On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are honoured to introduce you to the 4th International Conference on Agents (ICA 2019).

Intelligent agents are software entities which can carry out some actions on behalf of clients with some degree of autonomy. Through sensing the status of environment, agents perform operations based on possessed knowledge in order to change or influence the environment towards their goals. A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a group or society of agents, and agents interact with others in the group cooperatively and/or competitively in order to reach their individual or common goals. In general, agents possess five common properties which are autonomy (some level of self-control), adaptivity (the ability to learn and improve performance with experience), reactivity (the ability to perceive the environment and to respond in a timely fashion to changes that occur), proactivity (the ability not only to act simply in response to their environment but also to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative) and sociability (the ability to interact, communicate and work with other agents). Research on agent techniques and MASs mainly focus on improving existing or invent innovative frameworks, models, mechanisms, approaches and algorithms to improve agents’ effectiveness and efficiency in those five aspects for advanced autonomous problem solving abilities in complex environments.

The ICA 2019 proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS

All accepted papers in the regular oral presentation / poster will be published in conference proceedings by CPS. They will be indexed by EI, SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP and ISI. Selected ICA’19 papers will be invited for expansion and publication in international Journals.

We envision a future society where computational agents and humans (physical agents) are living, working and snuggling with each other. Harmonious collaboration among computational agents and humans are of importance in the next-generation society. ICA’19 will call for papers related, but not limited to the following topics:

Decision making techniques
Multi-agent communication and interaction protocols
Negotiation and argumentation
Game theory and auctions
Social Computing
Cooperation, collaboration and coordination mechanisms
Self-organization and self-adaptation
Computational Reasoning
Machine learning
Complex systems and system dynamics
Collective Intelligence
Programming languages
Internet of things, agents, and people
Systems designs, development and implementation
Human and multi-agent systems interaction
Social science and humanities
Ethical, legal, and social issues
Future visions and grand challenges

Agent technique and multi-agent system are very important fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI). We believe that ICA2019 will attract attentions from not only AI researchers, but also domain experts and industrial investigators who are interested in the applications of AI techniques

Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be conferred at banquet