[agents] Announcement of EASSS-2011 Tutorials + IFAAMAS Travel Grants

[Ulle Endriss]

It is a great pleasure to announce the list of tutorials to be given at
EASSS-2011, the 13th European Agent Systems Summer School, to be held in
Girona during 11-15 July 2011 (i.e., just before IJCAI-2011 in nearby
Barcelona). This promises to be an exciting summer school!

1. Introduction to Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Simon Parsons

2. Agents in Organizations: Autonomy, Regulation and Interaction
Frank Dignum, Huib Alderwereld, Virginia Dignum and Birna van Riemsdijk

3. Logics of Action and Agency
Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini

4. Dialectics in Multiagent Interaction
Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed

5. Argumentation for Agent Societies
Massimiliano Giacomin and Serena Villata

6. Stability in Systems with Self-Interested Agents
Maria Polukarov

7. Multiagent Constraint Satisfaction
Boi Faltings, Thomas Leaute and Brammert Ottens

8. Temporal Constraint Methods for Autonomous Scheduling
Cees Witteveen

9. Agent-Oriented Programming Languages
Mehdi Dastani and Joao Leite

10. Organisation and Environment Oriented Programming
Olivier Boissier, Rafael Bordini, Jomi Hubner and Alessandro Ricci

11. Agent-Based Social Simulation
Frederic Amblard

12. Robots in Multiagent Systems Research
Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons

13. Coordination of Multi-Robot Teams
Luis Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau

14. Agent Technologies for Energy Systems
Alex Rogers

15. Towards Industrial Application of Multiagent Systems
Michal Pechoucek

More information regarding these tutorials will become available at the
EASSS-2011 website next week: http://eia.udg.edu/easss2011/.

Registration will open soon (the early registration deadline is on the 
31st of May). Thanks to support from IFAAMAS students from countries 
that are currently under-represented in agent-related research will be 
able to apply for a travel grant to attend EASSS. These countries 
include Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Belarus, Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, 
Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, 
Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Molodva, Monaco, Montenegro, 
Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, 
Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, 
UAE, Ukraine, The Vatican, and Yemen.

All the best,
Ulle Endriss and Nicolas Maudet
EASSS-2011 Technical Programme Chairs

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Ulle Endriss         http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam    Tel: +31 (0)20 525 6511
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