Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Thu Apr 15 03:17:07 2004


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Multi-agent or multiagent?
This link offers a discussion into the use of hyphens, with some
special notes on the multi- prefix. It seems that both usages are
accepted but contemporary usage favors dropping the hyphen, as in:
multinational, multiuser, and multimedia. But, remember that "If you
take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad" (Oxford University
Press style manual).
<http://www.jeanweber.com/howto/hyphens.htm>

ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
The selection committee for the SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Makoto Yokoo of the NTT
Communication Science Laboratories is the recipient of the 2004
award. Dr. Yokoo has made significant and sustained contributions to
the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In
particular, Dr. Yokoo made seminal contributions to the area of
distributed constraint satisfaction, which has become a flourishing
research area in multiagent systems.
<http://www.multiagent.com/news/award2004.txt>

DALT Workshop
The Second International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages
and Technologies aims at foster a discussion forum to further export
declarative paradigms and techniques into the broader community of
agent researchers and practitioners. Post-proceedings will be
published by Springer. Deadline has been extended. Papers due 6 April
2004. To be held 19-20 July 2004.
<http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/dalt04/index.htm>

Open Cougaar 2004
The first Open Cougaar Conference will bring together the open
source Cougaar community and the larger community of researchers and
application developers interested in creating practical, 24x7
large-scale multi-agent systems. It will provide a forum for this
expanded community to exchange ideas for building industrial-strength
MAS and to compare and contrast particular agent architectures
developed for this purpose. OpenCougaar'04 will be run coincident
with AAMAS 2004 in New York, NY, on 20 July 2004. The conference will
feature a mix of invited talks, selected presentations, and panel-led
open discussion forums.
<https://www.schafertmd.com/cougaar2004/index.html>

Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems
The Third Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems will
buildon the success of the first two schools. As before, the School
willconsist of four days of tutorials primarily intended for
graduatestudents from around the world, but with a particularfocus on
students in North and South America. (Undergraduate studentsmay be
allowed, provided they submit a letter from an advisorrecommending
them as qualified for this school, and non-studentattendees are also
welcome to apply). The deadline for applications is 16th April 2004.
<http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~parsons/events/asams/>

The Sixth European Agent Systems Summer School
EASSS 2004 will consist of a mixture of introductory and advanced
courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the agent
field, and will cover the full range of theoretical and practical
aspects of agent-basedcomputing. To be held 5 - 9 July 2004 in
Liverpool, UK.
<http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2004/index.html>

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Edited by Jose M. Vidal.