Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Fri Apr 15 04:17:06 2005


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FIPA to become an IEEE standards committee
FIPA will close as a Swiss-based organization and become an IEEE
Computer Society standards committee. This committee will be a
self-organizing body with its own policies and procedures, dues
structures, and bank account within the IEEE. The IEEE Computer
Society will provide the qumbrella organization, website maintenance,
voting support, and all the other benefits that a large standards
organization provides.
<http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/blogger/index.php?p=216>

Multiagent and Grid Systems
"Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal"aims to
provide a timely andfocal research forum for academics and
practitioners in the thematicareas of Multiagent Systems, Grid
Computing, Autonomic Computing andtheir intersections. It publishes
peer-refereed research and applicationpapers of high technical quality
and scientific standard. The Journalfeatures original research papers,
comprehensive and sound survey papersabout the state-of-the-art,
technical papers about implementation issuesof general interest,
applications, and field reports. Moreover, fromtime to time it
presents special issues on contemporary problems ofprofound research
challenge in its thematic areas.
<http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702.php>

The Actor Architecture
The Actor Architecture (AA) is Java-based actor framework fully
implemented in Java language. AA consists of AA platforms, actor
execution environments within which actors across distributed systems
exist and operate with other actors, and an actor library to develop
actors which will be executed on AA. The main features of AA are actor
state management, actor communication, middle actor services, and
actor migration.
<http://yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu/aa/>

IADIS 05
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2005 conference aims to address the main
issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge
development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just
technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims
to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues
related to these developments. To be held 19-22 October 2005. Papers
due 8 April 2005.
<http://www.iadis.org/icwi2005/>

Workshop on Multiagent Learning
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration between ML experts
and agent system experts, and give a representative overview of
current research in the area of adaptive agents. The workshop will
serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed
work in both theoretical and practical issues. To be held 9-10 July
2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Papers due 20 April 2005.
<http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~eduardo/MAL-AAAI05.html>

ASAMAS 2005
The Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems is a yearly
event aimed at orienting new graduate students in the field of Agents
and Multiagent Systems. The events of previous years were well
attended and highly successful. They featured tutorials given by some
of the top agents researchers in the world, offering the students the
opportunity to interact with some of the best scientists in the field
today.The Fourth Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems will
build on the success of the previous years. As before, the School will
consist of four days of tutorials primarily intended for graduate
students from around the world (see the schedule for details), but
with a particular focus on students in North and South
America. (Undergraduate students may be allowed, provided they submit
a letter from an advisor recommending them as qualified for this
school, and non-student attendees are also welcome to apply). To be
held 7-10 July 2005 in Pittsburgh, PA.
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pmodi/ASAMAS/>

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