AGENTLINK UPDATE # 35 --- 24 May 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Meetings in Prague (July 9-11, 2001) * New SIG Coordinator and Focus: IATA becomes SIGMA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Meetings in Prague, Czech Republic (July 9-11, 2001) Along with the Summer School in Prague in July, AgentLink is organising SIG meetings from the 9th to the 11th. Five SIGs will meet, in a number of different sessions spread across the three-day period. Initial outlines of the sessions being organised are given below, with further details appearing on the AgentLink website over time at http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/agentlink-july2001.html and on the individual SIG pages. * Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Coordinator: Carles Sierra (mailto:sierra@iiia.csic.es) Frank Dignum (mailto:dignum@cs.uu.nl) 1. Industrial Session Trading Financial Products 2. Negotiation Techniques 3. Institutions and Virtual Enterprises * Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems Coordinator: Franco Zambonelli (mailto:franco.zambonelli@unimo.it) 1. Methodologies and Tools WG Agent Methodologies 2. Joint Session with I2A SIG: C3 WG Coordination and Software Architectures for Agent Systems 3 Joint Session with SIGMA Mobile Agents * Intelligent Information Agents Coordinator: Matthias Klusch (mailto:klusch@dfki.de) 1. Agent-Based Data and Knowledge Management WG Information Extraction 2. Agent-Based Data and Knowledge Management WG Information Integration 3. Adaptive Information Agents WG 4. Joint Session with MSEAS SIG Coordination and Software Architectures for Agent Systems * Agent-Based Social Simulation Coordinator: Scott Moss (mailto:s.moss@mmu.ac.uk) Paul Davidsson (mailto:paul.davidsson@ipd.hk-r.se) 1. Policy 2. Scalable Multi-Agent Systems for Dynamic Environments 3. Focus and direction of the ABSS SIG. * Intelligent and Mobile Agents in Telecommunications and the Internet Coordinator: Volker Roth (mailto:vroth@igd.fhg.de) 1. Agent Applications 2 Joint Session with MSEAS SIG Mobile Agents Limited travel support is available for those participating in SIG meetings. Please contact the SIG organisers directly for information on how to participate, and/or check the SIG web pages at http://www.agentlink.org/activities/sigs/ for updates in due course. Participation from members new to the SIGs is encouraged. Please note that early flight and hotel booking is advised! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * New SIG Coordinator and Focus: IATA becomes SIGMA Steve Corley recently stepped down as coordinator of the IATA SIG, and it seemed that this might offer a good opportunity to reconsider the SIG's focus and introduce issues relating to mobile agents. Volker Roth, who has been involved in AgentLink activities previously, lecturing at the 2000 Summer School for example, has been engaged in work on mobile agents and security, and agreed to take over as coordinator. As part of the effort to include mobile agents within the SIG, Volker has explicitly modified the name to Special Interest Group for Intelligent & Mobile Agents (in Telecommunications and the Internet) The rationale is that the new title is general enough to remain stable in the face of potentially changing interests of active SIG members. Yet it is specific enough to attract people with interest in intelligent as well as mobile agents, and accounts for the previous application focus. Specifically, the SIG will address mobile agents & infrastructure - applications, standardization, interoperability, and research - and intelligent agents - applications in telecommunications and the internet. The first meeting of SIGMA will take place at the AgentLink meeting in Prague in July. Details can be found in the previous article. If you are interested in giving a presnetation, on a relevant system or application, contact Volker directly (mailto:vroth@igd.fhg.de) To join SIGMA's mailing list, simply send an email to listserv@igd.fhg.de with "subscribe sig-ma " in the body. The new SIG website is at http://www.semoa.org/agentlink/index.html.