AGENTLINK UPDATE # 34 --- 11 April 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/

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* IMPORTANT: Call for information

* Third European Agent Systems Summer School, Prague, July 2-13 2001 

* Day rate for Summer School for AgentLink SIG meeting participants

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* IMPORTANT: Call for Information

The AgentLink website is undergoing a slow but steady overhaul that
will continue over the coming months. This will involve both the
design of the site and the content, and you may already have noticed
the new homepage design.

However, we also want to make the web site the ultimate resource for
agent researchers and industry. We want it to be the first port of
call for those looking for collaborators for European projects, or for
industrialists looking for academic expertise, and vice versa. We want
it to be a resource for instructors, and for students, and anyone else
with an interest in agent systems. This can only be done if members
provide us with appropriate up-to-date information, so we are relying
on you to help. 

There are two specific things you can do.

1. Please complete and return the following form on the site
   requesting up-to-date information about AgentLink members and
   their expertise.

   http://www.agentlink.org/admin/docs/profile-page.html   

2. Over the next few weeks, we will also be requesting further
   information about publications, software, curricula, and so
   on. Please respond in a timely fashion to any requests you may
   receive for information from us. This will minimise the effort
   involved from all of us, and make the AgentLink site a valuable
   resource.

If you have any comments or suggestions for us to take on board during
this process, please let us know by mailing

     Elizabeth Coulter-Smith publications@agentlink.org
     Michael Luck coordinator@agentlink.org

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* Third European Agent Systems Summer School, Prague, July 2-13 2001 

       Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence ACAI-01
                          incorporating
         The Third European Agent Systems Summer School
              "Multi-Agent Systems & Applications"

                       July 2-13 , 2001
                        Prague, Czech

                http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/ACAI01/

The ACAI-01/EASSS'01 courses will present the current state of the art
in theoretical foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) as well as
demonstrate the applicability of these systems in many practical
tasks. The presentations will highlight different aspects and
viewpoints of this recently established and very active scientific
field. The course will be formed by

* plenary invited mini-courses (2-6 hours) delivered by internationally
  leading experts in the MAS field,
* student sessions,
* affiliated events.

ACAI-01 will be of benefit to professionals interested in the emerging
technology of MAS as well as researchers and postgraduate students
interested in this exciting field.

For more details please see the ACAI web page:
http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/ACAI01/

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* Day rate for Summer School for AgentLink SIG meeting participants

AgentLink members participating in the AgentLink meeting in Prague
(July 9-11) will also be able to register for individual days of
ACAI'01/EASSS'01 at a specially reduced rate of 50 Euros per
day. Simply register using the web form for AgentLink participants,
using this rate for calculating the required fees.

This rate is ONLY available to AgentLink SIG meeting participants; the
rate will not be published on the ACAI'01 web site.

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