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> From: Michael Luck <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue May 21, 2002  01:50:30 PM Europe/London
> To: Michael M Luck <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AgentLink Summer School: Early Registration Deadline
> Approaching
>
> [Apologies for multiple mailings]
>
>            The Fourth European Agent Systems Summer School
>                            Bologna, Italy
>                            8-12 July 2002
>
>               EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 31 May 2002
>
>            http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2002/
>
> After successful Summer Schools on Agent Systems in Utrecht,
> Saarbruecken and Prague, Agentlink is organising the fourth such event
> in Bologna, Italy 8-12 July, 2002. This is the week before the First
> International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
> will also be held there.
>
> Sponsored by Whitestein Technologies, IFMAS, FIPA, Agent Oriented
> Software and Lost Wax, EASSS 2002 will consist of a mixture of
> introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading
> experts in the MAS field, and will cover the full range of theoretical
> and practical aspects of agent-based computing.
>
> It is open to anyone from research or industry, both AgentLink members
> and non-members alike. A registration fee will be charged to cover
> costs. THE DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION IS 31 MAY 2002!
>
> For more details see the EASSS 2002 web pages:
> http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2002/
>
> Organised by: Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli,
> Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Luck, Gerhard Weiss, Mike Wooldridge
>
> EASSS'02 Tentative Schedule
> ---------------------------
>
> Monday 8th July
> Morning
> Michael Luck (University of Southampton, UK)
> Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
> Introduction to Agents
>
> Afternoon
> Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
> Learning Agents (in MAS)
>
> Tuesday 9th July
> Morning
> Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK)
> and John-Jules Meyer (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
> Logical Foundations of Agent-Based Systems
>
> Nigel Gilbert, (IUniversity of Surrey, UK)
> Agent-based simulation of societies (4 hrs)
>
> Afternoon
> Frank Dignum, (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
> Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
>
> Mathias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
> Intelligent Information Agents for the Internet
>
> Wednesday 10th July
> Morning
> Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy)
> Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena, Italy)
> Onn Shehory (IBM, Israel)
> Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies
>
> Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
> Nicola Guarino (Ladseb-CNR, Padova, Italy)
> Ontologies and the Semantic Web
>
> Afternoon
> Yves Demazeau (IMAG, France)
> MAS Organisations
>
> Stefan Poslad (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
> Designing Agent Services based upon the FIPA specifications
>
> Evening: SOCIAL EVENT
>
> Thursday 11th July
> Morning
> Henry Hexmoor, (University of Arkansas, USA)
> Agent Autonomy
>
> Joerg Mueller (Siemens, Germany)
> Business Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
>
> Afternoon
> Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA)
> Teamwork
>
> Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin (University of Maryland, USA)
> Theory and practice of Agent Communication Languages
>
> Friday 12th July
> Morning
> Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
> Economically Founded Multiagent Systems
>
> Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California, USA)
> Social Interaction With Embodied Agents
>
> Afternoon
> Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
> Economically Founded Multiagent Systems (full day)
>
> Ed Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
> Coordination in MAS
>
> --
> Dr Michael Luck                         Electronics and Computer Science
> voice: +44 23 8059 6657                 University of Southampton
> fax:   +44 23 8059 3313                 Highfield
> email: [log in to unmask]              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mml         United Kingdom
>
>
>
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