[agents] 18th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) -- Early registration deadline extended

Nils Bulling - EWI N.Bulling at tudelft.nl
Sun May 29 05:11:34 EDT 2016 

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                       * SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *
                    
                  !! Early Registration Deadline extended !!

                 18th European Agent Systems Summer School

                               (EASSS-2016)

           to be held at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy

                              25-30 July 2016

               Web page: http://easss2016.dmi.unict.it

               Contact: easss2016 at dmi.unict.it
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The early registration deadline for the summer school has been extended to 10 June 2016.

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***                        ABOUT EASSS-2016
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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 18th European Agent Systems Summer School will be held at the
University of Catania, Catania, Italy, from the 25th to 30th of July 2016.

As was the case with its highly successful earlier editions, EASSS-2016 will
offer a rich programme of both introductory and advanced courses on a broad
range of topics in the area of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent 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.

The scheduled tutorials of EASSS-2016 are:

* Agents meet the IoT: Towards Ecosystems of Networked Smart Objects
  - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

* Complex Event Recognition in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus, Greece

* Simple Models of Opinion Dynamics On Networks. The role of network structure
  on the emergence of consensus in simple models of opinion dynamics.
  - Vincenzo Nicosia, Queen Mary University of London, UK

* Multi-objective decision making
  - Shimon Whiteson and Diederik M. Roijers, University of Oxford, Uk

* Spatial Multi-Agent Systems
  - Andrea Omicini, Stefano Mariani, Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy

* Introduction to Judgment Aggregation for Multi-Agent Systems.
  - Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen, Norway

* Norm synthesis in Normative Multi-Agent Systems
  - Javier Morales, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

* What is “correct” when rules admit exceptions? On default logic and
  formal argumentation
  - Truls Pedersen, University of Bergen, Norway
  - Sjur Dyrkolbotn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

* Programming Conversational Agents with Akka Actors
  - Maíra Gatti de Bayser and Paulo Cavalin, IBM Research, Brazil

* Verification of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  - Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK

* Model Driven Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  - Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

* Optimisation in multi­agent systems
  - Jesús Cerquides Bueno and Juan A. Rodríguez­Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

* Programming Autonomous Robots using PROFETA and the BDI model
  - Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy

Please visit http://easss2016.dmi.unict.it/?page_id=217 for more details
about the list of tutorial.

EASSS is organised under the auspices of EURAMAS, the European Association
for Multiagent Systems (http://www.euramas.org/).


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Catania is the second major city of Sicily; it is a beautiful place that
provides, in a unique site, the strength of volcano Etna with the crystal
clear sea of the Ionian coast and the historical and archaeological
heritage.

EASSS participants can enjoy the venue and combine scientific and
touristic activities in a single trip. The coast is full of beaches with
very different characteristics, ranging from the classical yellow sand, to
the black volcanic rocks. And the climate of July strongly calls for
swimming and taking sun baths.

Not far from Catania, there are many other places to visit which can make
the stay an unforgettable experience: Acireale and Noto, full of baroque
architecture; Siracusa, Taormina, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Selinunte,
Segesta, Mothia, with their ancient Greek and Latin ruins; Palermo, which
witnesses the presence of the Arabian domination; Acitrezza, a fisherman
village in which the famous "Polyphemus vs. Ulysses" event of the Odyssey
poem is set; and many many others.

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***                           IMPORTANT DATES
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Early registration deadline:             10 June 2016 (extended)
Regular registration deadline:		    1 July 2016 (extended)
Summer school:				    25-30 July 2016

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***                               FEES
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Early registration: 340 EUR
Regular registration: 360 EUR

This includes the participation to the courses, coffee breaks, lunches
Monday-Tuesday and Thursday, and online access to the material used during
the courses by the teachers.


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A social program will be organised on Wednesday afternoon. It will be a trip
on the top of the mount Etna. It will include walks on some specific areas
and visits to some caves. The trip will be completed with a typical Sicilian
dinner.

The cost of the Social Program is expected to be around 60 euros,
*not included* in the registration fee (for the moment).


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A workshop is co-located with EASSS-2016; it is the "Workshop 'From Objects to
Agents' (WOA-2016)", a per-year meeting of the Italian research group on Agent
and Multi-agent Systems.

The participation to the workshop is free for all EASSS students and tutors.
The language of the workshop is English. Students are invited to submit their
papers if they want to share their research ideas and participate to the live
discussions.

Proceedings will be published on-line in the CEUR-WS website with ISSN.

More details can be found on http://woa2016.dmi.unict.it

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***                          Acknowledgement
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The summer school is sponsored by the journal Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) and 
by EURAMAS. The support is greatly appreciated.

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***                  EASSS-2016 Committees and Contact
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Scientific Committee:

- Davide Grossi, University of Liverpool, UK
- Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy
- Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Local Organsing Committee:

- Massimiliano De Benedetti, University of Catania, Italy
- Fabrizio Messina, University of Catania, Italy
- Giuseppe Pappalardo, University of Catania, Italy
- Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy

Contact: easss2016 at dmi.unict.it

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***                         PREVIOUS EDITIONS
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EASSS has been organised annually in different European locations since 1999.

* EASSS-2015 in Barcelona: http://http://www.iiia.csic.es/easss2015
* EASSS-2014 in Chania: http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/easss2014
* EASSS-2013 in London: http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/events/easss13/index.html

EASSS-2012/Valencia, Spain; EASSS-2011/Girona, Spain;
EASSS-2010/Saint-Etienne, France; EASSS-2009/Torino, Italy;
EASSS-2008/Lisbon, Portugal; EASSS-2007/Durham, UK;
EASSS-2006/Annecy,France;  EASSS-2005/Utrecht, Netherlands;
EASSS-2004/Liverpool, UK; EASSS-2003/Bologna, Italy;
EASSS-2002/Barcelona, Spain; EASSS-2001/Prague, Czech Republic;
EASSS-2000/Saarbrucken, Germany; EASSS-1999/Utrecht, Netherlands

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—
Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. habil. 
Nils Bulling
Interactive Intelligence Group
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
http://www.nilsbulling.com

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