Call For Participation

            ** Registration is now open **

          10th European Agent Systems Summer School
                       (EASSS 2008)
              New University of Lisbon, Portugal
                      5 - 9 May 2008

                  (week before AAMAS'08)

          Early Registration Deadline: 31st of March

            Sponsors: IFAAMAS, CENTRIA and APPIA.

       http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/easss08/

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As its very successful predecessors, EASSS'08 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. EASSS consists of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading experts in multi-agent systems, and it covers the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent systems.

EASSS'08 will comprise the following courses: 
* Introduction to Multiagent Systems
* Logics for Multiagent Systems
* Trust and Reputation in Multiagent Systems
* Service Oriented Agents
* Introduction to Game Theory and Mechanism Design
* Foundations of Institutions
* Agents and Arguments
* Computational Complexity in Multiagent Systems
* Planning in Multiagent Systems
* What Coalitions Can Achieve
* Agent Oriented Software Engineering
* Automated Negotiations in Electronic Markets
* Agent Based Simulation for Social Studies
* Normative Multiagent Systems
* Wireless Sensor Networks and Multiagent Systems
* Agent Swarms Generating Short-term Forecasts and Increasing   Situational Awareness

This summer school is open to anyone from academia or
industry. 
More information can be found at the webpage.

Inquiries can be sent to easss08@gmail.com