[agents] EASSS 2009: call for tutorial proposals

[Mehdi Dastani]

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2009   !!!

The eleventh edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS'09) will be co-located with MALLOW'09 and
will take place at

                University of Torino, Italy
               31 August - 4 September, 2009

          http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the eleventh edition of
the European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very
successful predecessors, EASSS 2009 aims to offer a valuable
forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups
in this field, for the benefit of students and researchers
at both beginner and advanced level. The success of this
summer school is essential not only for the mutual benefit
of research groups, but also in forming future generations
of researchers to maintain the excellence of agents' research
and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal
including: the topic and a justification of its importance
for the field, intended audience and its required background
knowledge, outline of the intended topics, information about
how the course material will be prepared, the tutors and their
experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced), duration
(typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the
importance and quality of the topic description and the
teaching skills of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 19, 2009
Notification:                   May 17, 2009
Material for reader (< 26 pp):  June 28, 2009

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but some variations
are possible. Suggested course should be broad enough to
provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, but it
should also cover the most important contributions in depth.
In general, courses are expected to take a wider perspective
than one specific approach. As an example see the courses
given in 2001 collected in  LNAI 2086 volume. Programs of
previous EASSS editions can be found via
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/easss08/.

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year.
We intend to give a modest contribution towards tutors'
expenses by providing free accommodation, however covering
travel costs is not possible. Please note that EASSS is
co-located with MALLOW 2009 and will take place the week
before that event.

Submissions should be sent to Mehdi Dastani (mehdi at cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2009 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Guido Boella                Torino, Italy
Matteo Baldoni              Torino, Italy
Cristina Baroglio           Torino, Italy

Advisory Board:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)       Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini              Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker            Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz             Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet              Paris, France
Andrea Omicini              Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek            Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Guido Boella (guido at di.unito.it).

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools	
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
   commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
   and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
   multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
   systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency  	
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
   multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling
   in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents	
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems


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Mehdi Dastani
Intelligent Systems Group
Utrecht University
P.O.Box 80.089
3508 TB Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 - 30 - 253 3599
Fax: +31 - 30 - 251 3791
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi