EUMAS 2024

EUMAS 2024 welcomes original, unpublished papers including improved versions of extended abstracts or rejected papers from AAMAS, AAAI and IJCAI 2023. The submission should describe work that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or journal.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single blind fashion. Submission length depends upon the track that you submit to. Additional pages may be used for references and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix. It should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format. For templates and instructions for authors, see Conference proceedings guidelines . Authors must submit their papers through the EUMAS 2024 Easychair submission site as a single PDF file.

This year, EUMAS is accepting submissions across 4 tracks:

• Main Track (15 pages + references)

  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Action and Planning, Adaptation and Learning; Agent Architectures; Agent Programming Languages; Agent Development Methodologies and Tools; Agent-Based Simulations and Modeling; Agent Organizations and Institutions; Agent-oriented Software Engineering; Agents and Complex Systems; Applications of Multi-agent Systems; Argumentation; Automated negotiation; Biologically inspired approaches; Cognitive Models; Collective and Swarm Intelligence; Collective Intentionality; Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination; Computational Social Choice; Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains; Economic Models; Electronic Commerce; Ethical behavior of multi-agent systems; Formal Modelling; Game-Theoretic Methods; Human-Agent Interaction; Logics for Multi-Agent Systems; Logics for Strategic Reasoning; Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems; Multi-Agent Learning; Multi-Robot Systems; Negotiation; Self-organization; Semantic Web Agents; Social Networks; Socio-technical Systems; Theories of Agency; Trust and Reputation; Verification; Virtual Agents; Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems

• Agents and Ethics (15 pages + references)

  This track is focussed on the implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms in various autonomous decision-making settings. Depending on the context of the agent (software / hardware), the kinds of values (or value-conflicts) that are encountered could be quite varied. The multiplicity and agency of the stakeholders involved (from highly trained human-machine teams to a cohort of elderly / children), also affect the possible value considerations deeply. This track aims to provide a venue for discussions of problems, possible solution-concepts, best practices, benchmarks, related to machine ethics.

  Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following themes / questions:

  • What kinds of values and value-conflicts are (in)expressible in algorithmic form?
  • Can ethical behaviour be guaranteed or verified in computational media?
  • Implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms founded on non-western ethical traditions
  • Can artificial moral decision-making be decoupled from mere implementation of normative ethical theories?
  • Privacy and Trust relationships between humans and machines in the presence of hybrid actions
  • Implementation of ethical reasoning in logic-based methods
  • Representation of ethical principles in AI agents
  • Machine-learning based approaches to ethical reasoning
  • Development of machine ethics in cognitive robot programs
  • Robot learning for ethical reasoning
  • Integration of symbolic and neural information systems for ethical reasoning
  • Development of formal frameworks for ethical decision-making
  • Techniques for explaining the ethical reasoning of AI agents
  • Frameworks for ethical collaboration between humans and AI agents
  • Building trust in intelligent systems through ethical design and interaction

• Agent Toolkits (15 pages + reference)

  This track aims to provide a forum for researchers that are involved in developing agent/MAS toolkits and platforms, or that are using them for the development of applications, to exchange ideas, make proposals, suggest challenges, reports interesting use cases and so on - any aspect that could be of interest in the engineering and using Agent Toolkits.

• Demonstrators (5 pages + references)

  This track aims to provide opportunities for participants from academia and industry to present their latest developments in agent-based systems. Demonstrations of interest include both applications of multi-agent systems and tools that support developers in the specification, design, implementation and testing of agent systems.

	Monday 26th August	Tuesday 27th August	Wednesday 28th August
8:30	Registration
9:00		Keynote 2: Julian Padget
9:30	Welcome
10:00	Keynote 1: Franziska Klugl	HUMAN	EMAS + APPS 1
10:30
11:00	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
11:30	MABS	COINE	EMAS + APPS 2
12:00
12:30	LEARN
13:00
13:30	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
14:00
14:30	KRRP	Agents & Ethics Special Track	Agents Toolkits Special Track
15:00
15:30
16:00
	Demo Pitch (last 20 mins)
16:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
17:00	DEMOS	EURAMAS Meeting	Agent Toolkits Special Track
17:30
	Welcome Reception	Social Event/Dinner

Detailed Programme

Invited Talks

• Franziska Klugl: Towards More Credible Agent-Based Simulations
  Abstract: Agent-based simulation is widely recognized as a well-established application of multi-agent systems. However, in many fields—such as epidemiology and economics—where other modeling and simulation paradigms are standard, there is still hesitation in accepting agent-based approaches. In newer application areas like Multi-Robot Systems and Machine Learning, where simulations are often used as proxies for real systems, quality standards emerged that need to be met. In this talk, I will explore, drawing on my own experiences and those of others, why the credibility of agent-based models and their simulation results continues to be a challenge, despite decades of development and application. I will also present ideas on how to address this credibility problem.
• Julian Padget: Governing complex commons: an accidental transdisciplinary tour
  Abstract: We all know a complex system when we see one :) and as computer scientists we might pause and wonder about what makes it work.
  Multiagent systems are our complex system playground and one approach we use to try to govern them is norms. Not that norms are that easy to write or test or change. Despite this, much has been written in recent years about more abstract notions of governance for AI, drawing on ethics and even morality. This in turn has led to a focus on values, which can be seen as a bridge between ethics and norms, being more concrete than ethics but more abstract than norms. But, which values?
  If values are the answer, how do we engineer socio-technical systems that are capable of reflecting what stakeholders want now and in the future? Values themselves are more problematic than norms. At least norms can be codified as rules, although that process is hard and eventually messy (in my experience). We take the view that values are bit like constants: they don't change but their importance does. So, depending on the context, it is stakeholders' preferences over values determine what it means for system behaviour to be aligned with stakeholder values. Thus we belatedly arrive at Stuart Russell's 2014 observation that "we need to build intelligence that is provably aligned with human values".
  Taking some diversions for perspectives from outside computer science - power-train design, public policy and immunotherapy - we will sketch out some ideas, looking at both process and product, for realising future socio-technical systems - in which agents are key building blocks - where the problem (for us) is how to achieve continuous alignment against changing stakeholder value preferences.

Accepted Papers

Accepted papers are listed below, organised by session

MABS

• MAiS: Exploiting JADE as a Multi-Agent simulator of the Immune System
  Sanchayan Bhunia, Angelo Ferrando, Viviana Mascardi and Chiara Vitale
• Introducing data synchronization policies for distributed agent-based model using proxies
  Lucas Grosjean, Paul Breugnot, Alexis Drogoul, Benedicte Herrmann, Christophe Lang, Nicolas Marilleau, Laurent Philipppe and Nghi Quang Huynh
• Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Price Competition in the Danish Pharmaceutical Market
  Ruhollah Jamali and Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

LEARN

• Adversarial Search & Deep Learning for Strategic Settlement Placement in the “Settlers of Catan”
  Diamantis Rafail Papadam and Georgios Chalkiadakis
• Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Reinforcement Learning Scenarios
  Saeid Rezaei and Kenneth N. Brown

KRRP

• A Logic of Actual Cause for Nondeterministic Dynamic Domains
  Maryam Rostamigiv, Shakil Khan, Yves Lespérance and Mriana Yadkoo
• Temporal Truth in the Limit: LTL over Potentially Inifnite Traces and Yablo's Paradox
  Michał Tomasz Godziszewski, Davide Catta and Aniello Murano
• ATL for Dynamic Gaming Environments
  Marco Aruta, Aniello Murano and Salvatore Romano
• Responsibility in a Multi-Value Strategic Setting
  Timothy Parker, Umberto Grandi and Emiliano Lorini
• Parameter Synthesis for Families of Markov Chains with an Application to Multi-Agent Systems Privacy
  Francesco Spegni, Luca Spalazzi, Roberto Rosetti and Aniello Murano

DEMOS

• Do you want to play a game? Learning to play Tic-Tac-Toe in Hypermedia Environments
  Katharine Beaumont and Rem Collier
• Systematic Experimentation Using Scenarios in Agent Simulation: Going Beyond Parameter Space
  Vivek Nallur, Pedram Aghaei and Graham Finlay
• VITAMIN: A Tool for Model Checking of MAS
  Angelo Ferrando and Vadim Malvone
• Space Debris Removal using Nano-Satellites controlled by Low-Power Autonomous Agents
  Dennis Christmann, Juan F. Gutierrez, Sthiti Padhi, Patrick Plörer, Aditya Thakur, Simona Silvestri and Andres Gomez

HUMAN

• Influence of Language Warmth on User Adoption of Agent Recommendations for Multi-Arm Bandits
  Selim Karaoglu, Marina Katoh, Titash Majumdar, Ethan Beaird, Feyza Hafizoglu and Sandip Sen
• Using Agent Interventions to Reduce User Procrastination Tendencies
  Ethan Beaird, Feyza Hafızoğlu and Sandip Sen

COINE

• Search versus Search for Collapsing Electoral Control Types
  Benjamin Carleton, Michael C. Chavrimootoo, Lane A. Hemaspaandra, David E. Narváez, Conor Taliancich and Henry B. Welles
• Exploiting Peer Trust and Semantic Similarities in the Assignment Assessment Process
  Jairo Alejandro Lefebre Lobaina, Athina Georgara and Carles Sierra
• A Study of the Dynamics of the Average in a Residual Gossip Protocol
  Federico Bergenti, Stefania Monica, Gloria Tamboroni and Franco Zambonelli
• Rules2Lab: from Prolog Knowledge-Base, to Learning Agents, to Norm Engineering
  Peter Fratrič, Nils Holzenberger and David Restrepo Amariles

Agents & Ethics Special Track

COMING SOON...

EMAS & APPS

• Can Proof Assistants Verify Multi-Agent Systems?
  Julian Alfredo Mendez and Timotheus Kampik
• Cost-effective, MAS-based, reefer system at container terminals
  Manolis Doudounakis, Nikolaos Spanoudakis and Fotios Kanellos
• Towards Agents’ Embodiment in Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems
  Matteo Castellucci, Samuele Burattini, Andrei Ciortea, Jérémy Lemée, Danai Vachtsevanou, Alessandro Ricci and Simon Mayer
• Learnings from Implementation of a BDI Agent-based Battery-less Wireless Sensor
  Ganesh Ramanathan, Andres Gomez and Simon Mayer
• Putting Context into Hypermedia MAS
  Alexandru Sorici and Adina Magda Florea
• Protocol Design Patterns for Statecharts-Based Open MAS Development
  Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Charilaos Akasiadis, Georgios Kechagias and Georgios Chalkiadakis
• CommonHealth: multi-agent evaluation of blockchain-based patient-centred health data networks
  Mark Matthews, Rem Collier and Evan Spendlove

Agent Toolkits Special Track

• VEsNA: From Virtual Environments via Natural language Agents to the Metaverse and Beyond
  Angelo Ferrando, Andrea Gatti and Viviana Mascardi
• Belief Revision: The Good, The Bad, and JavaScript
  Timotheus Kampik
• A Software Suite for Implementing Multiagent Systems Based on Protocols
  Amit Chopra, Samuel Christie and Munindar P. Singh
• Yggdrasil: An Artifact-based Framework for Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems
  Andrei Ciortea, Matteo Castellucci, Kai Schultz, Jérémy Lemée, Danai Vachtsevanou, Fabien Gandon, Simon Mayer, Valentin Berger, Samuele Burattini, Alessandro Ricci and Olivier Boissier
• Ten Years of SARL: What’s Next?
  Sebastian Rodriguez, Stéphane Galland and Nicolas Gaud
• Feasibility Study on Using Agent Behaviours for Event-Driven Programming in Jadescript
  Federico Bergenti and Stefania Monica
• Better Tools for a Mainstream BDI through JaKtA
  Martina Baiardi, Samuele Burattini, Giovanni Ciatto and Danilo Pianini
• Jason+BSPL: Including Communication Protocols in Jason
  Matteo Baldoni, Samuel H. Christie V, Amit Chopra and Munindar P. Singh
• Exceptions and Accountability for Robust Applications of JaCaMo
  Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio and Stefano Tedeschi
• Agents Are All You Need: Platformless Programming with Jadex V
  Lars Braubach, Kai Jander and Alexander Pokahr
• Language Level Support for Learning and Explaining in BDI Agents
  Katharine Beaumont and Rem Collier

Welcome Reception: UCD University Club

COMING SOON

Social Event: Celtic Nights @ Arlington Hotel

The conference dinner will take place at the Arlington Hotel a historic venue in the centre of Dublin. The dinner will include traditional Irish food followed by an Irish Music and Dance experience. Further details can be found on the Celtic Nights website. The dinner will commence @ 6pm and the show @ 8pm (ending around 10pm). Afterwards there will be an opportunity to listen to live music until later into the evening.