Call for Bids to Host MALLOW-2011

[Rafael H Bordini]

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                                 MALLOW

            Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations
                           Federated Workshops

                    http://www.mallow-workshops.org/

                             CALL FOR BIDS
                          to host MALLOW-2011
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The MALLOW steering committee invites proposals to host the 4th
edition of MALLOW, to be held early September 2011. Bids in the format
described below can be submitted until 10th of October, 2010.

The MALLOW workshop federation was created in 2007 with the aim of
providing a European venue for workshops on various related topics in
Multi-Agent Systems. It encompasses both theoretical and practical
approaches to the design and development of autonomous agents and
agent organisations. The first edition took place in Durham (UK) in
2007, and was followed by an equally successful edition in Torino
(Italy) in 2009. The 2010 edition is due to take place near Lyon
(France) from 30th of August to 2nd of September. In all 3 editions,
MALLOW took place the week after the European Agent Systems Summer
School (usually last week of August and first week of September).

MALLOW aims to be more than just a venue for workshops. It has a very
specific ethos that makes a clear impact on the way and where it is to
be organised. In particular, we aim to:

* Provide a venue for related workshops in a way that participants
   will have the opportunity to attend various workshops, thus
   fostering collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas among the
   specific research communities that are typically gathered in
   each of the workshops.

* The MALLOW organisers should facilitate the work of the workshop
   organisers by taking care of local arrangements, very much as in
   workshops that take place with major conferences. However, the
   intention is that MALLOW should be an affordable event for
   attendants.

* Unlike many conferences, one of the central characteristics of the
   MALLOW events is that attendants are meant to have full board
   together in the same place, in order to increase the time available
   for networking. This also contributes to the friendly and
   collaborative atmosphere of the whole event that has marked the
   MALLOW editions so far.

Research groups who are able to provide this kind of infrastructure
for running MALLOW and would like to bid to run the 2011 edition of
MALLOW are invited to submit a short document outlining: (i) the
facilities available at the proposed venue, (ii) typical travel
arrangements to reach the venue; (iii) an estimation of costs for
participants including full-board plus the lecture rooms (usually 4
1/2 days with at most 2 parallel workshops), (iv) previous experience
of the proponents in organasing academic events, if any. Proposals in
plain text or PDF should be emailed to Rafael Bordini
<r.bordini at inf.ufrgs.br>. The deadline for bidding to run
MALLOW-2011 is:

                     *** 10th of October 2010 ***

However, we would appreciate receiving an email with a brief statement
of intention to bid by 1st of September 2010 (such emails should be
sent to the same address above).


MALLOW Steering Committee
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* Cristina Baroglio – University of Torino, Italy
* Rafael H. Bordini (chair) – INF-UFRGS, Brazil
* Mehdi Dastani – Utrecht Univeristy, Netherlands
* Virginia Dignum – TU Delft, Netherlands
* João Leite – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
* John Lloyd – Australian National University, Australia
* Brian Logan – University of Nottingham, UK
* Pablo Noriega – IIIA-CSIC, Spain
* Munindar Singh – NCSU, USA
* Rineke Verbrugge – University of Groningen, Netherlands