PRIMA2002 SUMMER SCHOOL
ON
 AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

<http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/csl/ccrg/events/prima-school/>
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo
August 17, 2002

 Sponsored by the International Foundation on Multiagent Systems
           the Institute of Electronics, Information and  
Communication Engineers          


Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are rapidly
growing research fields. PRIMA is a series of workshops
on autonomous  agents and multi-agent systems, integrating
the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries.
We are organizing the PRIMA2002 SUMMER SCHOOL
ON AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS in the aim
of educating fundamentals of this rapidly growing area to
students from Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Leading
researchers will deliver the relevant lectures at the school.
The school also includes a student poster session and a reception.
 


SCHEDULE:

The school will be held on August 17 (Sat), 2002,
at National Center of Sciences, Tokyo.

10:00 - 12:30

 Introduction/Coordination                               
   Edmund H. Durfee, University of Michigan, USA

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 -15:30  Agent Architecture/Language/Semantics                                
   David Kinny, University of Melbourne, Australia

 Self-organization/Evolution/Learning
   Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

15:30 - 16:00

 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00  Embodied Agents/Social Interaction
    W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA

 Game-theory/Auction/Market-based System
    Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
    Hirofumi Yamaki, Kyoto University, Japan 

18:00 - 20:00

 Welcome Reception & Student Poster Session

 


STUDENT POSTERS SESSION:

The student posters session will be held at PRIMA2002
welcome reception. The student poster session will be a
great chance to present your ideas to the participants
and interact with them. We strong encourage all student
to participate in this sessions. Anything from abstract
of published work to ongoing research is welcome, i.e.,
no matter what the status of their research. Furthermore,
if you can submit your poster (ps or pdf file) by e-mail
(prima2002-school@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp) in advance, the
speakers at this school will give you comments on your
posters before the school day!!

Your posters will be displayed at PRIMA2002 welcome
reception. We will provide you with posterboard
(72.8cm by 103.0cm) in which you can display 6 sheets of
A4-size papers and something to put up posters.
Please contact us if you have any questions about the
poster session.
 


HOW TO APPLY/REGISTER:

<REGISTRATION FORM>
ALL PRATICIPANTS in this school must PRE-REGISTER
to attend the summer school whether you have registered/will
register for PRIMA2002 or not. Please send the registration form
by email (prima2002-school@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp).
The deadline for registration is Aug. 14th, 2002 (EXTENDED!!!).

<REGISTRATION FEE>

Participants in
PRIMA2002 Summer School ONLY
Student  JPY8,000
Regular  JPY10,000
Participants in PRIMA2002 Student/Regular  FREE

<PAYMENT OF FEES>
All prices quoted are in Japanese Yen (JPY).
Payments in other currencies will not be accepted.
Please contact us if you are overseas participants.

Credit Card  (Overseas participants only): Registration fees
can be paid using the following cards: Mastercard and Visa.
Regretfully, other credit cards cannot be accepted.
The cardholder's name, card number, expiration date of the card
and an original signature from the cardholder should be
filled out on the Registration Form.

Bank Transfer  (Recommended only for domestic participants):
Registration fees can be remitted by bank transfer to the School bank
account. The School Secretariat will not be responsible for identifying
funds transferred directly into the account when the name of the
participant is not mentioned, nor will the School Secretariat accept
charges of bank fees associated with the transfer.

 Bank Name  Nanto Bank
 Branch  Keihanna Plaza Branch
 Account No.  0062255
 Account Name  PRIMA daihyo Kuwabara Kazuhiro
 Sfiwt Code  NANTJPJT



Organizing Chair:
Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan

Local Arrangement Chair:
Yuko Sakurai, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan

For further inquiry, please mail to:
prima2002-school@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp