Call for workshop proposals


The PRIMA2019 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program, to be held in Turin, Italy, on 28th to 29th October 2019.

PRIMA2019 workshops provide the ideal setting for participants to discuss technical topics in an atmosphere that promotes active exchange of ideas. Researchers can delve deeply into research topics, focus on application issues, discuss the most advanced research in agent-based and multi-agent systems.

Every year our workshops attract an increasing number of top-tier researchers in the field, proving to be the ideal prelude for the main conference.

We encourage proposers to aim for a program that is both varied and interesting. Interdisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are especially welcome.

Workshop formats that are innovative and go beyond the usual presentation of listing accepted papers will be highly regarded, such as: Panel discussions, demo sessions, invited talks. Post-proceedings of PRIMA workshops are traditionally published as a Springer LNAI volume.

Proposal Submission Requirements

Workshop proposals for PRIMA2019 should include:

  • Title;
  • Length: Full day, or half day;
  • Specific topics to be addressed and specific goals;
  • Relevance and significance of this workshop to the main conference;
  • The distinctive characteristics of the workshop, including workshop theme, how the workshop shall be run;
  • A history of the workshop, if not being offered for the first time;
  • Estimated paper submission volume and paper acceptance rate;
  • Expected attendance;
  • Indication if post-proceedings or a journal special issue arrangement for the published workshop papers is in process;
  • A draft workshop call for papers with:
    • Names, affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the workshop organisers, who should be experts in the related topics (preferably from multiple institutions);
    • The paper selection process;
    • A list of potential Program Committee members and their affiliations;
    • Important dates.

Workshop proposals should not exceed five single spaced pages and should be submitted as a PDF file to be sent to Francesco Olivieri (francesco.olivieri@data61.csiro.au) and Cristina Baroglio (cristina.baroglio@unito.it). Submissions will be acknowledged via email a few days past the proposal deadline.

Important dates

The following deadlines are important for the workshop organisers:

  • 27th May 2019: Workshop proposal submissions due EXPIRED
  • 3th June 2019: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals
  • Workshop webpages and 1st cfp due: asap after notification
  • 8th September 2019: Workshop paper submissions due
  • 30th September 2019: Workshop paper notifications due
  • 15th October 2019: Workshop proceedings due
  • 28th and 29th October 2019: Workshop date

These deadlines are somewhat flexible, but please consider as constraints that the paper submission deadline should be after conference author notification, whilst acceptance notification should be before the conference early registration deadline. The notification for the conference papers is scheduled for 25th August 2019.