<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stacy Marsella and I are co-chairing the Socially Interactive Agents Track (formerly Virtual Agents) at AAMAS 2018 that will be held in Stockholm, July 10-15 co-located with IJCAI and ICML.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our goal in taking on this task is to strengthen and significantly broaden the participation at AAMAS of researchers working on social agents. </div><div class="">To that end, we are interested in submissions that span, for example, the various technologies used in both embodied and non-embodied social agents, </div><div class="">studies in human-agent interaction and the use of virtual agents in applications and research. </div><div class="">A more complete description of the track is in the CFP, available at the following link (feel free to disseminate it to your own contacts): </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/sociallyInteractiveAgentsTrack/" class="">http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/sociallyInteractiveAgentsTrack/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We strongly encourage you to start thinking about submissions to this track. </div><div class="">The submission dates are November, 10 2017 for abstracts and November, 17 for full papers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would also like to encourage the proposal of workshops and demos.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope to see you in Stockholm,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Angelo Cafaro and Stacy Marsella</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>