AGENTS'99
Third International Conference
on Autonomous Agents
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS
Introduction
Important dates
Gudelines for panel organisers
Contact
INTRODUCTION
The program chairs invite proposals for technical panel sessions
to be held at the 3rd International Conference on
Autonomous Agents (Agents'99), May 1-5, in Seattle, WA. Panels will
be held on the days of May 3-5, 1998.
Panel topics can include but are by no means restricted to the main
conference themes. Themes suggested as panel topics
should be of broad interest within the Autonomous Agents community,
e.g., discuss novel research directions, or
evaluate proven roads of research.
Anyone interested in organising a Technical Panel at Agents'99 should
submit a panel proposal to the technical
program co-chairs of Agents'99 (see below) no
later than January 15, 1999. Proposals should be submitted by post or electronically
(in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, or RTF).
A panel proposal should contain the following information:
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A title for the panel
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A brief description of the panel, suitable for inclusion in the conference
registration brochure.
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An outline of the questions to be discussed in the panel.
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A description of why the panel topic is of interest to a substantial
part of the Agents'99 audience.
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A list of four to six suggested panelists. (See INSTRUCTIONS
FOR PANEL ORGANISERS below)
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Brief resumes of all panelists, which should include
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- name
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- postal address
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- phone and fax numbers
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- email address
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- background in the area of the panel topic (e.g., teaching
experience, brief cv).
We suggest that potential panel organisers contact the program co-chairs
in advance if they have any questions or queries.
IMPORTANT DATES
Panel proposals due:
January 15, 1998.
Notification of acceptance: February 8, 1999.
Panel descriptions due:
April 2, 1999.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PANEL ORGANISERS
In order to ensure that panels are of high standard and interactive, panel
organisers are asked to keep to the
following guidelines:
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Panelists should be recognized experts in the topic of the panel.
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Please list only panelists in your panel proposal who have (at least
in principle) agreed to participate in the panel you propose.
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Each panelist must provide a (1-2)-page abstract of their panel statement
for distribution with the conference materials. You will be asked
to collect these panel statements from the panelists, and to compile them
(together with the panel questions) into a panel description which will
be distributed to participants with the conference materials.
Please send the panel description to the program co-chairs
NO LATER THAN April 2, 1999.
(Email PostScript, PDF, or RTF)
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Panels should be organised in a way that maximizes interaction. A panel
should not be an unrelated sequence of ill-prepared short presentations,
but a coordinated and coherent discussion.
You as the organiser of the panel will also play the role of a moderator,
making sure that the initial panel statements are short (no longer
than five minutes per panelists), that there is plenty of room
for discussion, and that the audience is included in the discussion.
CONTACT
Please address panel proposals and all requests to:
Oren Etzioni
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, 98195
Email: etzioni@cs.washington.edu
Tel: (206) 685-3035
FAX: (206) 543-2969
or
Joerg Mueller
John Wiley & Sons
4th Floor
International House
London W5 5DB, UK
Email: jpm@wis-dev.wiley.co.uk
Tel.: ++44 181 832 1510
Fax: ++44 181 579 6368
This web site was last modified November 4, 1998 by JPM