[agents] WESAAC 2014: Call for Participation

[Viviane Torres da Silva]

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                Call for Participation --- WESAAC-2014
    8th Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications

                 PUCRS -- Porto Alegre, RS -- Brazil
                         28-30th of May 2014
               <http://www.pucrs.br/eventos/wesaac2014>
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************ Invited Talks and Courses ************
- Invited Talks:
  * "Negotiation and Search"
    Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Spain)
  * "Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations"
    Wamberto Vasconcelos (U.Aberdeen, UK)
  * "Argumentation for the Social Web"
    Joπo Leite (U.Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
  * "Multi-Agent Oriented Coordination"
    Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St. Etienne, France)
  * "Para uma Noção de Modularidade em Sistemas Multiagentes"
    A.C. Rocha Costa (FURG)

- Invited Courses:
  * "Electronic Institutions"
    Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Spain)
  * "Normative Multi-Agent Systems"
    Wamberto Vasconcelos (U.Aberdeen, UK)
  * "Agent-Oriented Programming"
    João Leite (U.Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
  * "Organization Oriented Programming"
    Olivier Boissier (EMSE - St. Etienne, France)
  * "Programação de Sistemas Multi-Agentes"
    Jomi F. Hubner (UFSC)
  * "Engenharia de Software Orientada a Agentes"
    Anarosa Brandão (USP)
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Motivation
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Many current computational systems no longer depend on human
intervention to operate in complex dynamic environments. Some of the
key features that allow such systems to operate autonomously include
the ability to make rational decisions and to react to changes in a
timely way. In that respect, agent systems and multi-agent
environments provide a computing paradigm that supports the
development of intelligent systems that are able to cope with the
complexities associated with such dynamic scenarios.


Aims
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The area of agent-based systems is widely known and has numerous
papers published internationally every year. However, nationally there
are few events in this area and no other national event also provides
tutorials and short courses specifically on the main topics of
research within autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. WESAAC is
therefore of great importance as a national event in this area, aiming
to both prepare future generations of Brazilian researchers and to
disseminate the current projects of Brazilian researchers. WESAAC aims
to be a forum for the discussion of work at all levels, including
undergraduate, MSc, and PhD projects currently being
conducted. Fundamentally, WESAAC is the best opportunity for Brazilian
undergraduate and specially postgraduate students to attend courses by
some of the most prominent researchers working in this area throughout
the world.


Committees
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General Chair: Rafael H. Bordini (PUCRS)

Programme Committee Chair: Viviane Torres da Silva (UFF)

Local Chair: Felipe Meneguzzi (PUCRS)

WESAAC Steering Committee:
Rejane Frozza (UNISC)
Joπo Luis Tavares da Silva (UCS)
Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG)
Gustavo Alberto Gimenez Lugo (UTFPR)
Jomi Fred Hubner (UFSC)