[agents] 2nd CFP Student Session at EASSS 2012

[Laurent Vercouter]

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                        CFP: Student Session on
                14th European Agent Systems Summer School

                     takes place in co-location with
                                AAMAS 2012
                     May 28th - June 1st June, Valencia, Spain
                        http://easss2012.webs.upv.es/
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The European Agent Systems Summer School aims to offer a valuable
forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in its field for
the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level.
The success of the summer school series 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.

EASSS attracts about 100 students each year. The school provides a wide
range of state-of-the-art courses given by the most prominent researchers in the area.
A typical course has 4 hours in total and they are broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, whilst also covering the most important contributions
in depth. Courses are expected to take a wide perspective of the research being done
by various groups active in research on the specific topic of the course.

Within this context, the Student Session is designed to encourage student
interaction and feedback from the tutors. By providing the students with a
conference-like setup, both in the presentation and in the review process,
students have the opportunity to prepare their own submission, go through the
selection process (peer review) and possibly present their work to themselves
and their interests to their fellow students as well as internationally leading
experts in the agent field, both from the theoretical and the practical sector.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted paper submissions will be
assigned a 15-20 minute slot for presentation. Typically a presentation will
either detail the intended approach to a problem or ask a specific question,
directed at the audience. In addition, selected submission authors will be given
the opportunity to present their work in form of a poster that will be displayed
at EASSS'12.

As the goal is to provide the speakers with constructive feedback and a means
to be introduced to the community, the competitive elements often found in conferences
(best paper award, best presentation award) are intentionally omitted.The peer review
will focus not on the magnitude of the presented material but on the clarity of the
formulated material or whether or not the posed question is of relevance to a majority
of students. Giving a good presentation is a difficult task, practicing it is the
benefit of this session. The extent to which the audience has understood the details
should be the criterion by which the presentations are judged.

Important dates
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- April 9 - Abstract submission
- April 13 - Submission deadline
- May 7 - Notification to authors
- May 14 - Camera-ready version due
- May 28 - Start of the Summer School


Submission Details
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- Topics should match with the scope of EASSS'12
Summer School.

- Papers should describe student's works at student level.

- Only students can be authors, supervisors are however strongly encouraged
to motivate their students to participate and to supervise the quality of the students' work.

- At least one of the authors will have to register as a participant at
EASSS'12.

- Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length (including references
and appendices), they need to be formatted using the AAMAS style (see
http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es menu point camera ready instructions
for more details) and should be submitted in either .pdf or .ps format.

- Please use the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sseasss12 for your submission.


If you're interested in promoting the EASSS'12 student Session at your in-
stitution feel free to forward or download, print and distribute the flyer.


Student Session PC Chairs
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- Tina Balke, University of Surrey, UK
- Tingting Li, University of Bath, UK
- Miguel Rebollo, Local Organization 
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*Laurent Vercouter* Professor in Computer Science
LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, Rouen, France
Ph: (+33) 232 959 986