is not guaranteed, and even if it were, there may be other factors affecting information transfer (such as the impossibility of or delays in acquiring the information at the source). Furthermore, if there is no knowledge about the state of the world, getting the appropriate response to an event becomes impossible. Moreover, in situations which demand a negotiated outcome, negotiation is impaired by missing information or uncertainty. Thus, reaching an outcome in such situations requires the development of decision frameworks that account for missing, contradictory or uncertain information. *Topics* The topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Distributed decision making frameworks - Coordination mechanisms for rational agents - Problem solving with incomplete information - Default reasoning - Belief revision in multi-agent systems - Argumentation - Semantic models and ontologies for dynamic environments - Models of trust and reputation for agent populations - Decision theory in multi-agent systems - Speculation and generation of scenarios - Communication efficiency in multi-agent systems - Utility measures in problem solving - Optimization of information exchange - Reasoning under uncertainty - Fault tolerant architectures - Applications (reasoning techniques in dynamic environments such as a medical setting, dispute resolution, task scheduling, etc) *Submission Details* *Submitting paper*s Papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. The submission instructions are the same as the general instructions for PAAMS'16. Templates and more details may be found at http://www.paams.net/submission . *Publication* Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings after a careful review process. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be published in the CCIS series of Springer Verlag. *Important Dates* Submission date: 18th January, 2016 Notification date: 22nd February, 2016 Camera-ready deadline: 07th March, 2016 Conference dates: 1st-3rd June, 2016 *New *Special Issue** We are glad to inform that the authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a Special Issue of the *Iberoamerican Journal of Artificial Intelligence *(indexed by Scopus) on Decision Making in Dynamic Environments. http://polar.lsi.uned.es/revista/index.php/ia *Organizing Committee* Tiago Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal Jose Carlos Montoya, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan For any questions please contact us at demadie.works...@gmail.com or Tiago Oliveira directly at tolive...@di.uminho.pt . Best regards, *The Organizing Committee* Tiago Oliveira Jose Carlos Montoya Paulo Novais Ken Satoh
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