AGENTLINK UPDATE # 67 – 13th December 2004 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Launch of the updated AgentLink Web Site, including: - The AgentLink Publication Clearing House - Semantic Web annotations for AgentLink Resources * LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FOR EUMAS 2004 (16-17 December, 2004 - Barcelona, Spain) (Late Registration: 13th December, 2004) * AGENTLINK III TECHNICAL FORUM 2 & Call for TFG Proposals (28th February, 2005 - Ljubljana, Slovenia) (Call Deadline: 31st December, 2004) * Call for Papers in AgentLink Sponsored HoloMAS 2005 (22-24 August, 2005 - Copenhagen, Denmark) (Abstract Call Deadline: 19th February, 2005) * Books Available for Review for future AgentLink NEWS Newsletter Issues * Agentlink III: Newsletter Request for Articles for Issue #17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Launch of the updated AgentLink Web Site The AgentLink Web Site has been updated and now features: - The AgentLink Publication Clearing House - Semantic Web annotations for AgentLink Resources The AgentLink Publication Clearing House is a community-led index of papers and publications for Agent Based Research. It supports the uploading of papers to the site; details of the publications are then indexed and made available through a browsable and searchable interface. In addition, an RSS feed has been provided to support syndication of the latest uploaded papers (which also appear on the AgentLink home page). The underlying technology is based on the ePrints archive (http://www.eprints.org/). Several of the resources published on the AgentLink web site are now available as both HTML formatted pages, and RDF/OWL annotated pages (thus providing support for the Semantic Web). This comes curtesy of the ODESeW Semantic Web Portal, developed by Universitat Politechnica Madrid, as part of the KnowledgeWeb project (http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/). The updated AgentLink Web Site can be found at http://www.agentlink.org/ Of course, the success of any community led resource is dependent on the community updating the resource themselves. So we urge you to submit papers to the site. There may be some errors or repeated entries in the current archive - we are in the process of cleaning this up right now. If you have technical problems please direct them to web@agentlink.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FOR EUMAS 2004 16-17 December, 2004 - Barcelona, Spain THE SECOND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS INTRODUCTION The aim of this second European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial European efforts. For more information on topics of interest and how to submit, refer to: http://www.eumas.org/2004/ Invited speakers: Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa Laboratories) Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) For hotel and conference registration: go to http://www.eumas.org/2004/index.html IMPORTANT DATES Late Registration 13th December ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * AgentLink III Second Technical Forum (AL3-TF2) - Call for TFG Proposals AgentLink III has established a periodic Technical Forum (AL3-TF), in which Technical Forum Groups (TFGs) meet to discuss issues of key interest. After the First AgentLink III Technical Forum (Rome, 30 June - 2 July 2004), the Second AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF2) will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 28/2/2005 to 1/3/2005, and host the meetings of the AL3 TFGs in form of either half-day or full-day events (longer durations to be negotiated on request). Again, TFGs will be selected on a "per event" basis, in response to *bids* for each Technical Forum: so, also AL3-TF1 TFGs have to present their bids again if they aim at carrying on their activity. Decisions will be made made in relation to links to related areas, industrial relevance and contribution to roadmapping. New areas that have no obvious forum for discussion of important issues will be prioritised. More precisely, AgentLink III will accept TFG of the following sorts: - Application-area TFGs, focusing on promising application areas for agent technology - Research-area TFGs, which are basically collections of AL3 nodes, working on closely-related advanced agent research (interdisciplinary themes favoured here) - Inter-network TFGs, promoting links to related networks of excellence and to related integrated projects. Details of the TFGs will be soon posted on the web-site at the following location: http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf2/ Proposals for holding a TFG in the Second AgentLink III Technical Forum should be sent to the Forum Chairs through the AL3 Web site. Dates TFG Proposal Submission: 31 December 2004 TFG Preliminary Notification: 15 January 2005 AL3-TF2 Preliminary Program: 31 January 2005 AL3-TF2 Takes Place: 28 February - 1 March 2005 Contacts - Matjaz Gams, Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta (AL3-TF2 Forum Chairs) tf2-chair@agentlink.org - Andrea Omicini (AL3-WP5 "Technical Forum" Coordinator) wp5@agentlink.org, Andrea.Omicini@agentlink.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers in AgentLink Sponsored HoloMAS 2005 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications Of Holonic And Multi-agent Systems 22-24 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark Organizers of the leading event in application of holonic and multi-agent systems encourages researchers and industrial practitioners to submit theoretical papers with strong application potential, case studies and industrial application Papers. The conference follows several years of the HoloMAS Workshop. Successful submissions will be included in Springer LNCS. http://gerstner.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2005/ Organization is supported by AgentLink and I*PROMS Dates Abstract Submission: 19 February 2005 Full Paper Submission: 28 February 2005 Acceptance Notification: 15 April 2005 HoloMAS Takes Place: 22 - 24 August 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Books Available for Review for future AgentLink NEWS Newsletter Issues The following books have recently been published, and AgentLink has copies available for review. If you are interested in reviewing any of these books for a future Issue of the AgentLink NEWS Newsletter, then please contact editor@agentlink.org Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents – Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns Organizational Principles for Multi-Agent Architectures – Chris an Aart Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Agent-Based reasoning – Nicholeta Neagu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Agentlink III: Newsletter Request for Articles for Issue #17 We are in the process of planning the next Agentlink Newsletter (Issue 17) and are interested in receiving articles. The quality of the newsletters depends on the contribution and diversity of these articles, which are typically short overviews, project reports, industrial deployments, etc. The closing date for submissions for the next Newsletter is 15th February 2005. If you are interested in writing a short, high level article, or want to provide a report on projects or industrial agent systems, please email editor@agentlink.org, outlining the article you are interested in contributing. For more details, visit http://www.agentlink.org/newsletter/index.html