AGENTLINK UPDATE # 56 -- 29 September 2003 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Call for tutorials: EASSS'04 * New announcements on AgentLink website * FIPA meeting, London, 19-21 November 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Call for tutorials: EASSS'04 After successful summer schools on Agent Systems in Utrecht, Saarbrucken, Prague, Bologna and Barcelona, Agentlink is planning to organise the 6th edition of this event in Liverpool, UK, 5 - 9 July 2004 European Agent Systems Summer School Researchers and teachers in this field are invited to submit a proposal for a course. A typical course is 4 hours in total, but deviations are possible. For an impression, the courses of 2001 are collected in the LNAI series of Springer Verlag (No 2086). Topics varied from foundational issues, social behaviour, learning and meta-reasoning, through applications in robotics and manufacturing (for a detailed topic list, see below). A programme for the previous school is still available via www.agentlink.org The summer schools attract about 150 students each year. Accomodation of tutors will be paid for and attending the courses is free. Some travel support for lecturers may be available - details to be confirmed later. There are several cheap connections from European cities to Liverpool, and convenient intercontinental flights to London or Manchester. Tutors are encouraged to submit a propsosal for a course, including a description of 1 page A4, experience of the tutor, level of the course (beginners, advanced), duration (2, 6, or, preferably, 4 hours). Deadline for proposals: 1 November, 2003 Notification: 1 December, 2003 reader material (max 25 pp): 1 April, 2004 To be sent to: wiebe@csc.liv.ac.uk EASSS'04 Chair: Wiebe van der Hoek, Liverpool, UK AgentLink Coordinators: Peter McBurney Liverpool, UK Terry Payne Southampton, UK EASSS'04 Board: Michael Luck Southampton, UK Onn Shehory Tel Aviv, Israel Carles Sierra Barcelona, Spain Gerhard Weiss Munchen, Germany Michael Wooldridge Liverpool, UK and the local organisers are Rafael Bordini, Wiebe van der Hoek and Valentina Tamma. POSSIBLE TOPICS: * 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 * complex systems and emergent behaviour * 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 * 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * New announcements on AgentLink website. The AgentLink website at www.agentlink.org is being reorganised, with new pages and resources, as well as updating existing pages. The first effort here has gone into the establishment of a new "Annoncements" page, which brings together information and calls from other parts of the site. This will list announcements of new journals, books, calls for submissions to journal special issues, etc. The initial announcements page is at http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/announcements.html and includes: o a call for bids to host the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in 2005. o a call for papers for a new section of the journal, Synthese, called KNOWLEDGE, RATIONALITY AND ACTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * FIPA meeting, London, 19-21 November 2003 The 30th FIPA meeting is scheduled to be held in London, November 19-21, co-located with OMG. Participation is open and free. AgentLink members and non-members alike are invited to attend and contribute to the software agents standardization activities. Further information on this meeting will be posted at: http://www.fipa.org/activities/nextmeeting.html as it becomes available.