EASSS 2007: call for tutorials

[Mehdi Dastani]

       !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2007   !!!

The ninth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School
(EASSS'07) will take place at

                  Durham University, UK
                    27-31 August 2007

     http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/EASSS07/


Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the ninth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2007 aims to offer a valuable forum for
knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field
for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and
advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not
only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in
forming future generations of researchers to maintain the
excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are
possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover
the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected
to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised
by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in
2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086),
and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the
above webpage.

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but each tutor is
encouraged to book and pay for his/her own travel to Durham. There
are cheap flights from Newcastle to various destinations in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and
their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be
presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors
and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced),
duration (2, 6, or, preferably, 4 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and
quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation
material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.


Deadline for proposals:         February 5, 2007
Notification:                   March 19, 2007
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 2, 2007


Submissions should be sent to Mehdi Dastani (mehdi at cs.uu.nl).


The EASSS-2007 Committee members are:

Rafael H. Bordini (local chair)         Durham, UK
Mehdi Dastani (chair)                   Utrecht, The Netherlands
Wiebe van der Hoek                      Liverpool, UK
Barbara Keplicz                         Warszawa, Poland
Michael Luck                            Southampton, UK
Michal Pechoucek                        Prague, Czech Republic
Carles Sierra                           Barcelona, Spain
Gerhard Weiss                           Hagenberg, Austria


For information about local organisation please contact
Rafael H. Bordini (durham.agents007 at durham.ac.uk).


POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent conversations
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools	
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* ambient intelligence and agents-based systems
* applications for agent and multi-agent systems
* argumentation in agent-based systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
   commerce
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid,
   and sociable robots
* coalition formation and multi-agent teams
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
   multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* electronic institutions
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
   systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency
* frameworks, infrastructures, environments, and system support for
   multi-agent systems
* game theoretic models for agents based systems	
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* lessons learned and performance evaluation of deployed multi-agent
   systems
* logics and formal models for agent systems
* mobile agents
* multi-agent, specification, verification and validation
* negotiation and conflict handling in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents	
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* task and resource allocation in multi-agent systems


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Mehdi Dastani
Intelligent Systems Group
Utrecht University
P.O.Box 80.089
3508 TB Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 - 30 - 253 3599
Fax: +31 - 30 - 251 3791
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi