AGENTLINK UPDATE # 50 --- 22 December 2002

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* Agent-Based Social Simulation SIG, Barcelona

* Agents Barcelona, Spain, 3-14 February, 2003: Hotel Booking!

* AgentLink News Issue 11 now available

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* Agent-Based Social Simulation SIG, Barcelona

AgentLink is co-locating several SIG meetings with the Agentcities
Information Days in Barcelona, Spain from 3rd to 4th February 2003. In
previous announcements, the email address for the ABSS Coodinator was
incorrect. The correct contact follows.

  *  Agent-Based Social Simulation 
     Coordinator: Paul Davidsson (mailto:paul.davidsson@bth.se)
                  Monday 3 February 2003, 9:00-17:30
                  Tuesday 4 February 2003, 9:00-17:30 

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* Agents Barcelona, Spain, 3-14 February, 2003: Hotel Booking!

Hotel rooms are being held until 31st December 2003. Make your booking
now!

Hotels for the SIG meetings, 3-4 February, are booking up quickly -
make your reservation now to ensure you have a place. See the
Agentcities web pages for details:
http://www.agentcities.org/EUNET/ID3/hotels.php

Similarly, rooms for the Spring School, 10-14 February, are also being
held until the end of December. For details, see
http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2003/register/hotels.html

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* AgentLink News Issue 11 now available

The eleventh 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.

Features

        Agent Technology: Roadmap Abstract and FP6 Expresion of
        Interest - Towards AgentLink III?
        Michael Luck

        FIPA and the evolution of the specifications
        Monique Calisti

        The Agentcities Task Force
        Jonathan Dale, Steven Willmott, Bernard Burg,
        Patricia Charlton, Paul O'Brien

        Agents and Logic: And Inter-Network SIG
        Michael Fisher

Book Reviews

        An Introduction to Multiagent Systems
        Gerhard Weiss

        Understanding Agent Systems
        Simon Parsons

Conference Reports

        CEEMAS 2002
        Barbara Dunin-Keplicz

        AAMAS-II
        Eduardo Alonso, Daniel Kudenko, Dimitar Kazakov

        NETTAB 2002
        Paolo Romanom Emanuela Merelli

        CIA 2001
        Matthias Klusch

        EASSS 2002
        Steve Munroe

        UKMAS 2001
        Mark d'Inverno

SIG Reports

        Agents that Learn, Adapt and Dicsover
        Eduardo Alonso

Events Calendar