AGENTLINK UPDATE # 18 --- 23 June 1999 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/ IMPORTANT: Please take the time to ensure that every member of your group receives a copy of the AgentLink update. If you have a group mail alias, why not get this alias to be added to the mailing list? To subscribe/unsubscribe to this mailing list simply send a request to mailto:coordinator@agentlink.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: * IATA SIG Second meeting -- call for participation * Reminder - expense claims for April SIG meetings now due! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * IATA SIG Second meeting -- call for participation INTELLIGENT AGENTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS August 11, 1999 Stockholm (Sweden) http://dai.cs.tu-berlin.de/deutsch/news/SIG-IATA/ The main purpose of this SIG is to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between telecommunications service and network providers (telco industry), universities and other research institutions as well as European research projects (ACTS, EURESCOM, ...), on the topic of intelligent agents for telecommunications applications and telematics services (IATA). The overall aim of the IATA SIG is to support the rapid and timely adoption of new telecommunications applications and telematics services in the telco industry based on agent technology, and to firmly establish agent technology in the telco industry. The IATA SIG promotes synergetic efforts on applying agent technology to telecommunications. It is expected to establish new cooperation between both researchers and telcos in the area mentioned above, but also to tighten contacts and focus dispersed research and development efforts. Agent technology is to be investigated as to how it can be usefully applied to the area of telecommunications applications and telematics services. Specifically, the following goals are to be pursued: * Identification and analysis of the telecommunications requirements for an open, scalable agent platform * Identification and analysis of telecommunications applications and telematics services where agent technology can add substantial value as opposed to other, more conventional technologies. These applications and services include - service and network management - mobility supporting services - electronic commerce * Identification and analysis of requirements for an infrastructure for agent-based applications and services * analysis of a methodology for agent-oriented software development for telecommunications applications and telematics services. PARTICIPATION The number of attendees of this meeting is limited to 20 persons. AgentLink SIG meetings are **by invitation only**, i.e., all participants have to confirm their attendance of the meeting, and have to be confirmed by the meeting chair. If you like to attend the meeting please send a STATEMENT OF INTEREST to arrive not later than JULY 5, 1999, including (1) your name, affiliation and full contact address (2) list of recent and ongoing collaborations and participation in national and european research programs or projects of your group/institute in R&D of intelligent information agents and available IATA prototypes for demonstration at the meeting. (3) a short (update of the) report about your group (in plain text, pdf or postscript). by email (to sahin@dailab.cs.tu-berlin.de) or mail (see address below). Date & Location The meeting will be held at AUGUST 11, 1999, and will be co-located with the IATA'99 workshop in Stockholm, Sweden. More detailed information is available on our web site: http://dai.cs.tu-berlin.de/deutsch/news/tagungen/IATA99 Travel Funding AgentLink (AL) will fund a maximum of one person from each AL member node to attend the SIG meeting, provided that these people are *actively participating* (e.g. by presenting something). AL will allow up to 2 people from each AL node to attend each SIG meeting (i.e., if 2 people attend a single SIG meeting, then at most one will be funded.) Note that travel support will *only* be available to full AgentLink members. Please indicate your need to be funded not later than JULY 5, 1999 by email or mail (see addresses below). Contact For all inquiries concerning the IATA SIG/meeting please contact: Dr. Sahin Albayrak DAI-Lab Technical University of Berlin Sekr. FR6-7 Franklinstr. 28/29 10587 Berlin Germany Phone +49 30 314 24943 Fax +49 30 314 21799 Email: sahin@dailab.cs.tu-berlin.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Reminder - expense claims for April SIG meetings now due! AgentLink travel expense claims need to be submitted within two calendar months of the event... this means that claims for the April SIG meetings are now due! If you haven't yet sent in your claim, please do so ASAP... -- END ---------------------------------------------------------------