AA/ATAL/IFMAS Co-Sponsored China Agent Systems School Call for Participants December 13-17, 2004 Chongqing, China China Agent Systems School is co-sponsored by AA/ATAL/IFMAS, and it is the first time such a school held in China. It will provide you with a tightly- packed introductory, advanced and industrial application course to agents and multi-agent systems. It is an excellent opportunity for young researchers especially post-graduate students to listen to the lectures of well-known experts in agent field. In this agent school, we have proudly invited 6 very famous guest lecturers around the world. The agent school will have 5 day lectures. Each of them will give a one day or half day detailed lecture which covers differnt topics in agent fields. They are (in alphabetic order): � Professor Ed Durfee (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA) � Professor Toru Ishida (Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Japan) � Dr David Kinny (CTO, Agentis Software, USA) � Professor Jiming Liu (Head of Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China) � Professor Hideyuki Nakashima (President of Future University, Japan) � Professor Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Registation fee: Full time student: Early bird (before 29 October 2004): US$120 Late (before 26 November 2004): US$160 On-site (after 26 November): US$200 Others: Early bird (before 29 October 2004): US$200 Late (before 26 November 2004): US$240 On-site (after 26 November): US$280 The registration fee includes 5 day lectures, printed and bound lecture notes, morning and afternoon teas, and light lunches! Seats are limited. Please register NOW to secure your seat! This Agent School will be co-organized by � Southwest China Normal University, China � Deakin University, Australia For more information contact Dr Zili Zhang at zzhang@deakin.edu.au, or browse http://www.deakin.edu.au/~zzhang/agent_school Wen qing Zhao Visitor School of Information Technology Deakin University Geelong VIC 3217, Australia Phone: +61-(03)-5227 2603 email: wenqing@deakin.edu.au