AGENTLINK UPDATE # 57 -- 30 January 2004

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AgentLink III Announcement

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AgentLink III Announcement

                            
After negotiations with the European Commission through the second half
of 2003, AgentLink III started officially on 1 January 2004.
The project will run until 31 December 2005.    Co-ordination for the
project will be undertaken by Peter McBurney from the University of
Liverpool and Terry Payne from the University of Southampton, UK.    You
can contact us via:

      Peter McBurney:          p.j.mcburney@csc.liv.ac.uk

      Terry Payne:             trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk

There will be several changes in the structure of AgentLink III from
what has gone before, and more details of these changes will be provided
in due course.    However, AgentLink III will seek to continue the
previous activities in one form or another.

For example, we have already decided on a date and location for the 2004
European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2004).   This will be held
in Liverpool, UK, from 5 - 9 July 2004, ably organized by Wiebe van der
Hoek and his team.    Details are still being finalized, so please watch
this page for updates:

      http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2004/index.html

Organizations that were members of AgentLink in the past WILL need to
complete a new membership application form for AgentLink III.  We will
inform everyone of the procedures for doing this within the next few
weeks.    
Because this is a project under the new Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6) of the EC, many rules and administration procedures are
different from the past, and we are currently putting in place the
people and systems for the new project. Please bear with us while they
are put in place.

Finally, our success in winning sponsorship from the EC for a third
AgentLink project would not have been possible without the hard work and
dedication of Michael Luck over the last 4 years!All involved in
AgentLink III are very grateful to Mike for his immense contribution.


-- Peter McBurney and Terry Payne