AGENTLINK UPDATE # 47 --- 10 October 2002 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 Spring School: Final Call for Course Proposals * Inter-Network SIG: Agents and Logic * Draft Software Report Now Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Spring School: Final Call for Course Proposals The Fifth European Agent Systems Spring School (EASSS'03) Barcelona, Spain 10-14 February, 2003 !!! CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS !!! Saarbruecken, Prague and Bologna, which have attracted over 150 students each year, Agentlink (www.agentlink.org) is planning to organise the fifth European Agent School in Barcelona, 10 - 14 February, 2003. The Fifth European Agent Systems Spring School will not be a Summer School in 2003: anticipating the end AgentLink II in the summer of 2003 and the AAMAS conference in July that year, we have decided to move the School to February, and we will refer to it as EASSS'03. About the same time, AgentLink SIG meetings, Agentcities Information Days, and the 2nd Agent Technology Conference will take place in Barcelona. 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). Note that, due to moving EASSS forward, the schedule for submitting course material is rather tight. Tutors unable to comply to the deadline can also make their material electronically available via the website of AgentLink, in the first half of January 2003. Accommodation 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 Barcelona. 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, 4, or 6 hours), by email, to Wiebe van der Hoek (wiebe@csc.liv.ac.uk) by 15 October 2002. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 15 October, 2002 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 2002 Slides and/or other materials for proceedings: 22 November, 2002 mailto: wiebe@csc.liv.ac.uk The EASSS'03 committee consists of Wiebe van der Hoek Liverpool, United Kingdom Michael Luck Southampton, United Kingdom Carles Sierra Barcelona, Spain Gerhard Weiss Munchen, Germany Mike Wooldridge Liverpool, United Kingdom 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 * ontologies * 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Inter-Network SIG: Agents and Logic New inter-network activity, funded jointly by AgentLink and CoLogNET, aims to enhance interactions between the Agent and Computational Logic communities. The link between agents and logic is important to both the Agents and Computational Logic communities: to the Agents community since logic-based approaches already have a strong profile, and are likely to grow in importance especially as verification becomes more necessary; to the Computational Logic community since agents represent a key application area involving a wide range of relevant techniques. While CoLogNET on its own might contain a little about agent applications, and AgentLink contain a little about logic, this formalised activity aims to allow more expertise/ideas to flow between the networks, thus providing more chance of productive technology transfer. For more details, contact Michael Fisher (mailto: M.Fisher@csc.liv.ac.uk) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Draft Agent Software Report Now Available AgentLink has commissioned a report on software products available for agent systems, now available from the AgentLink website at http://www.agentlink.org/resources/software-report.html The report is a draft that covers a large number of systems but is not exhaustive. It is intended to provide an indicative review and survey of the range of softwar available to developers and the community. If you have comments to feed back to the next draft of the report, please mail coordinator@agentlink.org