AGENTLINK UPDATE # 10 --- 10 November 1998

This is the email newsletter of AgentLink -- Europe's Network of
Excellence for Agent-based Computing. The AgentLink WWW site is

	   http://www.AgentLink.org/

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group receives a copy of the AgentLink update. If you have a group
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update list? To add someone to this mailing list (not necessarily a
member of AgentLink), just send a request to
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Contents:

* AgentLink Newsletter issue 1 available now

* AgentLink support for travel to MAAMAW

* AgentLink continuation & strategic planning

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* AgentLink Newsletter issue 1 available now

The first issue of the AgentLink newsletter is now available. The
newsletter is a professionally typeset magazine, containing features
and articles of interest to AgentLink members. (In case you were
wondering, this email update list is *not* the AgentLink newsletter!)

Note that *all* AgentLink members will receive printed copies of the
newsletter by post (expect them soon). It is also freely available in
PDF format from the AgentLink WWW site -- follow the sidebar link to
"newsletter", and then to "issue 1". If you would like to contribute
an article to subsequent editions of the newsletter, you can find out
how from the "newsletter" page of the AgentLink WWW site. Its a quick
and easy route to publicise your group, project, product, or research
-- so why not write something? We are also keen to print opinion
pieces -- anything except "what is an agent" is welcome...

The contents of the first issue are:

Articles 

      Integrating Mobile Agent Technology and
      CORBA Middleware 
      Thomas Magedanz, Markus Breugst, Ingo Busse,
      Stefan Covaci 

      FIPA - Agent technologies achieve maturity 
      Leonardo Chiariglione 

      FM: A Test-bed for Auction Markets 
      Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Francisco J. Martin,
      Francisco J. Gimenez, David Gutierrez, Pere
      Garcia, Carles Sierra, Pablo Noriega 

The AgentLink FAQ 

      Mike Wooldridge 

Site Reports 

      Agents Build the World's Largest Ships 
      John W. Perram and Claus Risager 

      Societies of Computation 
      Paul Davidsson and Rune Gustavsson 

Project Reports 

      MASCADA1: Manufacturing Control Systems
      Capable of Managing Production Change and
      Disturbances 
      Sven Brueckner 

      PRAXIS XXI: SARA - SOCIETIES of
      ANIMATED and RESPONSIBLE AGENTS 
      Helder Coelho 

Conference Reports 

      Third International Conference on
      Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS) 
      Edmund H. Durfee, Yves Demazeau, and Nicholas
      R. Jennings 

      The Fifth International Workshop on Agent
      Theories, Architectures, and Languages
      (ATAL-98) 
      Joerg P.Mueller 

      Successful workshop on Multi-Agent systems
      and Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) 
      Nigel Gilbert 

Resources 

      How to Contact AgentLink 
      About AgentLink news 
      Events Calendar 

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* AgentLink support for travel to MAAMAW

As part of its research promotion activities, AgentLink has agreed to
provide some financial support for AgentLink members with full
accepted papers at the MAAMAW-99 workshop. This support aims to cover
the cost of registration, travel, and subsistence for the
workshop. Note that support will be limited to one person per accepted
paper, and will *only* be available to *AgentLink members* with *full*
accepted papers (i.e., *not* posters). Further details are available
on request from mailto:coordinator@agentlink.org.

Details about MAAMAW-99 are available from Magnus Boman
(mailto:mab@dsv.su.se). 

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* AgentLink continuation & strategic planning

The fifth framework looms ever closer, and AgentLink must apply for
continuation funding pretty much as soon as the commission allows us
to. We are interested to hear your suggestions for strategic
directions that AgentLink should go in: What should we do that we are
not currently doing? What are the important topics for agent R&D that
we are currently ignoring? Let us know. You can email the network
coordinator directly at mailto:M.J.Wooldridge@elec.qmw.ac.uk.

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