[agents] AAMAS 2023: Final Call for Tutorials

[Amit Chopra]

 The AAMAS 2023 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Program to be held on May 29-30, 2023, immediately before the technical
conference AAMAS 2023.

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

   - Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research.
   - Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.
   - Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.
   - Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance.
   - Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area.
   - Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from
   industry.
   - Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AAMAS work.
   - Introduce AAMAS audiences to an external topic that can motivate, use
   or be useful to AAMAS research.

Areas of interest include all of those listed in the call for the technical
track (https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/calls/call-for-papers/).

Tutorials will be half day long. A few full day tutorials may be accepted,
but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their
proposal.
Important Dates

Proposal Submission:  *January 9, 2023 (23:59 UTC-12)*
Author Notifications: * January 31, 2023 (23:59 UTC-12)*
Making the tutorial site available on the web: * TBA*
Tutorial Forum Presentations:  *May 29-30, 2023*
Conference Dates

Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops:  *May 29-30, 2023*
Main Conference:  *May 31- June 2, 2023*
Submission Requirements

Submissions URL: TBA

Tutorial proposals should be 2 to 4 pages in length, formatted using the AAMAS
paper template
<https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/files/2021/07/AAMAS-2022-Formatting-Instructions.zip>,
and should contain the following information:

   - A short title of the tutorial.
   - A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the
   conference registration brochure.
   - A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (half
   or full day).
   - Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial,
   including prerequisite knowledge.
   - A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a
   substantial part of the AAMAS audience.
   - At this point the conference, including the tutorials, is planned as
   face-to-face. Yet, please add a description of an alternative plan for how
   the tutorial will be run in the event that participants cannot attend
   due to travel restrictions (i.e., withdraw the tutorial, hybrid, or
   entirely virtual)
   - A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal
   address, phone numbers, email address, background in the tutorial area,
   any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published
tutorial-level
   article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including
   references that address the proposer’s presentation skills as applicable),
   and evidence of scholarship in the area. Information about previous
   tutorials delivered by the presenters (if any).
   - The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The
   corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence
   during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and discussions
   on the scope and content of the proposal are needed.

The evaluation of the proposal will consider the level of general interest
for AAMAS attendees, the quality of the proposal, the feasibility of
running it in the proposed mode, the expertise and skills of the
presenters, and recent tutorials on the same or related topics at AAMAS.

We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a
proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the
perceived experience/standing of the proposer. Given the uncertainty of
predicting international travel conditions, weight will also be put on
flexible plans for running the tutorial in all circumstances.

The overall goal in the selection process is to compose a balanced program
of excellent tutorials. Thus, even good proposals might be rejected. In the
case of several closely related proposals the tutorial chairs might propose
their authors to combine the proposals into a single tutorial.
Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals)

AAMAS will be responsible for:

   - Providing logistic support and a meeting place for any face-to-face
   tutorials.
   - Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time.
   - Advertising the availability of the tutorial material to the AAMAS
   2023 participants.

Tutorial organizers will be responsible for:

   - Providing AAMAS with a link to a complete tutorial notes by 20 April
   2023.
   - Providing a website for the tutorial, which will include title and
   abstract of the tutorial, presenters’ details, outline, tutorial notes
   and related reading material. The Tutorial co-chairs will ask the
   Tutorial organizers to follow some common format and style for their web
   sites, in order to make them as homogeneous as possible. More details will
   be provided upon acceptance.
   - Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS 2023.

AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above
responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too few
attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of running the
tutorial.
Submissions and Inquiries

Inquiries should be sent at aamas2023.tutorial.chairs at gmail.com
Tutorial Chairs

   - Svetlana Obraztsova (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
   https://sites.google.com/site/svobraztsova/


   - Reshef Meir (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
   https://reshef.net.technion.ac.il/
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