[agents] Call For Papers - PhD Mentoring of the 14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2016)

[Alexander Pokahr]

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Call for papers for the
*PhD Mentoring of the 14th German Conference on Multiagent System 
Technologies (MATES 2016)*

=== Overview ===

Conference Date: September 27 - 30, 2016
Conference Location: Klagenfurt, Austria
PhD Short Paper Submission (up to 6 pages LNCS):    May 16, 2016
Web page: http://www.dfki.de/mates2016/html/phd_mentoring.html


=== Details ===

The MATES PhD mentoring session (doctoral consortium) is meant to 
support PhD students working in the area of intelligent agents or 
multi-agent systems. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages 
of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in an academic 
professional environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD 
students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced 
researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work 
and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be 
assigned a member of the MATES doctoral consortium, who is an 
experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for 
personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring session.

The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are

- to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion 
on their work from experienced researchers and their peers.
- to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the 
field of multi-agent systems.
- to get advice for their (academic) career.
- to provide networking opportunities.

Paper Submission:

Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should 
provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work:

- Motivation
- State of the Art
- Methodical approach
- Preliminary results/findings (optional
- Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor

PhD short papers are up to 6 pages long, written in English and 
formatted with Springer LNCS style. The selection process takes into 
account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be 
peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee.

The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to 
pokahr at informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Presentation and Publication:

All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral 
presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session.  In addition, a 
selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished 
work mature enough for publication will be included in the  MATES 
proceedings.

Important Dates:

     PhD Short Paper Submission:    May 16, 2016
     PhD Short Paper Acceptance Notification:    June 6, 2016
     Camera-Ready Paper (only for selected papers) :  June 27, 2016
     PhD Mentoring Session:  September 27, 2016

Program Committee of Doctoral Consortium:

     Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg)
     Jan Ole Berndt (University of Trier)
     Nils Bulling (Delft University of Technology)
     Maria Ganzha (University of Gdan´sk)
     Vladimir Gorodetsky (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and 
Automation)
     Axel Hahn (University of Oldenburg)
     Franziska Klügl (Örebro University)
     Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal)
     Andrea Omicini (Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna)
     Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos)
     Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
     Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC)
     Jürgen Sauer (University of Oldenburg)
     René Schumann (HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western 
Switzerland)
     Matthias Thimm (Universität Koblenz-Landau)
     Ingo J. Timm (University of Trier)
     Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen)
     Michael Weyrich (Universität Siegen)