Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Fri Sep 16 03:17:06 2005


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ICIW
THe International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and
Services is to be held 23-25 February 2006 in Guadeloupe, French
Caribbean. Papers due 30 September 2005.
<http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html>

Ant logic makes sense in space
The team at CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, is
working with NASA on the project and has so far created a model skin
made up of 192 separate cells. Behind each cell is an impact sensor
and a processor equipped with algorithms that allow it to communicate
only with its immediate neighbours. Just as ants secrete pheromones to
help guide other ants to food, the CSIRO algorithms leave digital
messages in cells around the system, indicating for instance the
position of the boundary around a damaged region. The cell's processor
can use this information to route data around the affected area.
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725165.200&feedId=online-news_rss\
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PRIMA
PRIMA'05 the first of its kind to be held in Malaysia, follows a
strong tradition that began in 1998 as a platform to enable researches
from the Pacific-Rim countries to share and collaborate their research
findings in the ares of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. It
is to be held 26-28 September 2005. Papers due 30 June 2005.
<http://www.prima2005.org/home.htm>

Long Live AI
The killer app of strong AI, combined with nanotechnology, will be
blood-cell-size robots called nanobots. We'll have billions of them
traveling in our bloodstream, communicating with one another on a
wireless local area network and transmitting information and software
to and from the Internet. They'll keep us healthy by destroying
pathogens and cancer cells, removing debris, correcting DNA errors and
otherwise reversing disease and aging processes.
<http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2005/0815/030.html>

Management Simulation Inc.
Provider of business simulations aimed towards professors,
academic users and corporate users.
<http://www.capsim.com/>

Google tool watches as you work
The revamped software will suggest web links, personal documents
and images that might be relevant to whatever someone is doing with
their computer.The tool also automatically subscribes to feeds from
weblogs and news sites that a user visits.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4172654.stm>

NetLogo Workshop
NetLogo is a powerful cross-platform, multi-agent, programmable
modeling environment that follows the longstanding Logo tradition of
"low threshold and high ceiling," making it possible to create complex
models with a minimum of code or experience. The hands-on workshop,
which will be led by members of the NetLogo development team, will
begin with an introduction to NetLogo, quickly moving toward helping
participants to write their own models. No previous experience with
NetLogo or programming is expected. It is to be held 10-12 October
2005 jointly with Agent 2005 conference in Chicago.
<http://ccl.northwestern.edu/workshop/>

PROMAS
After two successful editions of the Programming Multiagent Systems
Group, this edition aims to continue the discussion about hot topics
in MAS developmentby providing an accurate insight of the concerns
involved in the implementation of multi-agent systems. In contrast to
the previous editions, we aim to narrow the focus of this edition to
specific technological topics (debugging, programming principles,
communications, ...), and what has all that to do with existing agent
development solutions (tools, programming languages, frameworks,
libraries) and available results (prototypes, experiments, case
studies,...). The topics cover academy interests and are directly
related with key questions that industry is interested into. To be
held 15-17 September 2005.
<http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi/tfg/budapest.html>

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Edited by Jose M. Vidal.