AGENTLINK UPDATE # 37 --- 31 July 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 Summer School 2002: Call for Course Proposals * AgentLink Information Request * Travel Support for CEEMAS'01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Summer School 2002: Call for Course Proposals After successful Summer Schools on Agent Systems in Utrecht, Saarbruecken and Prague, which have attracted over 150 students each year, Agentlink (www.agentlink.org) is planning to organise the fourth such event in Bologna, Italy in 2002. The Fourth European Agent Systems Summer School, will take place in Bologna, Italy, 8-12 July, 2002, one week before the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems will be held there. Researchers and lecturers in the field of agent-based systems are invited to submit proposals for courses. Typically, courses are 4 hours in total, but deviations are possible. A representative sample of courses can be found in volume 2086 of Springer's LNAI series, "Multi-Agent Systems and Applications". Relevant topics vary from foundational issues, social behaviour, learning and meta-reasoning, through applications in robotics, manufacturing, etc (for a detailed topic list, see below). Accomodation and subsistence expenses for tutors will be provided, and attendance at other courses is free, but tutors are encouraged to find alternative sources to support travel to Bologna. Tutors are invited to submit propsosals for courses, including a description of 1 page A4, experience of the tutor, level of the course (beginners, advanced) and duration (2, 6, or, preferably, 4 hours), by email, to Wiebe van der Hoek (wiebe@cs.uu.nl) by 14th October 2001. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 14 October, 2001 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 2001 Slides and/or other materials for proceedings: 1 March, 2002 mailto: wiebe@cs.uu.nl The EASSS'02 committee consists of Paolo Ciancarini Bologna, Italy Wiebe van der Hoek Utrecht, Netherlands and Liverpool, UK Michael Luck Southampton, United Kingdom Andrea Omicini Bologna, Italy Gerhard Weiss Munchen, Germany Mike Wooldridge Liverpool, United Kingdom Franco Zambonelli Bologna, Italy Course topics may include, but are not limited to: * action selection and planning * adaptation and learning * agent architectures * agent-based software engineering * agent communication languages * artificial market systems and electronic commerce * autonomous robots * believability * communication, collaboration, and interaction of humans and agents * coordinating perception, thought, and action * designing agent systems * expert assistants * evolution of agents * foundational issues * games and agents * human-like qualities of synthetic agents * information agents * instructability * integration and coordination of multiple activities * knowledge acquisition and management * integration and coordination of multiple activities * knowledge acquisition and management * logics for agents * lessons learned from deployed agents * lifelike qualities * meta-modeling and meta-reasoning * middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers) * mobile agents * modeling the behavior of other agents * models of emotion, motivation, or personality * multi-agent teams * multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration * multi-agent simulation, verification, and validation * network agents * organization of agent societies * privacy and agents * real-time performance * standards for agents * synthetic agents * system support for the implementation of agents * virtual markets * user modeling ------------------------------------------------------------------ * AgentLink Information Request As part of our ongoing efforts to evaluate the impact and contribution of AgentLink II to the agent-based systems research and development communities, it is vital that we elicit feedback from members. In particular, we need to provide information to the European Commission about any * collabrative activities between industrial and academic member nodes; * collaborations established and project proposals submitted as a result of AgentLink II; * new research areas investigated as a result of AgentLink II; and * publications resulting from AgentLink activities. It will not take long for you to provide this information. Please do so by emailing coordinator@agentlink.org as soon as you can. Your contribution is important and valuable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Travel Support for CEEMAS'01 The Second International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS'01) will take place from 26 to 29 September 2001 in Cracow, Poland. AgentLink has agreed to sponsor CEEMAS'01 with some travel grants to CEEMAS'01 speakers from Central and Eastern European countries who are AgentLink members. Details of the conference are available at http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~ceemas/ and further information about the travel support is available from Barbara Dunin-Keplicz (keplicz@mimuw.edu.pl)