Conference Link: http://www.icaart.org

Foreword: This book contains the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2021). The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It has also the “in cooperation” status with the following organizations: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI), IberoAmerican Society of Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), and Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP). The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception, Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing. This year ICAART was, exceptionally, held as a web-based event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from 4 – 6 February, 2021. ICAART 2021 received 298 paper submissions from 53 countries, including special sessions, only 24% of which have been accepted as full papers, showing the intention of preserving a high-quality forum for the next editions of this conference. The meeting is complemented with the Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (NLPinAI), the Special Session on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities (ARTIDIGH), and the Special Session on Super Distributed and Multi-agent Intelligent Systems (SDMIS). A Tutorial on “A functional theory framework for neural networks that includes training data with an introduction to TensorFlow 2.0 and Keras” will be given by Umberto Michelucci (TOELT LLC; University of Portsmouth, Switzerland). The conference program includes four invited talks delivered by internationally distinguished speakers, namely: Gerhard Widmer (Institute for Computational Perception Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz and LIT | AI Lab, Linz Institute of Technology, Austria), Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy), Guy Van den Broeck (UCLA, United States), and Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR, Italy). As recognition for the best submissions and the best student contributions, several awards based on the combined marks of paper reviewing, as assessed by the Program Committee, and the quality of the presentation, as assessed by session chairs at the conference venue, are conferred at the closing session of the conference. We would like to express our thanks to all participants. First of all, to the authors, whose quality work forms the essence of this conference. Next, we thank all the members of the program committee and the auxiliary reviewers for their diligence and expert reviewing. Of course, we owe our sincere gratitude to the invited speakers for their excellent contribution in sharing their knowledge and vision. Finally, special thanks go to all the members of the INSTICC team whose collaboration was fundamental for the success of this conference. We hope to meet you again next year for the 14th ICAART, details of which will soon be available at the website. (More)

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