Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Thu Jul 15 03:17:54 2004


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EUMAS 2004
The Second European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems aims to
encourage and support activity in the research and development of
multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial European efforts. It
is to be held 16-17 December 2004 in Barcelona. Papers due 1 October
2004.
<http://www.eumas.org/2004/>

Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
book by Stefan Bussmann, Nicolas R. Jennings, Michael Wooldridge,
2004. This book presents a novel approach to the design of manufacturing
control systems, based around the idea of agents, semi-autonomous
decision makers that cooperate to process goods and meet orders. This
new methodology is DACS-- Designing Agent-based Control
Systems. Developed at DaimlerChrysler's research labs in Berlin, DACS
is the first methodology specifically produced for the design of
agent-based control systems. See also the publisher's page.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540209247/multiagentcom>

International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
The aim of this workshop is to encourage existing activity in this
field, and to bring together computer science, information science,
and social science participants concerned with massively multiagent
systems and applications. The workshop will consist of invited talks,
oral and poster presentations, and panels. Participation in the
workshop is by invitation only, and is limited to around 40
people. Abstracts due 15 August 2004, papers due 1 September 2004. To
be held 10-11 December 2004 in Kyoto.
<http://www.digitalcity.jst.go.jp/conferences/2004/workshop/>

Next FIPA Meeting
The 32nd meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held 14-16
July 2004 in Washington, DC and will be hosted by Intelligent
Automation, Inc (IAI). Registration for the meeting is still open.
<http://www.fipa.org/activities/nextmeeting.html>

CybelePro
Intelligent Automation announces the release of CybelePro - a
robust and efficient infrastructure for the rapid development and
deployment of Java-based large-scale agent applications. Features
include event-driven agents, publish-subscribe based communications,
discrete and continuous clock support, browser-based agent management,
directory service, performance driven event sorting and ordering
capabilities, PDA support and compliance with FIPA standards.
<http://www.cybelepro.com/>

Open Cougaar 2004
The first OpenCougaar Conference will bring together the open
sourceCougaar community and the larger community ofresearchers and
application developers interested in creating practical,24x7
large-scale multi-agent systems. It is to be held 20 July 2004,
colocated with AAMAS 2004.
<https://www.schafertmd.com/cougaar2004/>

Agent-Oriented Information Systems
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of
the5th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented
InformationSystems, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 at AAMAS
2003 andin Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003 at ER 2003.
<http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/
0,0,4-0-22-31054239-0,0.html?referer=www.springeronline.com/3-540-22127-1>

SYNASC 2004
Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems is to be held 26-30
September 2004 in Timisoara, Romania. Papers due 15 July 2004.
<http://synasc04.info.uvt.ro/index.php?peer=acs>

AAMAS 2005
The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems is to be held 25-29 July 2005 in Utrecht University,
The Netherlands. Papers due 6 December 2004.
<http://www.aamas2005.nl/>

TRSoccerbots
This is a free educational program that uses teleo-reactive
programming to expose the fundamental ideas involved in the creation
of autonomous agents to high school and college students. This
software package consists of two modules: a code generating graphical
user interface that guides the user through the creation of behaviors
and a robot soccer simulation environment where these programs are
executed and tested.
<http://www.trsoccerbots.org/>

Hyderabad Multi-agent Systems School
In this Agent School, top researchers in multi-agent systems and
applications will give tutorials on their areas of expertise starting
from basic concepts to open research problems. The tutorials are
structured such that each researcher can give tutorials on two days
with ample time left for discussions and participant/researcher
interaction. Projects/Assignments and exercises are scheduled in the
evenings for the participants to further grasp the material. To be
held 4-12 August 2004 in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India.
<http://www.iiit.net/research/cde/agents/index.php>

Ant Colony Optimization
book by Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stutzle, 2004. MIT Press. The book
first describes the translation of observed ant behavior into working
optimization algorithms. The ant colony metaheuristic is then
introduced and viewed in the general context of combinatorial
optimization. This is followed by a detailed description and guide to
all major ACO algorithms and a report on current theoretical
findings. The book surveys ACO applications now in use, including
routing, assignment, scheduling, subset, machine learning, and
bioinformatics problems.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262042193/multiagentcom>

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