<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="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: center;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><img id="<ii_15e5cc7e3d8bdbe7>" alt="Inline image 1" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton" apple-inline="yes" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" src="cid:ii_15e5cc7e3d8bdbe7"><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">The <a href="http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: text;">18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System (AAMAS 18)</a> will be held on <b class="">July 10-15</b>, in Stockholm, Sweden and is part of the <b class="">Federated AI Meeting (FAIM)</b>, co-located with the other conferences being IJCAI, ICML, ICCBR and SoCS. </font><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b class="">S</b></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b class="">ocially Interactive Agents</b> </span><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">is one of the tracks at AAMAS 2018. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: center;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><br class="gmail-"></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The <a href="http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/callForPapers/#sociallyInteractiveAgents" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: text;">Socially Interactive Agents (SIA) track</a> invites papers on research topics related to the design, implementation, evaluation and application of social agents. Such agents are capable of interacting with people and each other using social communicative behaviors common to human-human interaction. Example applications include social assistants on mobile devices, pedagogical agents in tutoring systems, non-player characters in interactive games and multimodal interface agents for smart appliances and environments. The goal of the social agents track is to provide an opportunity for continued interaction and cross-fertilization</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> between the AAMAS community and researchers working on social agents.</span></font></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><br class="gmail-"></font></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">SIA welcomes papers that present novel work and contributions on social agent systems, human(s)-agent(s) interaction, applications or evaluations of such systems. Submissions can address innovative, fundamental issues such as behavioral or cognitive models for autonomous social agents, as well as new application areas. </font></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><br class="gmail-"></font></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </font></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><br class="gmail-"></font></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Social agent models:</span><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: center;"><ul class="gmail-" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Reasoning, learning, adaptation and user modeling</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Affect, personality and cultural differences</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Interactive narrative and storytelling</font></li></ul><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Multimodal interaction:</div></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"></span></font><ul class="gmail-" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Verbal and nonverbal perception, analysis and generation</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Interpersonal coordination</font></li></ul><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Social agent architectures:</div></span><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"></span></font></font><ul class="gmail-" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Tools for designing and building social agents</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Ubiquitous architectures</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Portability and reuse standards/measures to support interoperability</font></li></ul><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Evaluation methods and studies:</font></div></span><ul class="gmail-" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: start;"><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Empirical studies on social agents</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Ethical considerations and social impact</font></li><li class="gmail-" style="line-height: 17px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior</font></li></ul><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left;"><font face="georgia, serif" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700;">Applications: <span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal;">Games, education, health, art, marketing and large scale deployments</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700;"><span class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal;"><br class="gmail-"></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><b class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Important Dates</font></b></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Abstract Submission: 10th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12)<br class="gmail-"></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Full Paper Submission: 14th of November 2017 (23:59 UTC-12)</font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Rebuttal Phase: 9th-10th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12)</font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Author Notification: 24th of January 2018 (23:59 UTC-12)</font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><br class="gmail-"></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><b class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Conference Schedule</font></b></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Tutorials/DC: 10th of July, 2018<br class="gmail-"></font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Main Conference: 11th-13th of July, 2018</font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Workshops: 14th-15th of July, 2018</font></div><div class="gmail_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font class="gmail-" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">AAMAS 2018 Conference : July 10-15, 2018</font></div></div></div></font></span></div></body></html>