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STUDENT SESSION @ EASSS09

11th European Agent Systems Summer School
Torino, Italy
August 31st - September 4th 2009

*Final Call for submissions to the Student Session*

All students are cordially invited to participate in the Student Session 
of EASSS'09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The European Agent Systems Summer School aims to offer a valuable forum 
for knowledge exchange between various research groups in its field for 
the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced 
level. The success of the summer school series 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.

EASSS attracts about 100 students each year. The school provides a wide 
range of state-of-the-art courses given by the most prominent 
researchers in the area. A typical course has 4 hours in total and they 
are broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, 
whilst also covering the most important contributions in depth. Courses 
are expected to take a wide perspective of the research being done by 
various groups active in research on the specific topic of the course.

Within this context, the Student Session is designed to encourage 
student interaction and feedback from the tutors. By providing the 
students with a conference-like setup, both in the presentation and in 
the review process, students have the opportunity to prepare their own 
submission, go through the selection process (peer review) and possibly 
present their work to themselves and their interests to their fellow 
students as well as internationally leading experts in the agent field, 
both from the theoretical and the practical sector.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted paper submissions 
will be assigned a 15 minute slot for presentation. Typically a 
presentation will either detail the intended approach to a problem or 
ask a specific question, directed at the audience. In addition, selected 
submission authors will be given the opportunity to present their work 
in form of a poster that will be displayed at a special room throughout 
the EASSS'09. Moreover, all the submissions will be published in online 
proceedings.

As the goal is to provide the speakers with constructive feedback and a 
way to be introduced to the community, the competitive elements often 
found in conferences (best paper award, best presentation award) are 
intentionally omitted. The peer review will focus not on the magnitude 
of the presented material but on the clarity of the formulated material 
or whether or not the posed question is of relevance to a majority of 
students.
Giving a good presentation is a difficult task, practising it is the 
benefit of this session. The extend to which the audience has understood 
the details should be the criterion by which the presentations are judged.

*Deadlines*

**July 3rd** Fri: Submissions deadline.
August 3th Fri: Notification to authors.
August 31st Mon: Start Summer School


*Submission Details*

Submissions should be
  - student work at student level.
  - up to 6 pages maximum (including figures, tables, bibliography, 
abstract etc) in the AAMAS09 format (templates can be found in 
http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/instruction.html ).
  - clearly stating the posed question or the proposed approach, as well 
as outlining the problem at hand.
  - stating the author(s), their affiliation and their current status.
  - giving a few references to both the standard literature and specific 
relevant publications (possibly your own).
  - in either .pdf or .ps or .doc format (for MS Word files it will be 
your responsibility to ensure compatibility).
  - all papers should be written in English.
  - use the tool EasyChair 
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sseasss09) for the submission.

Please feel free to email [log in to unmask] with any questions or 
suggestions regarding the student session.
Please mention EASSS'09 in the subject.


*Regards*

Student Session PC Chairs
Tina Balke
University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Serena Villata
University of Turin, Italy
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Daniel Villatoro
IIIA-CSIC, Spain
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