AAMAS 2010 - Final Call for Workshop Proposals
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The AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop 
Program to be held on May 10-11, 2010  immediately prior to the main technical 
program of the AAMAS conference.

The main goal of the AAMAS-2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate discussion, 
interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific 
topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and 
Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2010 workshops will provide an informal setting where 
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere 
that fosters the active exchange of ideas. AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, 
NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), 
and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas.

Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop 
proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, applications, and on 
broader topics catering to the broader community represented by the co-located 
events are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will 
be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register 
for their workshop and preferably also for the  main AAMAS conference. Attendance 
is limited to registered participants only.

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Important Dates for Workshops 
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  OCTOBER 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline 
  NOVEMBER 30, 2009 - Acceptance Notification 
  DECEMBER 11, 2009 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers 
  DECEMBER 11, 2009 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops Program Announced 
  FEBRUARY,  2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops 
  MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification 
  MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to the workshop chair

Workshop chair

  MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation 
  MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS

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AAMAS-2010 Workshops Requirements for Submission 
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Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length (in plain 
ASCII text), and should contain the following information:

- Title of the workshop.

- A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the 
technical issues that it will address,  and the relevance of the workshop to 
the main conference.

- A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.

- A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their 
relation to the proposed workshop.  Information about previous offerings of the 
proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past  (i.e., with AAMAS 
or another conference?), organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions,  
acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any  (e.g., journal 
special issue).

- A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop. 
This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to encourage an 
atmosphere appropriate for a workshop.

- Description of paper review process and acceptance standards.

- If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees.

- The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the 
proposed workshop  organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four 
people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee 
should include individuals from multiple institutions.

-The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this person must have an 
email address).

- A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to 
organizing an AAMAS  workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any 
members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.

- List of potential program committee members, including their title and affiliations.

- Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).

- A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is 
planned to be advertised.


All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to the AAMAS-2010 
Workshop Chair:

Kagan Tumer ( kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu )

as soon as possible but no later than: Saturday October 31, 2009.

Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision 
no later than: Monday November 30, 2009.

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon 
multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of 
the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness  of workshop topics, 
the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, and the capacity of the conference workshop 
program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas 
and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals.

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Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers 
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For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for:

- Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.

- Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.

- Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.


Workshop organizers will be responsible for:

-Setting up a website for the workshop.

-Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by DECEMBER 11,  2009) and 
a call for participation (by MARCH 19, 2010).

-Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection 
on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop 
organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and 
notifications of acceptance, i.e.,  FEBRUARY 2, 2010: Submissions of contributions 
to workshops; MARCH 2, 2010: Notifications

- Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshops chair by MARCH 19, 
2010, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. 
The AAMAS-2010 workshop notes will be included in the  flash drive containing the AAMAS-2010 
conference proceedings. To that end, please include the following sentence in your call for 
papers: "Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS-2010 
registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available to workshop 
participants."

- Ensuring that the workshop notes or individual papers are available from the workshops 
websites, as appropriate. Though the workshop notes will appear on the flash drive distributed 
to conference attendees, the workshop notes will not be hosted on the IFAAMAS website.

- Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and 
are invited to register  to the main conference (at least one author must register for the 
workshop in order for a paper to appear in the  workshop proceedings).

AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, 
or if too few paying attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs.

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Submissions and Inquiries 
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Please send proposals and inquiries to:

Kagan Tumer 
Oregon State University 
kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu