[agents] European Agent Systems Summer School 2013: Call for Participation

[Black, Elizabeth]

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			*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *

		15th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS-2013)

		to be held at the Department of Informatics,
                 King's College London, United Kingdom

		1-5 July 2013

  *http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/  *easss13 at kcl.ac.uk

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ABOUT EASSS-2013 ***
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Since 1999, the annual European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) has
provided a forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in the
field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, with the aim of benefiting
mainly graduate students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level.

The 15th European Agent Systems Summer School will be held at King's College
London, UK, from the 1st to 5th of July 2013. EASSS-2013 will be co-located
with the 15th Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence on the topic of
Argumentation (ACAI-2013http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/acai13/); ACAI is a
bi-annual summer school for graduate students and young researchers in AI,
sponsored by ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence).

As was the case with its earlier editions, EASSS-2013 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
(http://www.euramas.org/).

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  * REGISTRATION *

Registration is now open!

Deadline for early registration: 20 May 2013

Early registration: £210 per attendee.

Late registration: £250 per attendee.

Registration includes:

  Electronic copy of all tutorials. Coffee breaks and lunches for all five
days. Gala dinner.

For further details on registration please visit the EASSS 2013 website:

http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/registration.html

Note: registration does*NOT*  include accommodation. A limited number
of rooms have been reserved in a student halls of residences that can
be booked directly for around £50 a night. For details of how to book this
accommodation, and of other student accommodation in London see the EASSS
2013 website:

http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/accommodation.html

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  * STUDENT GRANTS *

Some grants are available for students attending EASSS 2013.

Details of these grants and of how to apply for them is on the EASSS
2013 website:

http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/grants.html

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  * EASSS 2013 PROGRAMME *

Tutorials have been organised into themes. Students are able to attend
as many or as few tutorials from a particular theme as they like, there
is no requirement to attend all tutorials from a theme. This will allow
students access to a wide range of topics from agent research while at
the same time giving them the opportunity top do somewhat deeper into a
specific area of research if they want to.


  Theme: Agents, from research to applications

  1. Introduction to agent systems
	by Michael Luck

  2. Autonomous intelligent agents in action: Agents on earth and in space
	by Sara Bernardini

  3. Agent and multi-agent research methodologies
	by Michael Rovatsos


  Theme: Agent systems development

  4. Agent-oriented programming
	by Raphael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Koen Hendriks and João Leite

  5. Agent-based modelling and computational economics
	by Steve Phelps and Neil Rayner

  6. Normative multi-agent systems by Wamberto Vasconcelos


  Theme: Agreement technologies

  7. Voting theory
	by Ulle Endriss

  8. Dialogue
	by Simon Parsons

  9. Negotiation
	by Nicolas Maudet


  Theme: Game theory

  10. Game theory for computer science
	 by Michael Wooldridge

  11. Reasoning about cooperation
	 by Nils Bulling and Paolo Turrini


  Theme: Planning for agents

  12. Introduction to AI planning
	 by Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles

  13. Decision making under uncertainty
	 by  Mathijs Spaan and Frans Oliehoek

  Theme: Verification of multi-agent systems

  14. Model checking multi-agent systems
	 by Alessio Lomuscio and Franco Raimondi

  15. Verifying agent-based autonomous systems
  	 by Louise Dennis and Michael Fisher


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STUDENT SESSION, SUBMISSION DEADLINE 10 MAY ***
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Students are encouraged to submit papers on their work to the Student
Session, which will be held on the Friday afternoon of the school and to
which all attendees and tutors are encouraged to attend. The Student Session
also encourages submissions from students attending the Advanced Course on
Artificial Intelligence, which is on the topic of Argumentation and is
co-located with EASSS-2013 (ACAI-2013http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/acai13/)

See the website for the call for papers.
http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/studentsession.html

Note that authors of accepted papers will be expected to also present their work
as a poster at the poster session.
http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/postersession.html
  

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CONTACT ***
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For all matters concerning the technical program of EASSS-2013, please contact
Paul Harrenstein or Peter Novak.
For matters concerning the local organisation of the summer school, please contact
Elizabeth Black or Sanjay Modgil.

Paul Harrenstein:paul.harrenstein at cs.ox.ac.uk  
Peter Novak:P.Novak at tudelft.nl
Elizabeth Black:elizabeth.black at kcl.ac.uk  
Sanjay Modgil:sanjay.modgil at kcl.ac.uk
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-- 
Dr Elizabeth Black | Lecturer
Planning, Agents and Intelligent Systems Group
Department of Informatics | King's College London
Strand Building S6.21 | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS
Tel: 020 7848 2694 | Email: elizabeth.black at kcl.ac.uk
Website: http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/lizblack/