AGENTLINK UPDATE # 36 --- 28 June 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 News Issue 7 now available * Final Notice: SIG Meetings in Prague, 9-11 July, 2001 * New job section on AgentLink web site * Light up your node ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink News Issue 7 now available The seventh issue of the AgentLink newsletter is now available online go to http://www.AgentLink.org and follow the sidebar link to "AgentLink News". As usual, hardcopies will be sent to all AgentLink members in due course. The deadline for Issue 8 is 10 September 2001; contact the editor, Paul Davidsson (mailto:Paul.Davidsson@ipd.hk-r.se) if you are interested in contributing something. Features Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce at HP Labs, Bristol Chris Preist Protecting What Your Agent Is Doing Stefan Poslad, Patricia Charlton and Monique Calisti Conference Reports Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB Eduardo Alonso, Simon Colton and Daniel Kudenko SIG Reports The Agent Based Social Simulation SIG Meeting, Amsterdam Scott Moss The Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce SIG Meeting, Amsterdam Carles Sierra SIG on Intelligent and Mobile Agents in Telecommunications and the Internet: A letter from the coordinator Volker Roth Site Report Multi-Agent Research at the Gerstner Lab Vladimir Marik and Olga Stepankova AgentLink News Redesign of AgentLink Website: Call for Information and Feedback Elizabeth Coulter-Smith The Third European Agent Systems Summer School: Prague Michael Luck Conference and Workshop Calendar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Notice: SIG Meetings in Prague, 9-11 July, 2001 SIG Meetings This is the final reminder that AgentLink SIG meetings will be held in Prague from the 9th to the 11th of July. The meetings will start at 8am on Monday 9th July, with registration immediately before. Registration for the AgentLink meetings will also possible at 4-6pm on Sunday 8th July. Further details of location and registration times, together with further details of the individual sessions appear on the AgentLink website at http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/agentlink-july2001.html The following SIGs are organising meetings. * Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Coordinator: Carles Sierra (mailto:sierra@iiia.csic.es) Frank Dignum (mailto:dignum@cs.uu.nl) * Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems Coordinator: Franco Zambonelli (mailto:franco.zambonelli@unimo.it) * Intelligent Information Agents Coordinator: Matthias Klusch (mailto:klusch@dfki.de) * Agent-Based Social Simulation Coordinator: Scott Moss (mailto:s.moss@mmu.ac.uk) Paul Davidsson (mailto:paul.davidsson@ipd.hk-r.se) * Intelligent and Mobile Agents in Telecommunications and the Internet Coordinator: Volker Roth (mailto:vroth@igd.fhg.de) 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 more details. ACAI-01/EASSS'01 Summer School, 2-13 July, 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The ACAI-01/EASSS'01 summer school 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. For more details please see the ACAI web page: http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/ACAI01/ Special Rate for AgentLink members --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * New job section on AgentLink web site As announced in AGENTLINK UPDATE #34, the AgentLink website is undergoing a significant overhaul. We have recently added a job vacancies section for jobs and studentships in the area of agent-based computing. If you have positions that you would like us to advertise to the agent community, email Elizabeth Coulter-Smith (mailto: publications@agentlink.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Light up your node The members map at www.AgentLink.org is currently being updated to include a profile for each member node. All members are listed, and marked on each national map, but only those members who provide us with up-to-date information through our new profile form have their nodes "lit up". Profiles contain information about expertise, skills, projects underway, partners being sought, software and other information relevant to the community and to the world at large. To add your profile information, simply complete the form at http://www.agentlink.org/activities/admin/ecsprofilepage.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------