AGENTLINK UPDATE # 39 --- 12 October 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 Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December 4-6, 2001) * AgentLink Summer School 2002: Final Call for Course Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December 4-6, 2001) To take advantage of the strong links between the interests of AgentLink and of OntoWeb, AgentLink is co-locating several SIG meetings with the OntoWeb meetings in Amsterdam from 4th to 6th December 2001. The dates for each SIG vary slightly. Details of the OntoWeb meeting can be found at http://www.ontoweb.org/workshop/ontoweb2/OntoWeb2.html Four AgentLink SIGs will meet, in a number of different sessions spread across the three-day period. Details of the sessions being organised will appear over time on the AgentLink website at http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/agentlink-dec2001.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) Tuesday 4 December 2001, 14:00-17:30 Wednesday 5 December 2001, 9:00-17:30 * Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems Coordinator: Franco Zambonelli (mailto:franco.zambonelli@unimo.it) Wednesday 5 December 2001, 9:00-17:30 Thursday 6 December 2001, 9:00-13:00 * Intelligent Information Agents Coordinator: Matthias Klusch (mailto:klusch@dfki.de) Sonia Bergamaschi (mailto:sonia.bergamaschi@unimo.it) Tuesday 4 December 2001, 14:00-17:30 Wednesday 5 December 2001, 9:00-17:30 * Agent-Based Social Simulation Coordinator: Scott Moss (mailto:s.moss@mmu.ac.uk) Paul Davidsson (mailto:paul.davidsson@ipd.hk-r.se) Wednesday 5 December 2001, 9:00-17:30 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Summer School 2002: Final 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