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<h1>Call for Tutorials - AMAAS 2022<br>
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<h3><strong>Important Dates </strong></h3>
<p>Proposal Submission: <strong>December 15, 2021 (23:59
UTC-12)</strong><br>
Author Notifications: <strong> January 3, 2022 (23:59
UTC-12)</strong><br>
Making the tutorial site available on the web (without
notes): <strong>February 10, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)</strong><br>
Submitting tutorial notes and making them available on the
web: <strong>April 10, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)</strong><br>
Tutorial Forum Presentations: <strong>May 9-10, 2022</strong></p>
<h3><strong>Conference Dates </strong></h3>
<p>Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops: <strong>May 9-10,
2022</strong><br>
Main Conference: <strong>May 11-13, 2022</strong></p>
<p>The AAMAS 2022 Organizing Committee invites proposals for
the Tutorial Program to be held on May 9-10, 2022,
immediately before the technical conference. <br>
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<p>Tutorials should serve one or more of the following
objectives: </p>
<ul>
<li>Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research. </li>
<li>Provide instruction in established practices and
methodologies.</li>
<li>Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.</li>
<li>Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging
importance. </li>
<li>Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. </li>
<li>Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for
people from industry. </li>
<li>Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of
AAMAS work. </li>
<li>Introduce AAMAS audiences to an external topic that can
motivate or use AAMAS research. </li>
</ul>
<p>Topic areas of interest include all of those listed in the
call for the technical track (see <a
href="https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/"
role="link">https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/</a>).
Tutorials will be half day long. A few full day tutorials
may be accepted, but the proponents need to motivate their
request when submitting their proposal. <br>
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<h3><strong>Submission Requirements </strong></h3>
<p>Submissions URL: <span><a
href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AAMASTutorials2022"
role="link">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AAMASTutorials2022</a></span>
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Tutorial proposals should be 2 to 4 pages in length,
formatted using the <span><a
href="https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/files/2021/07/AAMAS-2022-Formatting-Instructions.zip"
role="link">AAMAS paper template</a></span>, and
should contain the following information: </p>
<ul>
<li>A short title of the tutorial. </li>
<li>A brief description of the tutorial, suitable
for inclusion in the conference registration
brochure. </li>
<li>A detailed outline of the tutorial, including
preferred length (half or full day). </li>
<li>Characterization of the potential target
audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite
knowledge. </li>
<li>A description of why the tutorial topic would be
of interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS
audience. </li>
<li>Whether the tutorial is planned to be
face-to-face only, entirely virtual, or hybrid,
assuming that the main conference will be
face-to-face and few travel restrictions.</li>
<li>A description of an alternative plan for how
the workshop will be run in the event
that participants cannot attend due to travel
restrictions (i.e., withdraw the workshop, hybrid,
or entirely virtual) </li>
<li>A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should
include name, postal address, phone numbers, email
address, background in the tutorial area, any
available example of work in the area (ideally, a
published tutorial-level article on the subject),
evidence of teaching experience (including
references that address the proposer’s
presentation skills as applicable), and evidence
of scholarship in the area. Information about
previous tutorials delivered by the presenters (if
any). </li>
<li>The name and e-mail address of the corresponding
presenter. The corresponding presenter should be
available for e-mail correspondence during the
evaluation process, in the case clarifications and
discussions on the scope and content of the
proposal are needed. </li>
<li>The evaluation of the proposal will consider the
level of general interest for AAMAS attendees, the
quality of the proposal, the feasibility of
running it in the proposed mode, and the expertise
and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that
the primary criteria for evaluation will be
whether a proposal is interesting,
well-structured, and motivated, rather than the
perceived experience/standing of the
proposer. Given the uncertainty
of predicting international travel conditions,
weight will also be put on flexible plans for
running the tutorial in all circumstances. </li>
<li>The overall goal in the selection process is to
compose a balanced program of excellent tutorials.
Thus, even good proposals might be rejected. In
the case of several closely related proposals the
tutorial chairs might propose that they are
combined. </li>
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<h3><strong>Responsibilities (with respect to accepted
proposals) </strong></h3>
<p>AAMAS will be responsible for: </p>
<ul>
<li>Providing logistic support and a meeting place
for any face-to-face tutorials. </li>
<li>Together with the organizers, determining the
tutorial date and time. </li>
<li>Advertising the availability of the tutorial
material to the AAMAS 2022 participants. </li>
</ul>
<p>Tutorial organizers will be responsible for: </p>
<ul>
<li>Providing AAMAS with a link to a complete
tutorial notes by 10 April 2022. </li>
<li>Providing a web site for the tutorial, which
will include title and abstract of the tutorial,
presenters’ details, outline, tutorial notes and
related reading material. The Tutorial co-chairs
will ask the Tutorial organizers to follow some
common format and style for their web sites, in
order to make them as homogeneous as possible.
More details will be provided upon acceptance. </li>
<li>Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS 2022. </li>
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<p>AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if
the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, if
deadlines are missed, or if too few attendees
register for the tutorial to support the costs of
running the tutorial face-to-face, hybrid or
virtual. </p>
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<h3><strong>Submissions and Inquiries </strong></h3>
<p>Inquiries should be sent at <a
href="mailto:aamas2022.tutorial.chairs@gmail.com"
role="link">aamas2022.tutorial.chairs@gmail.com</a></p>
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<h3><strong>Tutorial Chairs</strong></h3>
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<li>Ferdinando Fioretto (Syracuse University, US)</li>
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<li>Magalie Ochs (LIS-Laboratory, FR)</li>
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