AGENTLINK UPDATE # 32 --- 2 February 2001 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * New Email Addresses for AgentLink II * AgentLink Meetings in Amsterdam, February 22-23, 2001 * FREE Journal subscriptions for AgentLink II members * Travel support for students presenting papers at CIA 2001 * AgentLink News Issue 6 now available ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * New Email Addresses for AgentLink II In addition to the coordinator@agentlink.org email address, we have introduced two new email addresses to assist in dealing with correspondence. o admin@agentlink.org should be used for administrative queries relating to membership applications, membership agreements, contact information, o publications@agentlink.org should be used for notification of events to add to the workshop calendar, corrections to web pages, etc. o coordinator@agentlink.org can still be used as a more general email contact point. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Meetings in Amsterdam, 22-23 February, 2001 Three SIGs will hold their next meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 22-23 February 2001. - Agents and Electronic Commerce   Coordinator: Carles Sierra (mailto:sierra@iiia.csic.es) - Intelligent Information Agents   Coordinator: Matthias Klusch (mailto:klusch@dfki.de) - Agent-Based Social Simulation   Coordinator: Rosaria Conte (mailto:rosaria@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it) Please contact the SIG organisers directly for information on how to participate, and please ensure that you do inform us if you intend to come. For up-to-date information on the SIG meetings, go to http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/prov_timetable.htm Some hotel information for the SIG meetings is also available at http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/accomodation.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * FREE Journal subscriptions for AgentLink II members As previously, AgentLink II has negotiated subscriptions to the "International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems" published by Kluwer Academic Press. Annual subscriptions will be purchased for each full AgentLink II member node (at 31 December 2000) at a favourable rate, and journal issues will be sent by AgentLink to the technical contact point at each node. (Technical contacts please note: the journal is not your personal copy -- it is intended for your
whole group!). For more information about the journal, see: http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1387-2532 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Travel support for students presenting papers at CIA 2001 AgentLink is supporting the CIA 2001 workshop through the provision of student travel funds for student authors of accepted papers. CIA will take place in Modena, Italy on 6-8 September. In order to apply for this student travel support, please send the following information either via email to klusch@dfki.de or by postal mail to Dr. Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany, by 29 June 2001 at the latest: Detailed address and affiliation Title of accepted paper at CIA 2001 Claim for travel support Notification of acceptance of applications will be given by July 10, 2001. All expense claims will be handled directly by AgentLink II after the workshop has taken place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink News Issue 6 now available AgentLink News Issue 6 (January 2000) is now available online in PDF format. Go to http://www.AgentLink.org/ and follow the link to "newsletter". As usual, members of AgentLink II will have hardcopies (and of issue 5) posted to them soon. Features Open Standards and Open Source for Agent-Based Systems Bernard Burg, Jonathan Dale and Steven Willmott The role of agents in business to business (B2B) electronic commerce Steve Osborn Let A Million Agents Bloom: Infohabitants and Universal Information EcoSystems - FET UIE Concertation Meeting, Imperial College, December 1st 2000 Jeremy Pitt Project Reports An Overview of the SSAHLA Project - Simulation based on Software Agents and the High Level Architecture Zakaria Maamar Agent-Based Social Simulation with JAM Alexander Staller and Paolo Petta Site Reports The Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton Michael Luck, Nick Jennings and Luc Moreau Artificial Intelligence Group (AIG) at the University of York Eduardo Alonso Conference Reports Trading Agents Magnus Boman ESAW Andrea Omicini, Robert Tolksdorf and Franco Zambonelli AgentLink Reports What's happening in AgentLink? Michael Luck Report on European Agent Systems Summer School EASSS 2000 Matthias Klusch and Klaus Fischer New Call for technology take-up project proposals for innovative users and suppliers of agent technologies or middleware for distributed applications Max Lemke Conference and Workshop Calendar