Provisional Agenda for the (Informal) AgentLink Management Committee Meeting

To be held 

        4.00pm-7.00pm Wednesday 22 September 1999, Barcelona, Spain
        [precise location to be fixed - Carles?]

Confirmed:

        Michael Wooldridge (chair - general coordinator)
	  Joerg Mueller (WP1 coordinator)
        Yves Demazeau (WP2 coordinator)
        Carles Sierra (WP2/e-commerce SIG)
        Jan Treur (meth/soft eng sig)
        Paul Davidsson (WP4 committee/editor of newsletter)
        John Perram (WP1 committee)
        Rosaria Conte (WP4 committee)
?       Thomas Magedanz (WP1 committee)

Apologies:

        Gerhard Weiss (WP3 coordinator)
        Leonardo Flores (European Commission representative)
        Janet Bruten (WP4 committee)
        Matthias Klusch (i2a sig)
        Magnus Boman (WP2 committee)
        Hugo Brailsford (admin coordinator for network)
        Wiebe van der Hoek (WP3 committee)
	  Bernard Burg (WP1 committee)
	  Nick Jennings (WP2 committee)


AGENDA ITEMS

1.      Welcome [MJW]

        - update on continuation progress
        - what's happening with the UIE initiative

2.      Summer School 1999 and 2000 [MJW]
        
        - report on 1999
	- plans for 2000 - organisation of curriculum + possible venues:

		* Spain (Madrid?) immediately after Agents 2000
		* Berlin before/after ECAI 2000
		* Grenoble before/after MAAMAW 2000
		* Bonn during summer 2000
		* Saarbrucken during summer 2000

3.      Industrial Relations [JPM + MJW]

	- thoughts on increasing industrial relevance of AL

4.      Status of SIGs [SIG coordinators]

        - general feedback from all (any major problems/hiccups)
	- representation at IST 99, Helsinki, Dec 1999
	- IATA problems
	- next SIG meetings
	- whether/how to colocate SIG meetings with Agents2000 
	  (a similar arrangement to PAAM99)?

5.	Human capital mobility issues [YD]

6.      Reports from the workpackages [JPM, YD]

        A **SHORT** report from each WP coordinator to let 
        everyone know what is happening.

7.      Any other business [MJW]

8.     	Date & location of next meeting [MJW]