WESAAC 2025

The Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications (WESAAC) aims to integrate researchers and students at all levels in Agents and Agent Systems and publicize the activities of the various research groups in Brazil, enabling the exchange of knowledge and experiences. The event consists of Workshops and Lectures given by experienced researchers and presentations of Full Papers, Short Papers, and Extended Abstracts. The WESAAC is of great importance as a national event in this area, aiming to prepare future generations of researchers and to disseminate their current projects. Furthermore, WESAAC aims to be a forum for discussing work at all levels, including undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being conducted. The XIX WESAAC is part of the 35th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Papers submitted to the event should address topics related to autonomous agents or multi-agent systems, such as (but not restricted to):

• • Agent architectures and theories (BDI, belief revision, automated reasoning);
  • Agent organizations, societal issues, normative systems, etc.;
  • Agent communication;
  • Agents in embedded and robotic systems;
  • Agent-based software development (programming languages, platforms, tools, methodologies);
  • Applications of agents and multi-agent systems;
  • Automated planning in agent systems;
  • Cooperation/coordination (negotiation, argumentation, reputation);
  • Machine learning in agent systems;
  • Social simulations and agent-based simulation;
  • Specification and verification of multi-agent systems (formal).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information visit the WESAAC page avaliable at https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/wesaac/issue/archive.

CALL FOR PAPERS 

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION

Two separate tracks have been created for paper submission: (i) full papers and (ii) short papers (i.e., extended abstracts).

• • Full papers, reporting work with solid results, must have at most twelve (12) pages, including text, references, appendices, tables, and figures. 
  • Short papers, reporting ongoing work or position papers, must have between six (6) and eight (8) pages. Short papers will be presented orally in plenary sessions or poster sessions.

Articles may be written either in Portuguese or English. Papers written in Portuguese must have titles and abstracts in English. All manuscripts should be prepared using the SBC article style (<https://www.sbc.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/modelosparapublicaodeartigos.zip>), and those that do not follow the formatting guidelines might be rejected without review. 

Papers must be submitted through CMT3 using the following URL: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WESAAC2025

The review process will be double-blind (authors’ names and institutions must be omitted in the submitted papers). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work in an oral presentation or a poster session. All accepted papers will likely be published electronically in the WESAAC Series of the SBC Open Lib – SOL, avaliable at https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/wesaac/issue/archive.

There will be no distinction between papers presented in oral or poster format in the proceedings.

BEST PAPERS

The 3 best research papers from WESAAC 2025 will be awarded with a certificate.

The 3 best papers by undergraduate students will be invited to submit an extended version to the Revista Eletrônica de Iniciação Científica (REIC) <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/reic/about>. 

ATTENTION 

Generative AI models (including Chat-GPT, BARD, LLaMA, Gemini, etc.) or similar LLMs do not meet the article authorship criteria to be accepted into WESAAC 2025. However, we encourage articles that describe research on or involving such advanced AI models and tools. If authors use an LLM in any part of the article writing process, they take full responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and correcting all text.

IMPORTANT DATES

• • Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2025 June 07, 2025
  • Notification to authors: June 25, 2025 
  • Final version deadline: July 25, 2025
  • Author registration: August 1, 2025 

GENERAL CHAIR 

• • Carlos Eduardo Pantoja (CEFET-RJ)
  • Eduardo Augusto Ferreira da Silva (CEFET-RJ)

PROGRAM CHAIRS

• • Nilson Mori Lazarin (CEFET-RJ)
  • Bruno Policarpo Toledo Freitas (CEFET-RJ)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• • Aldo Henrique Dias Mendes (UNIEURO)
  • Ana Regia de Mendonça Neves (IFB)
  • Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão (USP)
  • Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (PUCRS)
  • Aurelio Ribeiro Costa (STF)
  • Bruno Werneck Pinto Hoelz (PF)
  • Carlos Eduardo Pantoja (CEFET RJ)
  • Carolina Gonçalves Abreu (CJF)
  • Célia Ghedini Ralha (UnB)
  • Conceição de Maria Albuquerque Alves (UnB)
  • Diana Francisca Adamatti (UFRG)
  • Felipe Rech Meneguzzi (University of Aberdeen, UK)
  • Fernando Santos (UDESC)
  • Fernando Szimanski (INEP)
  • Gleifer Vaz Alves (UTFPR)
  • Gustavo Alberto Giménez-Lugo (UTFPR)
  • Jerusa Marchi (UFSC)
  • Jaime Sichman (USP)
  • Jomi Fred Hübner (UFSC)
  • João Luis Tavares da Silva (UCS)
  • José Pergentino de Araújo Neto (European Commission)
  • Leonardo Henrique Moreira (ECEME)
  • Mariela Inés Cortés (UECE)
  • Maicon Rafael Zatelli (UFSC)
  • Maiquel de Brito (UFSC)
  • Marilton Snachotene de Aguiar (UFPEL)
  • Rafael Cauê Cardoso (University of Aberdeen, UK)
  • Rafael Heitor Bordini (PUCRS)
  • Rejane Frozza (UNISC)
  • Ricardo Choren (IME)
  • Viviane Torres da Silva (IBM)