EASSS 2008: Call for Tutorials

[Mehdi Dastani]

     !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2008   !!!

The tenth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS'08) will be co-located with AAMAS'08 and
take place at

         Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
                   5-9 May 2008

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 tenth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2008 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.

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
(typically 4 or 6 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:         January 18, 2008
Notification:                   February 4, 2008
material for reader (< 26 pp)   March 23, 2008

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
webpage of EASSS07 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/EASSS07/).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors'
travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is co-located with
AAMAS 2008 and takes place one week before that event.

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

The EASSS-2008 Committee members are:

Joao Leite (local chair)        Lisbon, Portugal
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic
Wiebe van der Hoek              Liverpool, UK
Gerhard Weiss                   Hagenberg, Austria

For information about local organisation please contact
Joao Leite (jleite at di.fct.unl.pt).

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 argumentation
* 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
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
   commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
   and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* 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
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
   systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency  	
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
   multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, 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


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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