AGENTLINK UPDATE # 73 – 18th May 2005 This is the email newsletter of AgentLink -- Europe's Co-ordination Action 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 coordinator@agentlink.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ATC2 - Call for Demo Presentations * Agentlink News Issue 17 now available ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ATC2 - Call for Demo Presentations AgentLink III is organizing its annual business conference ATC – Agent Technology Conference, October 18, 2005 in Stockholm, collocated with the Swedish Technical Fair (http://www.tekniskamassan.se/). The event is aimed at commercial organizations interested in exploiting agent technologies to benefit their business. This one-day event will feature several invited speakers, a panel session and demo session. Refer to the following sites for past ATC conferences: http://www.agentlink.org/agents-barcelona/ http://www.agentlink.org/agents-london/ http://www.agentlink.org/agents-zurich/ We are now calling for demonstration proposals. We are interested in demonstrations of the running deployed systems (not .avi movies) that may be of interest to the business community. The demonstration stands will be located in the lobby and the demonstrators are requested to be available to present their technologies to the ATC participants during the afternoon demo session. Interested parties are expected to submit a short .pdf paragraph (but more than one A4 page) describing their system, possibly complemented by URL links no later than Monday 6th June. Submissions should be sent to the ATC programme organizer, Michal Pechoucek, at michal.pechoucek@agentlink.org. The number of demo stands is limited and in the situation of a high number of good-quality proposals, we will allocate the places in the first-come-first-served basis. Michal Pechoucek AgentLink III ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Agentlink News Issue 17 now available The sixteenth issue of the AgentLink newsletter is now available online at: http://www.agentlink.org/newsletter/ As usual, hardcopies will be sent to all AgentLink members in due course. Deadline for contributions for the next issue: 19th June 2005. AgentLink Newsletter Issue #17 Features - The Simulation of Agent Systems Brian Logan - Collusion in Agent Based Systems Alex Rogers and Nicholas R. Jennings - System Innovation Award at IA2004, Erfurt David Sislak, Martin Rehák and Michal Pechouek Agent Research Overview - The Value of Agents in Business Integration Alois Reitbauer - Managing Virtual Organisations on the Grid using Agent Technology Alun Preece et al. - Agents and the Grid – a personal view of the opportunity before us David De Roure Perspectives - Be eGov agent! Anastase Adonis AgentLink Technical Forum 2 - PROMAS Programming Multi-Agent Systems Mehdi Dastani and Jorge Gomez Sanz - SELFORG Self-Organisation in Multi-Agent Systems Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Anthony Karageorgos - AOSE Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Massimo Cossentino, Carole Bernon and Juan Pavón - MARA Multiagent Resource Allocation Ulle Endriss - ENV Environments For Multi-Agent Systems Danny Weyns and Tom Holvoet - SWA AgentLink and KnowledgeWeb, Valentina Tamma and Terry R. Payne Standards Report - Latest News from the Standardisation World Monique Calisti Industrial Uptake of Agent Technology - Living Systems® Adaptive Transportation Networks Monique Calisti, Klaus Dorer, Christian Dannegger Event Reports - The Second European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems - EUMAS’04 Chiara Ghidini, Paolo Giorgini, Wiebe van der Hoek, Pablo Noriega, Steven Willmott, Carles Sierra and Ulises Cortes Garcia - First International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems ArgMAS Iyad Rahwan, Pavlos Moraitis and Chris Reed - Cooperative Information Agents - The 8th International Workshop, CIA 2004 Terry R. Payne and Matthias Klusch Books and Book Reviews - The Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems: The HarmonIA Framework by Javier Vázquez-Salceda, A Review by Gopal Ramchurn - Geosimulation: Automata-based modeling of Urban Phenomena by Itzhak Benenson and Paul Torrens, A Review by Jamie Lawrence - Developing Semantic Web Services by P. Alesso and C. F. Smith A Review by Monika Solanki Conference Calendar We are always interested in receiving articles for the newsletter. If you are interested in writing a short, high level article, or want to provide a report on projects or industrial agent systems, then email editor@agentlink.org