[agents] [EASSS'12] Call for participation

[Laurent Vercouter]

                  (Apologies for cross-posting)

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            *  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - EASSS 2012 *

            14th European Agent Systems Summer School

           Valencia, Spain ---  28th May-1st June 2012

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The 14th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2012) will
be held at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, from
the 28th of May to the 1st of June, 2012,  in the  week preceding  AAMAS
(the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems).

As its highly successful earlier incarnations, EASSS 2012 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).

Registration will soon be open at http://easss2012.webs.upv.es/. The
early registration deadline is April 18th.

Follow us on Twitter to be informed about the latest news regarding
EASSS 2012 (http://twitter.com/easss2012).

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          * STUDENT GRANTS *

Recall that there are several student grant programs to attend
EASSS 2012, offered by different institutions  

Check the details (elegibility, application forms, deadline) at
EASSS 2012 webpage.


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        * EASSS 2012 PROGRAMME *

This is the list of the tutorials that will be offered in this
year's edition of EASSS:

T0. Introduction to Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
    Carles Sierra

T1. Agent-based social simulation
    Tina Balke and Frédéric Amblard

T2. Organization and Environment oriented programming
    Olivier Boissier and Jomi F. Hübner and Alessandro Ricci

T3. Agent oriented programming languages
    Rafael Bordini and Koen Hindriks and Joao Leite

T4. Introduction to the modelling and verification of, and reasoning about multi-agent systems
    Nils Bulling and Jürgen Dix

T5. Cognitive agents for social simulation
    Frank Dignum and Victoria Dignum and Catholijn Jonker

T6. Supporting large-scale, distributed multi-agent systems
    Michel Oey and Sander van Splunter and Martijn Warnier and Frances Brazier

T7. Embodied conversational agents and affective computing
    Alexandre Pauchet and Nicolas Sabouret

T8. Industrial application of multi-agent systems
    Michal Pechoucek

T9. Trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
    Jordi Sabater-Mir and Javier Carbo

T10. Decision making under uncertainty
    Matthijs Spaan and Frans Oliehoek

T11. Normative multi-agent systems
    Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre

T12. Distributed search and constraint handling
    Alessandro Farinelli and Alex Rogers and Meritxell Vinyals

T13. Agent coordination in planning and scheduling
    Cees Witteveen and Bob Huisman

T14. Argumentation for agent societies
    Massimiliano Giacomin and Serena Villata

More information regarding these tutorials is available at the
EASSS 2012 website.

The program also includes a student session, for which a separate call
for papers will be available soon.

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EASSS 2012 organizing committee
easss2012 at dsic.upv.es
http://easss2012.webs.upv.es

Local organization chair:
Vicente Julian: vinglada at dsic.upv.es

Program co-chairs:
Birna van Riemsdijk: m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl
Laurent Vercouter: laurent.vercouter at insa-rouen.fr

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*Laurent Vercouter* Professor in Computer Science
LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, Rouen, France
Ph: (+33) 232 959 986