AGENTLINK UPDATE # 23 --- 9 December 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/

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* AgentLink News Issue 4 now available

* All SIGs to meet in Saarbrucken

* Coordinator change of address

* AgentLink 2 proposal text available

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* AgentLink News Issue 4 now available

The fourth issue of the AgentLink newsletter is now available online
-- go to http://www.AgentLink.org/ and follow the sidebar link to
"newsletter". As usual, hardcopies will be sent to all AgentLink
members. 

The deadline for Issue 5 is 7 February 2000; contact the editor, Paul
Davidsson (mailto:Paul.Davidsson@ide.hk-r.se) if you are interested in
contributing something.

Features 

       Mozart: A Programming System for Agent Applications 
       Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi 

       Building Agent Based Systems in April 
       Nikolaos Skarmeas and Keith L. Clark

Project Reports 

       Towards Interoperable Command and Control Systems based on Multi-Agent
       Systems 
       Zakaria Maamar 

       Return from the Ant: Synthetic Ecosystems for Manufacturing Control 
       Sven A. Brueckner 

Conference and Workshop Reports 

       Pushing Agent Research: ATAL-99 
       Tom Wagner 

       Ninth European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent
       World (MAAMAW'99) 
       Magnus Boman 

       First International Workshop on Agent Communication Languages (ACL'99) 
       Frank Dignum 

       Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce Workshop (AMEC'99) 
       Fredrik Ygge 

       The First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems
       (AOIS'99) 
       Gerd Wagner and Eric Yu 

       Agent Programming in RoboCup'99 
       Magnus Boman 

       The First European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'99) 
       Mike Wooldridge 

AgentLink/SIG Reports 

       What's happening in AgentLink? 
       Mike Wooldridge 

       AMEC, MSEAS, ABSS, I2A and MACC SIG meeting reports 
       AgentLink SIG coordinators 

       Conference and Workshop Calendar 

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* All SIGs to meet in Saarbrucken

All AgentLink's special interest groups (including IATA SIG) have
agreed now agreed to meet in Saarbrucken between 20 February 2000 and
23 February 2000. A WWW page is being developed to keep everyone
updated about organisation of the meetings:

   http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/sig-meetings.html 

The meetings are hosted by Matthias Klusch (mailto:klusch@dfki.de).

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* Coordinator change of address

From 1 January 2000, Mike Wooldridge (AgentLink coordinator) will be
moving to the University of Liverpool, with contact details as
follows:

 Department of Computer Science       tel    (+44 151) 794 3670
 University of Liverpool              fax    (+44 151) 794 3715
 Liverpool L69 7ZF, United Kingdom    mailto:M.J.Wooldridge@csc.liv.ac.uk
 
However, the AgentLink administration (i.e., Hugo) will stay in London
until the end of AgentLink 1 (it turned out to be too complicated to move
everything).  All the standard email addresses, etc, will continue to
work, you continue to submit claim forms to Hugo, as before, and Mike will
continue to coordinate from Liverpool; in other words, everything will
continue as now until the end of AgentLink 1.

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* AgentLink 2 proposal text available

Following the AgentLink management committee meeting of 19 November,
the Commission agreed to the submission of the AgentLink II proposal,
which has been waiting in the wings since May this year. (The only
reason for the delay was that it was considered undesirable to submit
the proposal too long before the end of AgentLink 1.) The proposal has
now been submitted, and AgentLink members can obtain a PDF or
PostScript copy of Parts B and C of the proposal by mailing to
coordinator@agentlink.org. We should know whether the application is
successful by Spring 2000.

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