Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Wed Sep 15 10:17:08 2004


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DIMACS: Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences
"The topic of game theory and mechanism design has involved many
leading computer scientists with economists and, as a result, for the
first time many computer scientists are taking serious note of both
the problems and the methods of economics. Analysis of the analogies
between the growth of social networks and the development of the
Internet have led to important insights about both areas and serious
interactions between computer scientists and sociologists. Problems of
metasearch have engaged computer scientists with political scientists
and economists working on voting and social choice. We believe that
the time is ripe to build on these early and exciting
connections."They will be holding workshops, seminars, and tutorials
during 2004-2006.
<http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/2004_CSEC/overview.html>

CybelePro Micro Edition
Intelligent Automation announces the release of Cybele-ME for PDA
running Linux and Windows-CE. Cybele-ME is an optimized version of
CybelePro for J2ME CDC environment. Cybele-ME is available with
CybelePro v1.1. Users can now develop a Cybele-based agent application
using only one set of APIs, which could run on a PDA or a
workstation. Distributed agents seamlessly interact with each other
independent of the platform.
<http://www.cybelepro.com/featur_pda.shtml>

IADIS e-Commerce 2004
The IADIS e-Commerce 2004 conference is a major international event
for researchers,academics, industry specialists, practitioners &amp;
students interested in the advances in,and applications of,
e-Commerce. The participants will have an opportunity to presentand
observe the latest research results, and ideas in these areas. This
conference aimsto cover both technological as well as
non-technological issues related to this new business paradigm. To be
held 14-16 December 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal. Papers due 17 September
2004.
<http://www.iadis.org/ec2004/>

NorMAS 2005
The First International Symposium on Normative Agent Systems
(NormAS2005) is a one day symposium that is part of the 2005 AISB
convention with the general theme "Social Intelligence and Interaction
in Animals, Robots and Agents". It is to be held 12-15 April 2005 in
the University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield,
England. Papers due 31 October 2004.
<http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/aisb05/>

Agent Technology Conference
The third International Agent Technology Conference is to be held 1
October 2004 in Zurich. ATC is organized by the Agentlink consortium
and aims to bring together commercial organizations interested in
exploiting agenttechnologies to benefit their businesses. The program
includes presentations by world-leading agent technology experts from
some of the most innovative companies in the field, as well as
representatives from traditionalindustries reporting on their agent
based solutions. Participation to this event is free but requires
registration.
<http://www.agentlink.org/agents-zurich/>

Agents of Change
A Computerworld article on autonomous agents. It talks about the
NASA robots and satellites as well as the trading agent competition
and even mentions AAMAS. The real world is starting to notice us.
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,95672,00.htm\
l>

Negotiating in Service-Oriented Environments
A short article from ACM Queue magazine on how software is on its
way to becoming a service and how this will give rise to a service market
and the need for (automated?) negotiation.
<http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=182>

ConceptNet
ConceptNet is a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and
natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical
textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box
(without additional statistical training).
<http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/conceptnet/>

BPEL4WS
The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services
specification. BPEL4WS is a worflow description language supported by
IBM and Microsoft, among others.
<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-bpel/>

ISMIS 2005
The International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent
Systems is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged
both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. It
is to be held 25-28 May 2005 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Papers due
15 October 2004.
<http://ismis05.univ-lyon1.fr>

CLIMA V
The fifth workshop on computational logic in multi-agent systems is
to be held 29-30 September 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.
<http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaV/>

Trust Competition Testbed
Trust as a form of social control in multi-agent systems is a
growing field of research. A diverse collection of trust modeling
representations and algorithms has been developed in recent years;
however, a unified research direction has yet to be established. We
invite discussion of a Competition Testbed for agent trust
technologies, by which to challenge researchers to solve the most
prominent problems in the field. The development of a Competition
Testbed can foster a cohesive scoping of trust research problems, as
well as metrics by which to measure the success of technologies in
reaching those objectives.
<http://www.lips.utexas.edu/~kfullam/competition/>

FLAIRS 2005 - Intelligent Agent Systems Track
The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for academics and
practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and
solutions related to intelligent agent theory, design and
implementation. To be held 16-18 May 2005 in Clearwater Beach,
Florida. Papers due 22 October 2004.
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~rahimi/flairs05/>

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Edited by Jose M. Vidal.