Agent Theories and Models:

• Logic and Game Theory

• Logics for agents and multi-agent systems

• Formal models of agency

• Belief-Desire-Intention theories and models

• Cognitive models

• Models of emotions

Communication and Argumentation:

• Commitments

• Communication languages and protocols

• Speech act theory

• Multi-agent reasoning

• Deductive, rule-based and logic-based argumentation

• Argumentation-based dialogue and protocols

Agent Cooperation:

• Biologically-inspired approaches and methods

• Collective intelligence

• Distributed problem solving

• Teamwork, team formation, teamwork analysis

• Coalition formation (non-strategic)

• Human-robot/agent interaction

• Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction

• Multi-robot systems

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:

• Ontologies for agents

• Reasoning in agent-based systems

• Single and multi-agent planning and scheduling

• Trust and reputation

Agent Societies and Societal issues:

• Organizations and institutions

• Socio-technical systems

• Normative systems

• Values in MAS (privacy, safety, security, transparency,…)

• Monitoring agent societies

• Architectures for social reasoning

• Trust and reputation

• Value-sensitive design of multi-agent systems

• Policy, regulation and legislation

Humans and Agents:

• Human-robot/agent interaction

• Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction

• Agents competing against humans

• Agent-based analysis of human interactions

• Agents for improving human cooperative activities

Learning and adaptation:

• Reward structures for learning

• Evolutionary algorithms

• Co-evolutionary algorithms

• Multiagent learning

• Learning agent capabilities (agent models, communication, observation)

• Learning agent-to-agent interactions (negotiation, trust, coordination)

Agents & Mainstream Computing:

• Service-oriented architectures

• Mobile agents

• Autonomic computing

• P2P, web services, grid computing, ...

Agent-based simulation:

• Social simulation

• Simulation techniques tools and platforms

• Complex systems

• Validation of simulation systems

• Modelling for agent based simulation

• Interactive simulation

• Emergent behaviour

• Analysis of agent based simulations

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems:

• Modelling and specification languages

• Programming languages and frameworks for agents and multi-agent systems

• Development techniques, tools, and platforms

• Methodologies for agent-based systems

• Verification, fault tolerance and resilience of multi-agent systems

Verification and validation of agent-based systems:

• Testing of agent-based systems, including model based testing

• Verification of agent-based systems, including model checking

• Synthesis of agent-based systems

Systems and organization:

• Autonomic computing

• Complex systems

• Self-organization

• Novel agent and multiagent applications

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