[agents] PRIMA 2020 Call for Tutorial Proposals

[Reyhan Aydogan]

PRIMA 2020 Call for Tutorial Proposals

     http://uchiya.web.nitech.ac.jp/prima2020/index.html

The PRIMA2020 organizers invite proposals for the Tutorial Program of the 23rd
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
(PRIMA2020). The tutorials will be held on the 16th and 18th November 2020
virtually in Nagoya (Japan). Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at
PRIMA2020 should submit a proposal as detailed below.

The aim of the Tutorial Program is to provide an opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to spend half a day exploring exciting
advances in the principles and practices of multi-agent systems.

We believe that this type of program is essential for the
cross-fertilization, cohesiveness, and vitality of the multiagent systems’
field. The Tutorial Program promotes the continuing education of each
member of the PRIMA community.

PRIMA2020 Tutorials should serve one, or more of the following objectives:


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   Introduce novices to major topics of research in the PRIMA community
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   Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies
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   Survey a mature area of PRIMA research or practice
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   Motivate and explain the topic of emerging importance to the PRIMA
   community
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   Survey an area of research especially relevant for people from the
   industry


The PRIMA organization will not hand on any material to attendees, but we
expect tutorialists to upload their material (e.g., slides, software, etc.)
online before the event.
Proposal Submission Requirements

Tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field. They should
present reasonably well-established information in a balanced way.
Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor
should they promote a product. Each tutorial is expected to last 2 hours.

Proposals should be no more than three pages long, excluding the resumes of
the presenters and the supplementary materials. Tutorial proposals for
PRIMA2020 should contain the following information:

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   Title of the tutorial;
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   Acronym of the tutorial;
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   The name and email address of the presenter(s);
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   Please give a few keywords of different granularity. For example, a
   tutorial on Sentiment Analysis should write Machine Learning, Natural
   language processing, Deep-Learning, LSTM, etc.
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   Suggested duration of the tutorial: 2 hours. The timeline will be
   determined according to the demographic distribution of the participants.
   For instance, it can be held at 10 am - GMT+2 Europe→ Japan 5 pm - GMT+9
   if there are mixed participants from Europe and Asia. We will decide it
   together with the tutorial instructor.
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   A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the
   conference registration brochure;
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   A detailed outline of the tutorial;
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   List of supplemental material augmented with samples, such as past
   tutorial slides and survey articles, whenever possible;
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   Characterization of the target audience for the tutorial;
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   Estimated number of participants: Please estimate the audience size
   (large audience is not always preferable);
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   Prerequisite knowledge: What knowledge is assumed of the target audience;
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   Motivations on why the tutorial topic would be of interest to the PRIMA
   audience? What will the audience walk away with?
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   A brief résumé of the presenter(s), which should include:
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      Name;
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      Current positions: Ph.D. Student, Postdoc, Professor, Researcher,
      etc.;
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      Affiliation;
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      Postal address;
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      Phone and fax numbers;
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      Email address;
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      Background in the tutorial area;
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      Any available example of work in the area, ideally a published
      tutorial-level article or presentation materials on the subject, evidence
      of teaching experiences such as courses taught or references that address
      the proposer's presentation skills, and evidence of scholarship in
      Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science.

The evaluation of the proposal will take into account the level of general
interest for PRIMA attendees, the quality of the proposal, and the
expertise and skills of the presenters. The selection of the tutorials will
be based upon a number of factors, including:



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   The scientific and technical interest of the topics;
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   The quality of the proposal;
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   The need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials;
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   The unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials

Responsibilities

For all accepted proposals, PRIMA will be responsible for

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   Providing publicity for the tutorials.
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   Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorials.
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   Together with the organizers, determining the date and time of the
   tutorial.

Submission Procedure

Proposals must be submitted as a PDF file to Rafik Hadfi (
rafik.hadfi at nitech.ac.jp),Reyhan Aydogan (reyhan.aydogan at ozyegin.edu.tr),
and Tokuro Matsuo (tokuro at tokuro.net). All information should be collated
into one single PDF file. If it is necessary to refer to information in
another format, such as video, the link to this material should be
contained in the submitted PDF. Submissions will be acknowledged via email
in two weeks after their submission.
Important Dates

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   5th November 2020: Tutorials proposal submissions due
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   7th November 2020: Notification of acceptance of tutorials proposals
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   Tutorials web pages and 1st cfp due: ASAP after notification
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   10th November 2020: Tutorials materials ready and shared with the
   tutorial chair
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   17th November 2020: Sharing tutorials materials with the participants
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   19th November 2020: Tutorials date
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