Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Mon Nov 15 13:17:11 2004


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CCGrid 2005
CCGrid2005, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval
pending), is designed to bring together international leaders who are
pioneering researchers, developers, and users of clusters, networks,
and Grid architectures and applications. The symposium will also serve
as a forum to present the latest work, and highlight related
activities from around the world. Papers due 1 December 2004. To be
held 9-12 May 2005 in Cardiff, UK.
<http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/>

ICWS 2005
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005)
isthe THIRD year of ICWS focusing on Web Services. The long-term goal
ofICWS is to build up a reputable and respectable conference for
theinternational community. ICWS is a forum for researchers and
industrypractitioners to exchange information regarding advancements
in thestate of the art and practice of Web Services, as well as to
identifythe emerging research topics and define the future of Web
Servicescomputing. ICWS 2005 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
TechnicalSteering Committee (a.k.a. Technical Community) for Services
Computing(TSC-SC) and will be co-located with the 2005 IEEE
InternationalConference on Services Computing (SCC 2005). The theme of
this jointIEEE conference on SERVICES is "Bridge the Gap between
Business Servicesand IT Services". It is to be held 12-15 July 2005 in
Orlando, Florida. Papers due 31 January 2005.
<http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005/>

Service-Oriented Computing : Semantics, Processes, Agents
book by Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns. Published 2005.
This comprehensive book explains the principles and practice
ofservice-oriented computing, with most of its concepts developed in
the context of Web services and agents. The book presents the
concepts,architectures, theories, techniques, standards, and
infrastructurenecessary for employing services. It includes a
comprehensive overviewof the state-of-the-art in Web services and
associated disciplines,relating concepts to practical examples and
emerging standards.Applications of technologies are explained within
the context ofplanning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy,
and networkpolicies.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470091487/multiagentcom>

Living Systems Technology Suite
In the context of the AgentLink "Agent Technology Conference" held
on 1 October 2004 in Zurich, Whitestein Technologies presented its new
"Living Systems(R) Technology Suite." As one of the most comprehensive
agent platforms currently available, the product offers a Java-based
Run-time Suite (for J2SE and J2EE environments), an Eclipse-based
Development Suite, and a Development Methodology based on the
RUP(Rational Unified Process) with an associated agent-oriented
modeling language based on UML 2.0.
<http://www.whitestein.com/pages/solutions/ls_ts.html>

New Tack Wins Prisoner's Dilemma
A group from Southampton University, headed by Nick Jennings, has
won the 20th-anniversary Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma competition,
toppling the long-term winner, tit-for-tat, from its throne. They did
so by submitting 60 programs which dynamically formed master and slave
relationships allowing the master to take advantage of the slave.
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65317,00.html>

AKIRA
The Artificial Knowledge Interface for Reasoning Applications is a
run-time C++ multithreading and clusterableenvironment able to execute
Software Agents and a web/systemdevelopment platform to model their
behaviour. The system core is madeup of a server daemon that answers
to network programming and AIcomputation requests and that executes
Agent's instances. A programminginterface based on a C++ MACRO
LANGUAGE and some automated scripts thatallows to create new Agents
complete the boundle. The whole system iswritten in C++ with an
exstensive use of templates and design patternsand integrates
different C++ open source software, implementing variousaspects of the
framework. Two soft computing technologies are provided,Fuzzy Logic
and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, together with an high levelpsychologically
valid Goal Oriented Programming Language: BDI (BeliefDesire Intention)
Model.
<http://www.akira-project.org>

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