AGENTLINK UPDATE # 44 --- 24 May 2002

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* Fourth European Agent Systems Summer School, Bologna 8-12 July 2002
  Early Registration Deadline Approaching

* AgentLink News Issue 9 now available

* AgentLink Meetings in Bologna (July 12, 2002)

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* Fourth European Agent Systems Summer School, Bologna 8-12 July 2002
  Early Registration Deadline Approaching

           http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2002/

After successful Summer Schools on Agent Systems in Utrecht,
Saarbruecken and Prague, Agentlink is organising the fourth such event
in Bologna, Italy 8-12 July, 2002. This is the week before the First
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
will also be held there.

Sponsored by Whitestein Technologies, IFMAS, FIPA, Agent Oriented
Software and Lost Wax, EASSS 2002 will consist of a mixture of
introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading
experts in the MAS field, and will cover the full range of theoretical
and practical aspects of agent-based computing.

It is open to anyone from research or industry, both AgentLink members
and non-members alike. A registration fee will be charged to cover
costs. 

Note that the early registration deadline is 3st May 2002, after which
the registration fee will increase.

For more details see the EASSS 2002 web pages:
http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2002/

Organised by: Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli,
Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Luck, Gerhard Weiss, Mike Wooldridge

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* AgentLink News Issue 9 now available

The ninth issue of the AgentLink newsletter is now available online --
go to http://www.agentlink.org/newsletter/
As usual, hardcopies will be sent to all AgentLink members in due
course.

This is a special issue with articles from speakers at The First
AgentLink Agent Technology Conference: Agents for Commercial
Applications.

Features
        Agents for a Service Company: The Agent Team at BT
        Simon Thompson

        LEAP: When the e-society meets the m-workforce
        Patricia Charlton and Nicolas Lhuillier

        Agents in real-world Applications: Living markets
        Christian Dannegger, Christoph Kluge and Rolf Katzengerger

        Agents in dynamic supply chain management
        Jim Stanfield

        Trading Agent Competition 2001
        Maria Fasli

        Agents in a J2EE World
        Stefan Brantschen &Thomas Haas

SIG Reports

        Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
        Frank Dignum and Carles Sierra

        Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems
        Franco Zambonelli, Federico Bergenti and Giovanna Di Marzo

Events Calendar
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* AgentLink Meetings in Bologna (July 12, 2002)

Along with the Summer School in Bologna in July, AgentLink is
organising a couple of small SIG meetings on 12th July. Two SIGs will
meet, and details of the meetings will appear on the AgentLink website
over time at
http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/meetings/July2002/index.html
and on the individual SIG pages.

  *  Agents that Learn, Adapt and Discover
     Session Organiser: Eduardo Alonso (mailto:eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk)
     SIG Coordinator: Pete Edwards (mailto:pedwards@csd.abdn.ac.uk)

  *  Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems
     SIG Coordinator: Franco Zambonelli (mailto:franco.zambonelli@unimo.it)