Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Tue Mar 15 03:17:08 2005


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Agent-Based Computing
Agent-based computing has been hailed as the next significant
breakthrough in software development, and the new revolution in
software. Currently, software agents are the focus of intense
interest on the part of many sub-fields of computer science and
artificial intelligence. Software agents hold the potential to shape
the next generation of technologies and models for distributed
computation. ABC II will have sessions in Cancun, Mexico; Tetuan,
Morocco; and Melbourne, Australia. For Mexico papers due 31 March 2005
and is to be held 12-15 May 2005.
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~rahimi/abc05/>

UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card
The UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card [1] is a handy "cheatsheet"
for semantic web developers, programmers andstudents. It can be
printed double sided on one sheet ofpaper and tri-folded. The card
lists common RDF/RDFS/OWLclasses and properties, popular namespaces
and terms, XMLdatatypes, reserved terms, grammars and examples for
encodings, etc.
<http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/resource/html/id/94/>

Service-Oriented Computing : Semantics, Processes, Agents
by Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, 2005. This comprehensive
textbook explains the principles and practice ofservice-oriented
computing with an emphasis on Web services and theirconstruction,
deployment, and usage. The book presents the concepts,architectures,
theories, techniques, standards, and infrastructurenecessary for
employing services. It includes a solid overview of
thestate-of-the-art in Web services and associated disciplines,
relatingconcepts to practical examples and emerging standards.
Applicationsof services are explained within the context of planning,
negotiation,contracts, compliance, and policies. Covers the basic
standards and protocols (XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) and contains strong
sections on the Web ontology language (OWL) and business process
languages (BPEL4WS and ebXML)
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470091487/multiagentcom>

The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing
edited by Munindar Singh, 2004. This handbook collects definitive
knowledge about all major aspects ofInternet computing in one
place. The topics covered range fromimportant components of current
practice to key concepts to majortrends, making the handbook an ideal
comprehensive reference.The intended readers are people who need to
obtain in-depth,authoritative introductions to the major Internet
computing topics.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584883812/multiagentcom>

Trading Agent Competition
TAC 2005 is to be held 1-3 August 2005 along with AAMAS with
qualifying rounds on the 13 June 2005. There will be a TAC classic
where software agents represent travel coordinators whose goal is to
arrange travel packages for clients and TAC SCM which simulates a
dynamic supply chain environment where agentscompete to secure
customer orders and components required for production of these
orders.
<http://www.sics.se/tac/>

INGENIAS IDE
INGENIAS Development Kit (IDK) is an integrated set of tools for
the development of multi-agent systems, including a graphical editor,
code generation for multiple platforms (e.g., Jade, Robocode,
servlets), validation and verification of properties.
<http://ingenias.sourceforge.net/>

CLIMA VI
CLIMA-VI: Sixth International Workshop on Computational Logic in
Multi-Agent Systems is to be held 27-29 June 2005 in City University
of London, UK. Papers due 7 April 2005.
<http://clima.deis.unibo.it/>

Ubicomp
UbiComp 2005, the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous
Computing, will be held 11-14 September 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. The
annual conference provides the premier forum in which to present
research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation,
application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing
technologies. Papers due 7 March 2005.
<http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2005/>

P2P2005
The fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
is to be held 31 August - 2 Septmeber 2005 in Konstanz, Germany. Any
topic that relates to Peer-to-Peer, Grids, and Clusters is open for
consideration. We would like to give special encouragement to research
papers on security technology and policy issues for these overlay
networks. Papers due 22 April 2005.
<http://femto.org/p2p2005/>

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Edited by Jose M. Vidal.