Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become the international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.


Proceedings of PAAMS 2023 (Main track) are available:

Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection

21st International Conference, PAAMS 2023, Guimarães, Portugal, July 12–14, 2023, Proceedings

Editors: Philippe Mathieu, Frank Dignum, Paulo Novais, Fernando De La Prieta

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Proceedings of PAAMS 2023 (Workshops) are available:

Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection

International Workshops of PAAMS 2023, Guimaraes, Portugal, July 12–14, 2023, Proceedings

Editors: Dalila Durães, Alfonso González-Briones, Marin Lujak, Alia El Bolock, João Carneiro

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Proceedings of previous editions are available:

https://link.springer.com/conference/paams

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General deadlines

  • General deadline

    15th March, 2024
    5th April, 2024

  • Demonstrations deadline

    22nd March, 2024
    12th April, 2024

  • Notification of acceptance

    26th April, 2024
    3rd May, 2024

  • Camera-Ready papers

    17th May, 2024

  • Conference Celebration

    26th-28th June, 2024

Accommodation grants

BISITE Research Group (bisite.usal.es) offers 20 grants/awards to doctoral and young doctors.

Special Issues

The scientific committee of the co-located conferences in collaboration with the guest editors will select the best papers from those presented in the conferences to be considered for publication in the following Special Issues:

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 1989 - 1660, JCR (2022): 3,6 (Q3))

Special Issue on the Journal Sensors: “Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing Technologies for Smart Cities and Rural Areas: Sensing and Information Management Technologies” published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2022): 3.9 (Q1))

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue “Blockchain Applications in the Metaverse for Smart Cities” published in MDPI Smart Cities Journal (ISSN: 2624-6511, JCR (2022): 6.4 (Q1))

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Advanced Architectures for Hybrid Edge Analytics Models on Adaptive Smart Areas" published in MDPI Electronics Journal (ISSN: 2079-9292, JCR (2022): 2.9 (Q2))

Special Issue on the Journal Future Internet: “Deep Learning in Recommender Systems” published in MDPI Future Internet Journal (ISSN: 1999-5903, JCR (2022): 3.4)

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue “Security in the Internet of Things (IoT)” published in MDPI Future Internet Journal (ISSN: 1999-5903, JCR (2022): 3.4)

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue “Advancements in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Digital Twins” published in MDPI Systems Journal (ISSN: 2079-8954, JCR (2022): 1.9 (Q2))

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, JCR (2022): 1.4, JCI (2022): 0.09 (Q4)) indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database.

To Be Updated

Demonstration Award

The best demo paper in PAAMS'24 will be awarded by AIR Institute with 1000€ and trip to visit its headquarters (trip & accommodation).

An extended and improved version of the demo paper will be published in the Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ADCAIJ) journal.

More information: /open-calls/call-demonstrations

PAAMS'23 awards information

First Award: "Cognitive Assistant for Enhanced eHealth Monitoring" by Jaime A. Rincon, Cédric Marco-Detchart, and Vicente Julian

Second Award: "Extended Green Cloud - Modeling Cloud Infrastructure with Green Energy Sources" by Zofia Wrona, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, and Stanisław Krzyżanowski

Third Award: "Energy community integration of a smart home based on an open source multiagent system" by Bruno Ribeiro, Ricardo Faia, Luis Gomes, and Zita Vale

2023 Electronics
MDPI Best papers

"Pre-processing techniques and model aggregation for plant disease prevention" by Cédric Marco-Detchart, Jaime A. Rincon, Vicente Julian, and Carlos Carrascosa

"Cognitive reinforcement for enhanced post construction aiming fact-check spread" by Maria Araujo Barbosa, Francisco S. Marcondes, and Paulo Novais

"Dynamic parameterization of metaheuristics using a multi-agent system for the optimization of electricity market participation" by João Carvalho, Tiago Pinto, Juan M. Home-Ortiz, Brigida Teixeira, Zita Vale, and Ruben Romero

"Agrobots architecture and Agrobots-Sim simulator for dynamic agri-robot coordination" by Jorge Gutierrez-Cejudo, Marin Lujak, and Alberto Fernandez

MDPI Electronics Best Paper Awards
MDPI Systems Best Paper Awards

2023 Systems
MDPI Best papers

First Award: "Implementing a Blockchain-Powered Metadata Catalog in Data Mesh Architecture" by Anton Dolhopolov, Arnaud Castelltort, and Anne Laurent

Second Award: "Intelligent Systems in Healthcare: an Architecture proposal" by António Chaves, Larissa Montenegro, Hugo Peixoto, António Abelha, Luís Gomes, and José Machado

Third Award: "A Quantitative Methodology to Support Local Governments in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Actions" by Nikos Dimitropoulos, Elissaios Sarmas, Marcelo Lampkowski, and Vangelis Marinakis