CASA - Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activities

Organising Committee

Monique Calisti (Chair)
Omer Rana
Stefan Poslad
Terry Payne
James Odell

standards bodies

W3C
GGF
OMG
IEEE FIPA

news

17-08-2005
Details about applying for Travel Grants to attend TFG-CASA are now available.

11-08-2005
The CASA program for the Budapest meeting has been announced.

Program - Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activities

	Session 1 (Thursday 15th September, 09:30 - 12:45)
09:15-09:30	Welcome, TFG-CASA agenda, expected outcomes and goals TFG chair
09:30-09:45	Participants introduction all
09:45-10:00	The Agentlink WP2 Goals and Activity M. Calisti
10:00-10:30	The Global Grid Forum Standardization Activities O. Rana
10:30-11:00	The FIPA IEEE Standardization Activities S. Poslad
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-11:45	The OMG Agent-related Standardization Activities J. Odell
10:30-11:00	Discussion around the following main points: - How the various standardization bodies/activities relate? - Are there overlapping technical areas these bodies cover? Which ones? From which perspective? - Which body has the strongest industrial participation? Why? - Which body has the strongest academic participation? Why? - How expensive is to participate to these various standardization bodies - membership fees, committment, frequency of meetings, etc.? - How easy is to access information/specification/results of the various bodies? Which suggestions for improvements?
	Session 2 (Thursday 15th September, 14:30 - 18:30)
14:30-14:45	Short welcome, review of TFG goals, agenda and morning's outcomes - especially for new-comers TFG chair
14:45-15:15	The W3C Standardization Activities T. Payne
15:15-16:00	Discussion around the following main points: - Any left item from the morning - Preparing coordination sessions - what are the needs for standardization with: AIF TFG, ASOE TFG, and PROMAS TFG.
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:00	Coordination session with TFG-AIF representatives
17:00-17:45	Coordination session with TFG-AOSE representatives
17:45-18:00	Wrap-up of Day 1
	Session 3 (Friday 16th September, 09:30 - 12:45)
09:15-09:30	Welcome, TFG-CASA agenda, expected outcomes and goals - "repetita iuvant" especially for the newcomers! TFG chair
09:30-09:45	Participants introduction for newcomers all
09:45-10:30	Coordination session with PROMAS representatives
10:30-11:00	Summarizing main results of the various TFG coordination sessions
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-11:45	Discussion to summarize main meeting results: - The current agent standardization landscap - The role of Agentlink (or an equivalent coordination network /organization) in such a scenario - Major work left for standardization bodies - Suggestions & recommendations to 1) Improving visibility, 2) Improving participation, 3) Improving uptake
12:30-12:45	Meeting wrap up and next steps

Important Information

Location - AL3-TF3 will be co-located with the 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-AgentSystems (CEEMAS 2005), also in Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 September 2005. Directions to the event can be found here.

TF3 Programme - the programme of the TF3 event, and of the other TF3 events can be found here.

Registration - is now open for the TFG III. Details are now available on hotels and accomodation, and on the social events.

Technical Forum Groups - more information on the Third AgentLink III Technical Forum can be found at the AL3-TF3 home page.

Organising Committee

standards bodies

news

Sponsors

Program - Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activities

Important Information