<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 10.5pt; text-align: center;"><font color="#212121" face="Lato, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><b class="">AAMAS 2022 </b></font><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Call for Tutorials<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Important Dates <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Proposal Submission: <b class="">December 15, 2021 (23:59 UTC-12)</b> <br class="">Author Notifications: <b class=""> January 3, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)</b> <br class="">Making the tutorial site available on the web (without notes): <b class="">February 10, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)</b> <br class="">Submitting tutorial notes and making them available on the web: <b class="">April 10, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)</b> <br class="">Tutorial Forum Presentations: <b class="">May 9-10, 2022</b> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Conference Dates <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops: <b class="">May 9-10, 2022</b> <br class="">Main Conference: <b class="">May 11-13, 2022</b> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">The AAMAS 2022 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program to be held on May 9-10, 2022, immediately before the technical conference. AAMAS 2022. <br class="">Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from industry. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AAMAS work. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Introduce AAMAS audiences to an external topic that can motivate or use AAMAS research. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Topic areas of interest include: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Markets, auctions, and non-cooperative game theory<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Social choice and cooperative game theory<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Knowledge representation, reasoning, and planning<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Learning and adaptation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Modeling and simulation of societies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Humans and AI / Human-agent interaction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Engineering multiagent systems<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Robotics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Innovative applications<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">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. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Submission Requirements <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><pre class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Submissions URL: </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AAMASTutorials2022" class=""><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AAMASTutorials2022</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""> <br class="">
Tutorial proposals should be 2 to 4 pages in length, formatted using the </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/files/2021/07/AAMAS-2022-Formatting-Instructions.zip" class=""><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">AAMAS paper template</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">, and should contain the following information: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></pre><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">A short title of the tutorial. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (half or full day). <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS audience. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Whether the tutorial is planned to be face-to-face only, entirely virtual, or hybrid, assuming that the main conference will be face-to-face and few travel restrictions.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">A description of an alternative plan for how the workshop will be run in the event that participants cannot attend due to travel restrictions (i.e., withdraw the workshop, hybrid, or entirely virtual) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">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). <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">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. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">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, and the expertise and skills of the presenters. 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. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">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 that they are combined. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; line-height: 20.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">AAMAS will be responsible for: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Providing logistic support and a meeting place for any face-to-face tutorials. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Advertising the availability of the tutorial material to the AAMAS 2022 participants. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; line-height: 20.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Tutorial organizers will be responsible for: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Providing AAMAS with a link to a complete tutorial notes by 10 April 2022. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Providing a web site 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. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS 2022. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">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 face-to-face, hybrid or virtual. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Submissions and Inquiries <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; line-height: 20.4pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Inquiries should be sent at </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="mailto:aamas2022.tutorial.chairs@gmail.com" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">aamas2022.tutorial.chairs@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""> <br class=""><br class=""></span><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class="">Tutorial Chairs</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Ferdinando Fioretto (Syracuse University, US) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;" class="">Magalie Ochs (LIS-Laboratory, FR) </span></li></ul><br class=""><div class=""><div>----<br class="">Sara Bernardini<br class="">Professor of Artificial Intelligence<br class="">Director of the MSc in Artificial Intelligence<br class="">Department of Computer Science <br class="">Royal Holloway University of London<br class=""><br class="">Office: Bedford 2-24 <br class="">Tel.: +44 1784 276792<br class="">Web: <a href="http://www.sara-bernardini.com" class="">www.sara-bernardini.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>