[agents] EASSS tutorial proposal deadline approaching

[Ulle Endriss]

Dear members of the Agents community,

This is a reminder about the fact that the deadline for submitting a 
tutorial proposal for EASSS is this coming Monday. We are hoping for a 
lot of proposals from you!

This year, EASSS will take place right before IJCAI and in a very 
attractive location (look at some of the pictures on the website!). This 
combination should attract a fair number of students, which in turn 
should make it an attractive place to teach.

The Call for Tutorial Proposals is attached.

All the best,
Ulle Endriss and Nicolas Maudet


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		   * CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS *

	13th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2011)
      (to be held in Girona, Catalonia, Spain *** 11-15 July 2011)

		      Deadline: 31 January 2011

  		   * http://eia.udg.edu/easss2011 *

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The 13th European Agent Systems  Summer School (EASSS) will be held in
the  historic city  of  Girona during  11-15  July 2011,  in the  week
preceding  IJCAI  (the International  Joint  Conference on  Artificial
Intelligence), which will be held  in nearby Barcelona.  As its highly
successful  earlier   incarnations,  EASSS-2011  will   offer  a  rich
programme of both  introductory and advanced courses on  a broad range
of topics  in the  area of Autonomous  Agents and  Multiagent Systems.
The courses are aimed at PhD students, advanced Master's students, and
other young researchers  and will be taught by  leading researchers in
the  field. EASSS  is organised  under  the auspices  of EURAMAS,  the
European Association for Multiagent Systems (www.euramas.org).

We are now  inviting proposals from members of  the research community
who are willing to offer tutorials at EASSS-2011.

We  are interested  in  tutorial  proposals in  all  areas of  current
research in Autonomous Agents and  Multiagent Systems. As a very rough
guideline, any topic that might get covered at the AAMAS conference or
in  the JAAMAS  journal  would also  be  suitable for  EASSS.  We  are
looking for a mix of  tutorials on fundamental and clearly established
topics on  the one hand,  and overviews of  new and emerging  areas of
research on the other. Tutorials should cover an appropriate selection
of  approaches   and  not  specifically  focus  on   the  tutors'  own
contributions.

We  encourage  both well-established  senior  researchers and  younger
colleagues to put in a proposal. Each tutorial is usually given by one
or two  people  (exceptions are,  of  course, possible;  for proposals
by more  than two tutors, please justify  this choice in the  proposal
and explain how you intend to  ensure the coherence of the tutorial).

To be able  to offer this summer school  and to be able to do  so at a
reasonable price for students, we  are dependent on the support of the
research community. To make a modest contribution towards the expenses
of tutors, if needed, EASSS  can provide accommodation for up to three
nights, but unfortunately EASSS cannot cover travel expenses.

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HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
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To submit  a tutorial proposal,  please produce a single  PDF document
covering  the points  listed below  and  submit it  via the  EasyChair
system before 31 January 2011.

Submit here: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easss2011

(1) Title of the proposed tutorial.

(2)  A  short  paragraph  describing  the  tutorial  (100-300  words),
suitable for publication at the EASSS-2011 website.

(3) Additional information on the proposed tutorial. Please include as
much detail  as you see fit. A  detailed list of topics  to be covered
and a short bibliography would be welcome.

(4)  Name,  affiliation, full  contact  details,  and  a link  to  the
personal homepage of each tutor.

(5) A short paragraph on the background of the tutor or tutors (around
100  words per  tutor),  suitable for  publication  at the  EASSS-2011
website.

(6) Experience of tutors:  Please provide details on relevant teaching
experience of the tutor(s).

(7)  Teaching  materials:  Please   indicate  what  kind  of  teaching
materials do you intend to provide.  Note that we will have to receive
any materials to be distributed to the students by EASSS no later than
1 June 2011.

(8) Duration: Tutorials are typically 4 hours long. If you have strong
reasons for wanting to deviate from this standard, please explain this
in your proposal.

(9)  Equipment:  Please  list   any  special  equipment  (beyond  data
projector and blackboard) that you might need.

(10) Any other information you wish to include.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for tutorial proposals: 31 January 2011
Notification of acceptance:      15 March 2011
Teaching materials due:          1 June 2011
Summer school:                   11-15 July 2011

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF EASSS
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EASSS  has been  organised  annually in  different European  locations
since 1999, when it was held in Utrecht. Here are  the websites of the
most recent editions:

* EASSS-2010 in Saint-Etienne: http://easss2010.emse.fr/
* EASSS-2009 in Torino: http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html
* EASSS-2008 in Lisbon: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/easss08/

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CONTACT
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For all  matters concerning the technical programme  of EASSS-2011 and
this  Call for  Tutorial  Proposals, please  contact  Ulle Endriss  or
Nicolas Maudet.  For matters concerning the local  organisation of the
summer school, please contact Didac Busquets.

Didac Busquets: easss2011 at eia.udg.edu
Ulle Endriss:   ulle.endriss at uva.nl
Nicolas Maduet: maudet at lamsade.dauphine.fr

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-- 
Ulle Endriss         http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC)
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