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About-Introduction Books ALIAS Topics ALIAS Other Websites similar to this one. Ask Google Ask google.com to find websites similar to this one. Agents Portal "Agents Protal is a meeting point for people interested in Agents and Multiagent systems. We collect resources about this research and technolgy field for people looking for up-to-date information."It looks very nice! BotSpot The spot for bots! Expert Decision This website has some introductory and overview articles on topics such as XML, Petri nets, mobile agents, multiagent systems, and electronic commerce. Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Pointers to sites related to applications of agent technology to collaborative design and manufacturing. Intelligent Software Agents by Sverker Janson. Contains a lot of links to information about agents. UMBC Agent Web *cool*Lots of information on agents, plus an excellent introduction (agents 101) for those new to the field. the Agentry This website has software and information related to animated user interface agents, for microsoft windows. A lot of UI agents are available for download. eBiquity Blog A blog on the semantic web, multiagent systems, AI, mobile systems, and pervasive computing from the eBiquity group at UMBC. DAI List A local HTML archive of messsages sent to the DAI List which is edited by Mike Huhns. A gentle intoduction to agents Tutorial on agents with particular emphasis on applications in the telecommunications industry. Its very short and basic. Agent Technology Roadmap A document prepared by AgentLink II which describes the current state of agent technologies (as of Nov 2002) and possible future directions. AgentLink's Roadmap AgentLink's "Roadmap for Agent-Based Computing" has been updated. It provides an assessment of the current situation with respect to the status of agent technologies, and indicates key directions for future development of the field. Agents 101 A set of pointers to papers useful for those new (and not so new) to agents research. Mainted as part of the UMBC Agent Web. Agent-Based Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Survey The extended version of a journal paper. Published in 1999. Agent or Program Is it an Agent, or just a Program? A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents. By Franklin and Graesser. 1996. Communications of the ACM: March 1999 This issue of the CACM deals with multiagent systems on the Net and agents for e-commerce. Internet Computing: July/August 1997 An excellent issue of Internet Computing about "Internet-based Agents". All articles available online IF you are a member. Intelligent Agents Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence. Describes agents in the web, written by Petrie. 12/96. Intelligent Agents FAQ *cool*An FAQ about agents from the British Telecom Labs. Contains definitions of the various agent types and associated technologies. circa 1998. Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice A good survey paper by Wooldridge and Jennings. 1995. Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective A good introduction for machine learning buffs. 1998. Pitfalls of Agent-Oriented Development Before you start building your multiagent system, perhaps you might want to read over this paper. 1998. Virtual Roundtable: Future of Agents An interesting interview/discussion with some of the most famous names in Agents. (not strictly MASs, but interesting nonetheless). 1997. A CEO's Guide to eCommerce Using Intergalactic Object-Oriented Intelligent Agents It is as wacky as it sounds. But, if you have absolutely no technical knowledge this might be the paper for you. 1998. About AI An excellent general introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), brought to you by the AAAI. Wikipedia:Multi-Agent System Wikipedia's entry for multiagent systems is kinda neat. It explains how the wikipedia itself is a multiagent agent systems by breaking it down to its particular tasks, agents, control flow, etc.

Companies Dead AgentSoft AgentSoft develops and markets automation software for the Internet and the enterprise intranet. Its flagship product, LiveAgent Pro, makes it easy to record powerful Internet and intranet macros. Autonomy Agentware Autonomy has the only technology capable of providing you with a complete infrastructure for the automated handling of large volumes of information for Knowledge Managment and New Media market. BizBots Bizbots creates advanced electronic commerce services and applications for systems involving multiple, interacting software agents. They were recently awarded $5M to design and deploy an object-oriented electronic commerce infrastructure "Component Commerce". Bios Home Develops flexible software solutions and decision support tools that combine many powerful complexity science-based techniques including agent-based modeling, learning heuristics, multi-objective optimization, data mining, and genetic algorithms. @ctive on-line Specializes in the application of software agents and AI to information and knowledge management. Website is still mostly empty. NetSage They create "intelligent social interfaces". They are the ones to blame for that animated paper clip in MS Office. Acklin Acklin is a young company that delivers products, services and support in the area of intelligent software agents. Artificial Life, Inc. Their tagline is we create smart bots for e-business. Their bots seem to be user interface guides (like that annoying paper clip in MS office). Some of them have a natural language interface used to query a database of FAQs. Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd. A commercial enterprise with head office in Melbourne, Australia, delivering advanced software solutions -- products and services -- world-wide. Agent Business Force Agent Business Force is a new company focusing on supplying professionaltools to create industrial size multi-agent systems. RIDL 2004 is its first product: a true multi-agent language that allows one to define agents with the same ease as objects. It can execute over 10000 agents on one computer. AgentBuilder An integrated software toolkit that allows software developers to quickly develop intelligent software agents and agent-based applications. Agentis Software A commercial enterprise with head office in California, and engineering department in Melbourne, delivering advanced software solutions, products, services. Creators of AdaptivEnterprise. Amblit Technologies Amblit Technologies is the creator of Amblit Navigator, anext generation information and internet browser that uses anintegrated, intelligent semantic agent, content manager and acollection of information gathering agents that roam the Internet. BBN Technologies BBN Technologies is a research company with a heavy investment in Agent technologies, including the Cougaar open-source agent architecture, CoABS, OmarJ, and other technologies. Blackboard Technology They develop blackboard-based systems. Specifically, agent-based collaborative-integration solutions in the areas of concurrent engineering; integrated manufacturing; business-process integration; sensing, monitoring, and control; and dynamic scheduling. BotTechnology.com A global development organization that consults, designs, creates and implements bots and intelligent agents that search, monitor, update, maintain and perform e-commerce on the Internet. Cougaar Software Inc. Cougaar Software, Inc. provides intelligent technology solutions, software and related services to commercial and military sectors. We were formed in 2001 to commercialize the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar). We have spent the last two years refining our solutions as a major platform, called ActiveEdge, for quickly building and deploying intelligent agent applications. Dejima "Powerful java-based, agent-oriented software engineering platform with visual SDK that handles complex software engineering problems including natural language interface design."They claim to have build a platform where intelligent independed agents coordinate to solve problems. Its called the Adaptive Agent Software Architecture Platform (AASAP). Extempo Develops animated interactive characters. Evans & Peck Evans&Peck are a consultancy operating in the Asia Pacific region and offer consulting services in agent based simulation modelling. Evans&Peck are the local distributors for AnyLogic in Australia and New Zealand. Frictionless Commerce Provide software to enable e-commerce. Their main product is a commercial version of Tete-a-Tete (T@T). Groove Networks "Groove is a combination of software and services that transform the Internet into a personal medium for direct communication and interaction."It is a peer-to-peer system for information sharing. Some versions of the software are free. IKV++ GmbH The company that developes Grasshopper---the first mobile agent environment which is compliant to the OMG MASIF standard. Intelligent Automation, Inc. IAI has been working on agent technology for several years. We have developed Cybele, an agent infrastructure that provides network communication, event handling, concurrency management, as well as agent migration and load-balancing services. We have also developed DIVA, a case tool for designing agent behavior following our agent design methodology. Intelligent Reasoning Systems We specialize in the research, design, development, and application of leading-edge research and technologies, primarily in the fields of Intelligent Software Agents (ISAs) and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). You can download UMPRS and JAM from this page. iSOCO iSOCO is a young Spanish company that specializes in theapplication of artificial intelligence techniques and the deployment ofintelligent agents to produce innovative e-commerce solutions. Living Agents A global provider of collaborative commerce and logistic solutions based on agent technologywith 4 years and over 30 projects of experience in developing business solutions based on the LARS living agents runtime system. Magenta Technology Magenta Technology is the leading enterprise software developer ofmulti-agent and semantic web software to enable the adaptive enterprise. TheUK-based company helps companies make better decisions faster through acomprehensive range of enterprise-ready products that release significantvalue trapped within companies. Magenta's breakthrough solutions forcontinuous planning, simulation and network design add value to logisticsand fleet operations, supply chain execution, demand-driven networks,resource allocation, distribution operations, project management, fieldservices and collaborative manufacturing. Management Simulation Inc. Provider of business simulations aimed towards professors, academic users and corporate users. Mojonation They are a "revolutionary new publishing and content-sharing network. It combines the flexibility of the marketplace and the distributed computing power of the Internet to go far beyond current filesharing systems. We're not just trading MP3s here. Mojo Nation is building an efficient, massively scalable and secure marketplace for distributors and consumers of digital content. ". Net Perceptions The Net Perceptions Realtime Recommendation Platform eliminates compromises in performance, lexibility and scalability by seamlessly integrating and automatically applying the optimum technologies for every realtime recommendation task. NuTech Solutions Develops flexible software solutions and decision support tools that combine many powerful complexity science-based techniques including agent-based modeling, learning heuristics, multi-objective optimization, data mining, and genetic algorithms. Open Ratings Offers a rating service for rating various ecommerce websites. Buyers will fill out surveys after their purchases and these surveys are somehow added together to give the website its rating. I assume that the company will serve as an impartial third party to guarntee that the surveys were filled out by actual customers (they do not specify how this will be done). REBOL Technologies Makers of the REBOL Messaging language. A language that provides easy access to most Internet protocols. It is also context sensitive. Free to download. This might help for writing agents quickly. Simweb SimWeb will provide European businesses in the digital contents sector withinsights and tools which will enable them to take informed business strategydecisions and become more competitive by adapting their traditional B2Cbusiness models to the new, demanding reality. To achieve this objective,SimWeb will design and implement sector models based on innovative,reusable, and highly scalable multi-agent simulation technology. The insights gained during these simulation runs will permit them to adjusttheir own business models to the new competitive demands. Soar Technology Specializes in creating intelligent autonomous entities that generate human-like behavior for simulation environments. Taalee "Taalee is a Semantic Web company that provides a variety of semantic services for for audio/video on the Web and wireless infrastructures. Services include categorization, cataloging, search, personalization, directory and targeting. Its currently has a multi-agent infrastructure with hundreds of automatically generated agents that continuously aggregate and semantically catalog/index audio and video on the Web". Time-Rover A company that does simulation, run-time monitoring and verification of multi-agent systems using formal specifications written in knowledge temporal logic, which is linear time temporal logic (LT) combined with knowledge operators, real-time-constraints and time-series constraints. TradingDynamics Innovative Solutions for Business to Business Dynamic TradeSeems like they will be selling biz-to-biz auction software. You can give them your email and they will notify you when they have something to sell. Tryllian Makers of Gossip, a Java application for agent-based query resolution. You give one of your agents a question, along with some related URLS, and it goes to their server to talk to other agents and find out an answer to your question (its a recommender system). Very cute interface. Whitestein Whitestein Technologies was founded in 1999with the mission to be a leading provider of advanced software agenttechnologies, products, solutions, and services for selectedapplication domains and industries. Whitestein strongly believes thatagent-based technologies and agent-oriented software engineeringmethodologies enable novel, attractive market opportunities for thedesign and the implementation of a next generation of distributedinformation systems and network infrastructures, in particular incombination with other leading edge technologies, like web services,mobile computing, grid computing, and pervasive technologies such asRFID smart tags.

Conferences RoboCup Official Site An ongoing competition. Robots and software agents playing soccer against each other---making MASs fun. Game Mining Events A page that lists upcoming conferences on data mining, AI, machine learning and computer games . Related Conferences Sixth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS'2001. To be held in cooperation with VLDB 2001 in Trento, Italy on September 5-7, 2001. Papers due 7 March 2001. IC-AI'2001 The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence to be held 25-28 June 2001 in Las Vegas. Papers due 1 March 2001. IJCAI-01 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. To be held August 4th - 10th, 2001 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Papers due 8 January 2001. ICCS&SS II International Conference on Computer Simulations and the Social Sciences. Monday September 18 - Wednesday September 20, 2000 Paris France. Papers due 1 February 2000. ISADS Symposium International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems. The Fifth ISADS 2001 will be held 26-28 March 2001 in Dallas, Texas. This symposium provides a forum for the discussion of next-generation systems, which are based on emerging technologies and applications. To ensure their reliability and efficiency, these systems are expected to have the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and decentralized components. We refer to these systems as Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS). Semantic Web Conference The first International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)is to be held 10-12 June 2002 in Sardinia, Italy.It invites submissions related to all aspects of the Semantic Web. Both technical and survey/overviewpapers are solicited, as well as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements and reports onwork in progress. Papers due 15 February 2002. IADIS International Conference International Association for the Development of Information Society. Papers due 14 April 2003. To be held 5-8 November 2003 in Algarve, Portugal. AMT2005 The Third International Conference on Active Media Technology covers topics such as active computer systems and interfaces, dynamic web technologies, (multi) agent aystems, interactive systems, pervasive/ubiquitous systems, human-centered robotics, digital cities, their applications and evaluation, etc. It is to be held 19-21 May 2005 in Kagawa, Japan. Papers due 12 November 2004. Semantic Web Challenge The overall objective of the challenge is to apply "Semantic Web Techniques" in order to build an online application that integrates, combines, and deduces information needed to assist users in performing tasks. The challenge will continue for at least five years and will be updated annually, according to the development of the Semantic Web. First price is E$1000. Papers due 31 August 2004. FLAIRS 2005 - Intelligent Agent Systems Track The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to intelligent agent theory, design and implementation. To be held 16-18 May 2005 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Papers due 22 October 2004. ISMIS 2005 The International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. It is to be held 25-28 May 2005 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Papers due 15 October 2004. IADIS e-Commerce 2004 The IADIS e-Commerce 2004 conference is a major international event for researchers,academics, industry specialists, practitioners & students interested in the advances in,and applications of, e-Commerce. The participants will have an opportunity to presentand observe the latest research results, and ideas in these areas. This conference aimsto cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to this new business paradigm. To be held 14-16 December 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal. Papers due 17 September 2004. ICWS 2005 The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) isthe THIRD year of ICWS focusing on Web Services. The long-term goal ofICWS is to build up a reputable and respectable conference for theinternational community. ICWS is a forum for researchers and industrypractitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in thestate of the art and practice of Web Services, as well as to identifythe emerging research topics and define the future of Web Servicescomputing. ICWS 2005 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TechnicalSteering Committee (a.k.a. Technical Community) for Services Computing(TSC-SC) and will be co-located with the 2005 IEEE InternationalConference on Services Computing (SCC 2005). The theme of this jointIEEE conference on SERVICES is "Bridge the Gap between Business Servicesand IT Services". It is to be held 12-15 July 2005 in Orlando, Florida. Papers due 31 January 2005. CCGrid 2005 CCGrid2005, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval pending), is designed to bring together international leaders who are pioneering researchers, developers, and users of clusters, networks, and Grid architectures and applications. The symposium will also serve as a forum to present the latest work, and highlight related activities from around the world. Papers due 1 December 2004. To be held 9-12 May 2005 in Cardiff, UK. Mobiquitous MobiQuitous 2005, the 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, is to be held 17-21 July 2005 in San Diego CA. Submitted papers due 2 February 2005. 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. 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. 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. IAWTIC The International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce is to be held 28-30 November 2005 in Vienna, Austria. Papers due 31 August 2005. 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. ISWC The fifth International Semantic Web Conference is to be held 5-9 November 2006 in Athens, Georgia. ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. Papers due 15 May 2006. Complexity Conferences Computational Economic Modeling Workshop The Sixth Annual Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Economics: Computational Modeling and Complexity. To be held 18 June-1 July, 2000 in Santa Fe, NM. Application deadline is 7 April 2000. MASHO workshop Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations, 22 August 2000, held jointly with ECAI-2000. DCDNS2 Discrete Chaotic Dynamics in Nature and Society (DCDNS2) 9-13 May 2000 Journal CFP ALIAS Major Conferences AAAI AAAI 06 is to be held 16-20 July 2006 in Boston, MA. Papers due 21 February 2006. AAAI has a senior member papers track, a nectar papers track (for papers already published at other major conferences), and abstracts and posters submissions. IJCAI The twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence is to be held 6-14 January 2007 in Hyderabad, India. Abstracts due 23 June 2006. Papers due 30 June 2006. AAMAS The autonomous agents and multiagent systems conference is to be held 8-12 May 2006 in Future University-Hakodate Japan. Abstracts due 15 October 2005. Papers due 18 October 2005. IJCAI-05 The Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence is to be held 30 July - 5 August 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Papers due 1 February 2005. 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. Abstracts due 6 December 2004. Papers due 10 December 2004. 2005 IEEE KIMAS Conference The Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems conference deals with systems where intelligent decision support, sensor operation, signal processing, and knowledge utilization requires knowing how this knowledge is produced, measured, communicated, and interpreted. Application domains include intelligent communication systems in the network-centric environment, sensors and sensor networks design and operation, analysis of situations in business and industry, battlefield awareness, automatic target recognition, signal processing, bioinformatics, gene profiling, drug discovery, and many others. New deadline:Abstracts due 1 August 2004. Papers due 1 December 2004. To be held 18-21 April 2005 in Waltham, Massachusetts. WI -IAT 2005 The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'05) is to be held 19-22 September 2005 in Compiegne University of Technology, France.Papers due 3 April 2005. AAAI 2005 The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence is to be held 9-13 July 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abstracts due 18 March 2005. Papers due 22 March 2005. SOAS The 2005 International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptationof Multi-agent and Grid Systems (SOAS'2005) is to be held 11-13 December 2005 in Glasgow, Scotland, UnitedKingdom. Papers due 15 August 2005. Old IAT - 2001 The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001). To be held 23-26 October 2001 in Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan. Papers due 20 March 2001. MA 2001 The 5th International Conference on Mobile Agents to be held 2-4 December 2001 in Atlanta, GA. Papers due 14 May 2001. Agents 2001 Software Track To be held 29 May - 1 June 2001 in Montreal Canada. Title pages due 9 October 2000. Papers due 16 October 2000. SAB 2000 From animals to animats: the sixth international conference on the simulation of adaptive behavior. Papers due 19 February 2000, Paris, France. WARS 2000 Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Papers due 6 December 1999. Conference 3-7 June 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Call for Tutorials at ICMAS 2000 International Conference on MultiAgent Systems. Papers due Nov 15, 1999. Conference July 10-12, 2000. Boston, MA. Coordination 2000 Papers due 14 April 2000. 11-13 September 2000 in Limassol, Cyprus. PA EXPO99 Including Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Technology. Papers due 6 December 1999. Conference 10-14 April 2000, Manchester, England. Maamaw'99 in Valencia Modelling autonomous agents in a multiagent world. Autonomous Agents '99 Third International Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents '99) Coordination 99 Presents research on languages variously termed "coordination languages", configuration languages", "architectural description languages", and "agent-oriented programming languages" PAAM99 The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents. Agents '98 ICMAS'98 Home Page MAAMAW97 Agents '97 AAMAS 2002 The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, which resulted from the merger of the previous Autnomous Agents and ICMAS conferences, will be held 15-19 July 2002 in Bologna, Italy. Papers due 6 November 2001, with abstracts due 30 October 2001. 2004 International Conference on WI and IAT The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04). To be held 20-24 September 2004, in Beijing, China. Papers due 4 April 2004. AAMAS 2004 AAMAS04 welcomes the submission of original research papers centered around the themes ofautonomous agents and multiagent systems, particularly those relating to the topic areasmentioned below. To be held 19-23 July 2004 in New York City, NY. Papers due 16 January 2004. AAMAS 2003 The second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems is to be held 14-18 July 2003 in Melbourne, Australia. Papers due 4 November 2002. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence To be held 13-17 October 2003 in Beijing, China. Papers due 20 March 2003. Agentcities-AgentLink Agent Technology Conference Agentcities and Agentlink will be hosting the 2nd International Conference on Agents for Industrial Applications in Barcelona, Spain on the 5th February, 2003. The event is aimed at commercial organisations interested in exploiting agent technologies to benefit their businesses.The programme will include presentations by world-leading Agent technology experts including presentations from BTExact,Forrester Research, Fujitsu, IBM, iSOCO, Siemens and manyothers. Attendance is free but participants must register on-line at the event web site. HoloMAS 2003 The first International Conference on Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems is to be held 1-3 September 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. Papers due 10 March 2003. KIMAS 2003 The Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems Conference will be held 1-3 October 2003 in Cambridge MA. Abstracts are due 1 February 2003. Update: The deadline for abstracts has been moved back to 1 March 2003. Agent Technology Conference The third International Agent Technology Conference is to be held 1 October 2004 in Zurich. ATC is organized by the Agentlink consortium and aims to bring together commercial organizations interested in exploiting agenttechnologies to benefit their businesses. The program includes presentations by world-leading agent technology experts from some of the most innovative companies in the field, as well as representatives from traditionalindustries reporting on their agent based solutions. Participation to this event is free but requires registration. Workshops Reputation and Trust Competition In the ART Testbed Competition, appraiser agents deliver appraisals for paintings from different eras; if an appraiser agent does not have the expertise to complete the appraisal, it can purchase opinions from other appraiser agents. Appraiser agents may also purchase from each other reputation information about other appraisers. Appraiser agents must decide when, and from whom, to request opinions and reputation information to generate accurate appraisals for clients. Appraisers receive more future business, and thus more profit, for producing more accurate appraisals. The winning appraiser agent is selected as the appraiser with the highest bank account balance. To be held 10-12 May 2006 with AAMAS. ESOSAPH The Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware Session at KES deals with biologically-inspired approaches to self-organization. To be held 9-11 October 2006 in Bournemouth, UK. Papers due 4 March 2006. AMTA The aim of the International Workshop on Agents and Multiagent Systems, from Theory to Application is thus to bring together theoreticians andpractitioners from the academia, industry and government to address problemsrelated to environments for agents and MAS. In this first edition we givepriority to contributions which deal with spatially constrained environments. To be held 5-6 June 2006 in Quebec City, Canada. Papers due 1 March 2006. IADIS The IADIS Intelligent Systems and Agents 2006 conference addresses in detail two main aspects: intelligent systems and agents. This conference has a unique concept: it is a scientific conference hosted virtually. This means that the quality of a scientific conference (with the peer reviewed submissions, the publication in a book and CD with ISBN, the possibility of best papers being considered for publication as extended versions in journals) comes together with the benefit of being at your office or at home and taking part in it at any time during its 5 days duration. You choose which sessions to attend from the conference themes offered and you can tailor your best schedule. To be held 15-19 May 2006. Papers due 8 February 2006. 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. Socially Inspired Computing Workshop Ideas from biology have been successfully applied tothe design, construction and adjustment of computersystems. This workshop aims to focus on work whichcontributes to doing the same with ideas andmetaphors originating in social phenomena. To be held 12-15 April 2005, at University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, England. Papers due 15 November 2004. MADWH The 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on MultiAgent Data Warehousing and MultiAgent Data Mining (MADW-MADM2005) in conjunction with the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining is to be held 27 November 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Papers due 1 September 2005. MAS4DMR Multiagent Systems for Disaster Management and Response special session will focus on the potential of agent technologyfor disaster management and response. To be held 15-17 May 2006 in Newark, NJ. Papers due 12 January 2006. DALT The workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT),in its fourth edition this year, is a well-established forum forresearchers interested in sharing their experiences in combiningdeclarative and formal approaches with engineering and technologyaspects of agents and multiagent systems. It is do be held 8 May 2006. Papers due 15 January 2006. PM4W Policy Management for the Web (PM4W) is a one dayworkshop at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005). To be held 10 May 2005 in Chiba, Japan. Papers due 1 February 2005. ELMAS The International Workshop on Emergent Languages for Multi-Agent Systems (ELMAS-2006) is to be held 8 May 2006 in Future University-Hakodate, Japan along with AAMAS. Papers due 15 January 2006. in conjunction with AAMAS-2006. 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. 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. MAS&S 2005 Building on the success of the first symposium in 2004, the SecondIEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MAS&S) isscheduled again for Philadelphia to be held 30-31 August 2005. Papers due 1 March 2005. 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. AAAI Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is based on the idea of dynamic, heterogeneous, shared knowledge sources providing machine-readable content in a similar way to that in which information is shared on the World Wide Web. Integral to this vision was a synergy with Multi-Agent Systems technology; agents could utilize this knowledge to achieve their own goals, producing new knowledge that could be disseminated or published within a common framework. Conversely, the Semantic Web would benefit from autonomous, distributed agents responsible for gathering/aggregating knowledge, reasoning and inferring new facts, identifying and managing inconsistencies, and providing trust and security mechanisms. This symposium aims to promote and foster a greater understanding of the synergy between Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web. To be held 3-6 November 2005 in Arlington, Virginia. Papers due 25 April 2005. ACECW The Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration Workshop will be colocated with ETICE 2005 and is to be held 13-15 June 2005 in LInkoping Univ. Sweden. Papers due 11 February 2005. AOSE Agent Oriented Software Engineering workshop is to be held 8 May 2006 along with AAMAS. Papers due 15 January 2006. CoOrg05 The 1st International Workshop on Coordination and Organisation aims to provide an excellent opportunity to meet researchers studying coordination and organisations in cognitive science, social sciences, agent theory, computer science, philosophy, etc., to discuss the current state of the art and identify potential future directions and research issues. To be held 20-23 April 2005 in Namur, Belgium. Papers due 1 March 2005. Workshop on Agent Communication During the last 7 years some standard agent communicationlanguages have been proposed. In practice most applications adhere tothe FIPA ACL standard. However, the discussion about theinterpretation and semantics of the standard messages has not yetabated. The use of mental attitudes as pre- and postconditions of thecommunicative acts makes it hard to verify them. On the other hand apure syntactic approach would not do justice to the intentional nature of agent communication. To be held 25-26 July 2005 with AAMAS. Papers due 14 March 2005. Adaptive Agents and MAS Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) is an emergingmulti-disciplinary area encompassing Computer Science, SoftwareEngineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences. The Fifth European Workshop on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is to be held 21-22 March 2005 in Paris. Papers due 5 January 2005. 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. AAMAS 05 Workshops The list of AAMAS 05 workshops has been posted. There are 29 workshops in various exciting topics. They all have the same due date. Papers due 14 March 2005. 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. NorMAS 2005 The First International Symposium on Normative Agent Systems (NormAS2005) is a one day symposium that is part of the 2005 AISB convention with the general theme "Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents". It is to be held 12-15 April 2005 in the University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, England. Papers due 31 October 2004. 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. MAS4SCM The goal of this session is to increase awareness and interest in agent-based Supply Chain Management research, encourage collaboration between multi-agent systems experts and Supply Chain Management experts, and give a representative overview of current research in the area of application of Multi-Agent Systems for Supply Chain Management. To be held 25-27 October 2006 in Troyes, France. Papers due 15 March 2006. LCMAS 2005 The 3rd International Workshop on Logic and Communication in MultiAgent Systems, satellite workshop of IJCAI 2005, aims at bringingtogether researchers interested in topics related to the use of formaltools when applied to modelling, specifying, verifying, and reasoningabout multi-agent systems in which communication and updating play acrucial role. It is to be held 31 July - 1 August 2005 in Edinburgh. Papers due 30 March 2005. 2004 UML and Agents 2004 In this workshop we will seek to examine the credentials of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm, and to gain an insight into how agent-oriented software engineering can benefit from UML. To be held 27 March - 4 April 2004 in Barcelona, Spain. Papers due 12 December 2003. Workshop on Open Computational Systems The second International Workshop on the theory and practice of open computational systems (TAPOCS) is to be held 14 June 2004 in Modena Italy. Papers due 1 March 2004. Wetice 2004 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises. WETICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration. To be held 14-16 June 2004 in Modena, Italy. Papers due 1 March 2004. 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. 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. Engineering Societies in the Agents World ESAW 2004 remains committed tothe use of the notion of multi-agent systems as seed for animated,constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions abouttechnologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complexdistributed applications. To be held 20-22 October 2004 in Toulouse, France. Papers due 20 June 2004. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-agent Systems The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. To be held 29-30 September 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal. Papers due 25 June 2004. SYNASC 2004 Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems is to be held 26-30 September 2004 in Timisoara, Romania. Papers due 15 July 2004. 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. 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. 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. 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. IEEE MAS and Security This is the first symposium to focus solely on the techniques required to support both security and survivability of multi-agent systems, as well as the use of multi-agent systems to support security and survivability of other systems. To be held 30-31 August 2004 at Drexel University in Philadelphia. CLIMA V The fifth workshop on computational logic in multi-agent systems is to be held 29-30 September 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal. 2003 AgentGrid 2003 The Third International Workshop on Agent Based Cluster and Grid Computing is to be held May 2003 in Tokyo, Japan. Papers due 1 December 2002. The aim of this workshop is to bring together both infrastructure developers, and applications developers, who are working towards the vision of an Information Grid using agent technologies. The workshop will also aim to inspire and encourage collaboration between these two communities. Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems Conference Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering. Abstracts due 1 February 2003. To be held 1-3 October 2003 in Cambridge, MA. First Robocup Australian Open The First RoboCup Australian Open 2003 tournament and workshop (Simulation League) will take place in Sydney, during the last week of January, 2003 at the University of New South Wales. Participation intent and/or papers due 1 November 2002. To be held 28-31 January 2003. CIA-2003 Workshop The Cooperative Information Agents: Intelligent Agents for the Internet and Web, Workshop is to be held 27-29 August 2003 in Helsinki, Finland. Papers due 7 April 2003. Agentcities iD3 Agentcities iD3 is the third Information Day organised by the EU IST funded Agentcities.NET project. The event will include:An Agent technology exhibition,The finals of the Agent Technology Competition.A three day program of workshop/presentation sessions,A research/industry funding track for upcoming projectsOpen meeting facilities for ad-hoc meetings allocated on a per-need basis. The event web site includes on-line registration and a call for presentations. Challenges in Open Agent Systems Web The second international workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Environments will take place in Melbourne, Australia on the 14th or 15th of July as part of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems conference. Agents for Business Automation, Research and Development The goal of this event is to gather academic and industrial researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to initialize new contacts toward future cooperation or to strengthen existing collaborations. Papers due 17 February 2003. To be held 23-26 June 2003 in Las Vegas. Computational Autonomy - Potential, Risks, Solutions The purpose of this workshop is to provide a unique forum for discussing the potential and the risks of computational autonomy, and for presenting solutions to the various issues raised by computational autonomy. To be held 14-15 July 2003 in Melbourne, Australia. Papers due 22 April 2003. Agent-based computing for enterprise collaboration This workshop will be held along with WETICE03. To be held 9-11 June 2003 in Linz, Austria. Papers due 7 March 2003. Workshop on Autonomic Computing To be held 1-5 September 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. Abstracts due 8 March 2003. Papers due 22 March 2003. The main focus of this workshop is on an entirely new area that of Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS). Or is it just, as some might say, old wine in new bottles? ACS are systems which are self-managed, self-healing, self-organised, that are ultra-reliable, robust, yet dynamically flexible. So far, the computing community may have focussed on one aspect or another of these requirements, but we believe that never before the ambitious target of developing an ICT system that exhibits all these features have been contemplated before. There are many grand challenges to be met and many open questions here that need to be explored. Put simply, it is about enterprises trying to handle and manage an ever increasing complex environment consisting of software, hardware and communication infrastructure. Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing Workshop To be held 14-15 July 2003, in conjunction with AAMAS 2003. Papers due 7 April 2003. This workshop will bring together researchers working on agent systems and P2P computing with the intention of strengthening this connection. Programming Multiagent Systems Languages Workshops The First International Workshop on Programming Multiagent Systems languages, frameworks, techniques and tools. Papers due 7 April 2003. To be held with AAMAS 03. Declarative Agent Languages and Tech. Workshop The First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT) is to be held 15 July 2003, in conjunction with AAMAS 2003. Papers due 11 April 2003. Proceedings by Springer-Verlag.DALT aims at fostering a discussion forum to export declarative programming techniques into the community of agent researchers and practitioners and, on the other hand, to bring in the issues of real-world, complex, and possibly large-scale agent system design in the perspective of formal methods and declarative technologies. Safe Agents Workshop In some fielded agent applications and in many envisioned ones, inappropriate behavior by agents can have serious consequences. For multiagent applications to be fully accepted by our society, there needs to be some assurance that agents will behave appropriately. The Safe Agents workshop is focused on technology for making agents "safe" for real world applications. To be held with AAMAS 2003. Papers due 4 April 2003. ESAW'03 Workshop Fourth International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World shall provideagain a platform for animated and highly inter-disciplinary constructivediscussions about tools, technologies, and methodologies for engineering ofcomplex distributed applications. Papers due 17 June 2003. To be held 29-31 October 2003 in London, UK. First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems The aim of this first European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial European efforts. Papers due 3 October 2003. To be held at the University of Oxford. 2002 Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Workshop A special track of the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002). To be held 10-14 March 2002 in Madrid, Spain. Papers due 1 September 2001. Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems Workshop A special track of thThe 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002), to be held 10-14 March 2002 in Madrid, Spain. Papers due 1 September 2001. "We would like to extend invitation to the critics of the MMS approach that can scientifically demonstrate why the MMS framework will not lead to realistic breakthroughs". AAAI Symposium on Collaborative Learning Agents The workshop focues on how we might use adaptive agents to build multiagent systems that satisfy a specified emergent behavior. To be held 25-27 March 2002 in Stanford University. Papers due 15 October 2001. CIA-2002 Workshop The Sixth International workshop on cooperative information agents is to be held 18-20 September 2002 in Madrid, Spain. Papers due 8 April 2002. M-Services Workshop The purpose of this workshop is to understand the role of m-services in the wireless world. M-services can be viewed as a normal extension to e-services. Suggestions of suitable architectures, paradigms, technologies, etc. for m-services are going to be discussed in this workshop. To be held 26 June 2002 in Lyon, France. Papers due 28 February 2002. Software Agents in Business SABIS is to be held 4-6 June 2003 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "Agent-based approaches are controversial. There are those who view them as just a fad. Others believe that these systems are just a repackaging of old ideas, [but] claim that there is potential in this approach from the application developers viewpoint. We would like to extend invitation to the critics and supporters of the agent approach that can demonstrate why the agent framework will or will not lead to realistic breakthroughs in business settings." Workshop on Agent Technologies for e-Services The aim of the workshop is to explore and promote the use of software agent technologies for e-services including automation support for dynamic and collaborative discovery, creation, composition, execution, delivery,monitoring and management of e-services. To be held 7-10 October 2002 in Erfurt, Germany. Papers due 30 June 2002. Resolving Conflicts between Self-Interested Agents The goal of this workshop is to gather and possibly classify existing and innovative practical approaches for the assessment and management of detection and resolution of conflicts, to apply to the construction of robust, fault-tolerant, and flexible multiagent systems, with the help of the participants. Papers due 31 May 2002. To be held 16-20 September 2002 at KI-2002, Aachen, Germany. Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications Fourth International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2002). To be held 10-12 September 2002 in Bandung, Indonesia. Papers due 2 June 2002 with abstracts on 1 May 2002. Symposium on MAS, Large Complex Systems, and E-Businesses The 3rd International Symposium on Multi-Agent Systems, Large Complex Systems, and E-Businesses (MALCEB'2002), to be held 8-10 October 2002 in Erfurt/Thuringia, Germany. Papers due 30 June 2002. Challenges in Open Agent Systems Workshop The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for agent researchers and industry to discuss the challenges of applying agent technology in open heterogenous environments. Papers due 15 April 2002. To be held 15-16 July 2002. Trust in Agent Societies Workshop Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societes Workshop. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal Canada along with Agents 2001. Papers due 16 March 2001. Agent Oriented Software Engineering AOSE 2001 To be held 15-16 July 2002 at Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002) in Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy. Papers due 22 April 2002. Software Engineering of MultiAgent Systems The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for the presentation of preliminary work or novel ideas in the area of Software Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems. It is also an opportunity to disseminate work in progress, particularly for new researchers. Papers due 8 February 2002. To be held 14-18 July 2002 in Orlando, Florida. Computational Logic in MultiAgent Systems CLIMA 02. The purpose of this workshop is to present techniques, based on computational logic (CL), for multi-agent systems in a formal way. Papers due 30 April 2002. To be held 1 August 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2001 Computational Logic in MAS Workshop CLIMA-01 is the third workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, held in association with ICLP-2001, Paphos, Cyprus. To be held 1 December 2001. Papers due 25 August 2001. MAAMAW'2001 MAAMAW'01 will be the 10th issue of the MAAMAW series of workshops, the major event about Multi-Agent Systems research regularly held in Western Europe since 1989. As the ICMAS series are becoming yearly, the MAAMAW workshops will move back to their original spirit. The MAAMAW workshop promotes interdisciplinary grounding, innovative work, recent results, large place for discussion, for a limited audience (100) in a convivial site. To be held 2-4 May 2001 in Annecy, France. Papers due 23 March 2001. ECOMAS Evolutionary Computation and Multiagent Systems workshop. To be held 7 July 2001. Papers due 12 March 2001. Multiagent Systems for Learning Workshop The full title is "Multi-Agent Architectures Supporting Distributed Learning in a Wired and Wireless Future Workshop". To be held 19 May 2001, close to Agents 2001. Papers due 15 March 2001. TESADI Workshop. Technology, Economic and Social Applications of Distributed Intelligence. To be held with the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’01) in Tucson, Arizona, USA. To be held 7-10 October 2001. Papers due 10 April 2001. Workshop on Learning Agents AGENTS-00/ECML-00 Joint Workshop on Learning Agents. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal Canada. Papers due 16 March 2001. Agent-Oriented Information Systems AOIS 2001. To be held 28 May 2001 in Montreal Canada along with Agents 01. Papers due 28 February 2001. Norms and Institutions in MAS Workshop. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal, Canada with Agents 2001. Papers due 16 March 2001. Infrastructure for MASs Workshop. Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal, Canada along with Agents 2001. Papers due 16 March 2001. Trust in Agent Societies Workshop Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societes Workshop. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal Canada along with Agents 2001. Papers due 16 March 2001. Ontologies in Agent Systems Workshop. To be held 29 May 2001 with Agents 2001 in Montreal Canada. Papers due 9 March 2001. AOC Workshop. Autonomy Oriented Computation Workshop. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal, Canada along with Agents 2001. Papers due 9 March 2001. AEMAS Workshop Workshop on Adaptability and Embodiment using Multi-Agent Systems. To be held 7 July 2001 in Prage, Cz., along with ACAI'01. Papers due 15 April 2001. Coordination, Languages Workshop. Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Workshop. Special track of SAC 2001. To be held 11-14 March 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Papers due 1 September 2000. Cluster and Grid Computing Workshop International Workshop on Agent Based Cluster and Grid Computing. Part of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CGrid'2001). To be held 16-18 May 2001 in Brisbane, Australia . Papers due 20 February 2001. " Like an electrical power grid, the Grid will aim to provide a steady, reliable source of computing power."Cool idea. WebDyn Workshop International Workshop on Web Dynamics 2001, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Database Theory in London, UK. To be held 3 January 2001. Papers due 14 October 2000. PRIMA 2001 The 4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. To be held 28-29 July 2001 in Taipei, Taiwan. Papers due 5 April 2001. Distributed Objects and Applications workshop The third international workshop on distributed object and applications (DOA 01) . To be held 18-20 September 2001 in Rome, Italy. Papers due 1 April 2001. CIA-2001 Workshop Fifth International Workshop CIA-2001 on Cooperative Information Agents. To be held 6-8 September 2001 in Modena, Italy. Papers due 10 April 2001. RoboCup International Symposium To held 7-10 August 2001 along with IJCAI 2001. Papers due 15 March 2001. ATAL 2001 To be held 1-3 August 2001 along with IJCAI 2001. Papers due 6 April 2001. Negotiation Methods Workshop Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems Workshop. Part of the AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium series. To be held 2-4 November 2001 at the Sea Crest Conference Center in North Falmouth, Masachusetts. Papers due 30 March 2001. Agent Oriented Software Engineering AOSE 2001. To be held 29 May 2001 in Montreal, Canada, along with Agents 2001. Papers due 19 March 2001. EC-01 Trading Agent Competition The 2001 Trading Agent Compeitition (TAC-01) is the second in a series of open-invitation events featuringsoftware agents from all over the world competing in a challenging market game. This year's event will culminate at the Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, to be held 14-17 October 2001 in Tampa, Florida. 2000 WEHIA2000 - Maastricht The 6th annual workshop on economics with heterogeneous interacting agents. To be held 7-9 June 2001 in Maastricht. Papers due 20 February 2001. AT2AI 2000 From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation, at the 15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Papers Oct. 10, 1999. Conference April 25-28, 2000. Vienna, Austria. CIA-2000 Workshop Cooperative Information Agents workshop, co-located with ICMAS 2000. 7-9 July 2000, Boston MA. Software Agents-based Workflow *news*A special session on: Software Agents and Workflows for Systems Interoperability at the Thirteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Papers due 7 January 2000. Montreal, Canada. ASA/MA 2000 Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA 2000), Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA 2000). September 13-15, 2000, Zurich, Switzerland. Papers due 3 March 2000. Knowledge based Electronic Markets Workshop The AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets. Monday, July 31, Austin TX, USA. Papers due March 10, 2000. AOSE- 2000 The First International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering. June 10, 2000 - Limerick, Ireland. To be held at the Twenty Second International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000). Papers due 1 February 2000. ECAI 2000 Workshop Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making. Papers due 8 April 2000. To be held 22 Aug 2000 in Berlin, Humboldt University. First International Workshop on Databases and Multi-Agent Systems Papers due 6 March 2000. Conference 26-29 June 2000, Las Vegas. Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in MAS Workshop. Part of ECAI 2000. Papers due 5 January 2000. RoboCup Rescue (ICMAS'2000) Multi-Agent Approaches to the Simulation and Management of Major Urban Disasters. This workshop builds on the robocup (soccer) competitions but changes the setting to a rescue operation. It is not a competion. Papers are due 10 March 2000. Workshop is 8 July 2000 in Boston. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Search for Reasoning Part of AAAI-2000. Papers due 10 March 2000. Workshop is Julay 30- Aug. 3 in Austin Texas. AOIS-2000 Agent-Oriented Information Systems Workshop. Papers due 1 March 2000. Workshop bill be held 5-6 June 2000, Stockholm (Sweden) at CAiSE-2000, and 30 July 2000, Austin (Texas, USA) at AAAI-2000 RoboCup-2000 Workshop The Fourth Internaltional workshop on Robocup. AI, MAS, robotic techniques as applied to the robocup domain. Papers due 1 May 2000. ESAW-00 Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World. Papers due 7 April 2000. To be held 21 August 2000 in Berlin, in conjuction with ECAI 2000. Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Has two topics: "MAS Infrastructure and Requirements", and "Infrastructure Scalability". To be held in conjunction with Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Workshop on Game and Decision theoretic agents Papers due 17 March 2000. Workshop to be held in conjunction with ICMAS 2000, Boston, MA. Evolutionary Intelligent Agents Special Session on Evolutionary Intelligent Agents of <A HREF="http://www.dsp.pub.ro/CEC2000/">CEC2000</A>. Papers due 1 March 2000. Session to be held in the framework of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, La Jolla Marriott, San Diego, CA, USA, July 16-19, 2000. Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems for e-commerce This is a workshop and special issue of the Netnomics journal about using evolutionary learning by intelligent multi-agent systems. With particular emphasis on application in economics in general and electronic commerce (E-Commerce, Internet trading) in particular.. Papers due 23 March 2000. Held in conjunction with GECCO-2000 on 8-14 July 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada. MATA-00 Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications. Papers due 30 April 2000. To be held 18-20 September 2000 in Paris, France. WARS 2000 Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Papers due 6 December 1999. Conference 3-7 June 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Workshop on Learning Agents Held jointly with AGENTS-00 and ECML-00 in Barcelona, Spain on 3 June 2000. Papers due 13 March 2000. Ants'2000 ANTS'2000 is the second edition of the only event entirely devoted to ant algorithms and to Ant Colony Optimization. To be held 8-9 September 2000 in Brussels, Belgium. PRIIA 2000 1st Pacific Rim International Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents. 29 August 2000 in conjunction with the 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2000) Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia . Papers due 1 June 2000. CLIMA-00 CL-2000 Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems in association with CL-2000, London, UK. Two day workshop during July 24th -- 29th, 2000. Papers due April 30th 2000. Autonomous agent 2000 Workshop on Agent Communication Papers due 17 March 2000. RoboCup-2000 Workshop Submission deadline for papers, posters, and videos: May 1, 2000. MAMA'2000 Multi-Agent and Mobile Agent in virtual organizations and e-commerce symposioum, to be help with ISA'2000, 12-15 December 2000, in Wollongong, Australia. Papers due 12 June 2000. Third Iberoamerican Workshop on DAI and MAS To be held in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil November 20-22, 2000. Papers due 18 June 2000. PRIMA 2000 3rd Pacific Rim International Workshop on MultiAgents, in conjunction with PRICAI 2000. To be held 28-29 August 2000 in Melbourne, Australia. UKMAS 2000 3rd workshop of the UK Special-Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems. To be held 14-15 December 2000 in Oxford. Papers due 15 September 2000. Intelligent Agents Track at IDEAL Intelligent Agents track in the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Hong Kong, Dec, 2000. Multiagent Learning Workshop at ICML-2000 This is a workshop held with the International Conference on Machine Learning. Papers are due 6 June 2000. 1999 Impact A symposium on the impact of agent technology on telecommunications. To be held in Seattle, WA. 2-3 December 1999. UKMAS 99 The Second Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS'99) is being hosted by Hewlett Packard Labs Bristol and will be held there on the 6th and 7th of December 1999. Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems Sponsored by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It aims to bring together practitioners and academics with an interest in formal specification techniques, intelligent agent-based systems, and the intersection of these areas.Papers due 15 December 1999. Worshop on Agents in E-commerce Papers due 5 October 1999. Workshop on 14 December 1999. Hong Kong. IMACS Agent-Based simulation Planning and Control. Papers due 25 October 1999. Conference 21-25 August 2000. Switzerland. Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents AI in Electronic Commerce Workshop Papers due 20 September 1999. Workshop 6 December 1999. Australia. Emergent Computing These people do a lot of workshops on emergent computing. They are all in the UK. PRIMA99 The Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents. Agents for Electronic Commerce and Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply Chain. It has all the right buzzwords. Part of Agents'99. MATA 99 First International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications. Ottawa, Oct. 6-8, 1999 Communities in Electronic Commerce Part of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. CEEMAS-99 First international workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-agent Systems. AI for EC AAAI'99 Workshop on AI for Electronic Commerce. SICP'99 Agents'99 Workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies. Coordinating Distributed Software Development Projects in WET ICE '99 AOIS'99 Agent-Oriented Information Systems. AiDIN'99 AAAI'99 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Distributed Information Networking. Workshop on Agents' Conflicts Part of AAAI-99. CLIMATE- Industrial Agents workshop. The Cluster for Intelligent Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Environments (CLIMATE) represents a pool of projects within the European Union collaborative research and development programme on Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS). Papers and slides available online. IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent Communication Languages ATAL-99 The Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99) DEXA 99 Workshop on Software Agents DEXA '99 Workshop on Software Agents IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agents Learning About, From and With other Agents Papers are available online. ASA/MA'99 First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA'99). Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA'99). CIA-99 Third International Workshop CIA-98 Cooperative Information Agents 1998 AAAI-97 Workshop on Multiagent Learning Second UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (FoMAS'97) Proceedings: ML95 Workshop on `Agents that Learn from Other Agents' PRIMA98 Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents First International Workshop on Databases and Multi-Agent Systems The First International Workshop on Databases and Multi-Agent Systems

Courses

ASAMAS: 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. It is to be held 14-17 July 2006 along with AAMAS in Boston. Scholarships are still available.
Multi-Agent Systems: U. Delaware. CISC 889,
Sistemas Multiagents: Thats MultiAgent systems in Spanish, as is the whole course.
Agents et Systemes Multiagents: Université LAVALA course on MAS in French, taught by Prof. Chaib-draa.
CS525: Multi-Agent Systems: Worcester Polytechnic InstituteA graduate course on multi-agent systems taught by Adina Florea.
Agent Systems Summer School: The Third European Agent Systems Summer School has been incorporated into the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence ACAI-01. The ACAI-01 course will present the current state of the art in theoretical foundations of Multi-Agent Systems as well as demonstrate the applicability of these systems in many practical tasks. To be held 2-13 July 2001 in Prague, Czech.
Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems: Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Annually organized course by the AI department. It is open to the public, for a fee.
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.
European Agent Systems Summer School: The 2002 EASSS will be held the week before ICAAMAS in Bologna, Italy. It will consist of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the MAS field, and will cover the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of agent-based computing.
Agents and Multi-agents for Dynamic Information Systems: UIUC. LIS 450: A class in the School of Library and Information Science taught by Les Gasser.
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.
Intelligent Agents, Mobile Agents, and Multi-Agent Systems: Iowa State . CS 673.
M.Sc. Intelligent and Multiagent Systems: The University of Westminster UK is now inviting applications from students wishing to study for this new graduate degree. The degree covers all aspects of Agent-based Systems with an emphasis on the application of techniques from Artificial Intelligence to such systems. Teaching starts in October 2002.
Workshops on agent technology: The University of Maine and the Agent Institute are holding a series of 6 workshops between September 2000 and June 2001. These meetings are designed to introduce agent based technology and current research to the development and industrial/commercial markets while at the same time introducing researchers to their market partners.
Software Multiagent Systems: A class at the Univ. of Southern California that investigates computational systems in which software agents interact with each other and with humans. Taught by Milind Tambe.
DEA IARFA: U. ParisA course for graduate students (in french) on Multi-Agent Systems and Collective Intelligence. Slides are downloadable.
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.
International Semantic Web Doctoral Symposium: ISWDS20O5 1st International Semantic Web Doctoral Symposium at Galway, Republic of Ireland to be held 7 November 7 2005. Part of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference. The Doctoral Symposium is a forum for doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to provide contact to other students at a similar stage in their careers. The mentors are senior university or industry researchers, e.g., current or former members of the ISWC program committee.
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.
MAS.790 - Distributed Systems: MIT Media Lab. MAS 790.
AgentLink: European Agent Systems Summer School 1999 (EASSS'99): The school will consist of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses, covering the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of agent-based computing. NSF funding for students is now <A HREF="http://www.agentlink.org/easss99/NSF-grant.html">available</A>.
EASSS 2000- Agent School.: *news*The Second European Agent Systems Summer School will be held 14-18 August 2000 in Germany. It is sponsored by the AgentLink and its an intense week of lectures in all important agent topics. There is financial support for some students.
Second America's School on Agents and Multiagent Systems: The second Americas' school on agents and multiagent systems will be held in summer 2003. The school will be colocated with IJCAI'2003 and IAAI'2003, in Acapulco, Mexico, and it will be held in collaboration with the tutorial program of IJCAI'2003. The school will mainly consist of one week of tutorials focusing on graduate students from around the world, but with a particular focus on students in Americas (North, Central and South America). For each topic covered at the school, we hope to recruit relevant world leaders to deliver the relevant lectures.
First Americas Agents School Summary: Will be held at the University of Southern California. It is sponsored by the International Foundation on Multiagent Systems. The school will mainly consist of one week of tutorials delivered by relevant world leaders in the topic. Registration due 1 December 2001. To be held 7-14 January 2001.
China Agent Systems School: China Agent Systems School is co-sponsored by AA/ATAL/IFMAS, and it is the first time such a school held in China. It will provide you with a tightly-packed introductory, advanced and industrial application course to agents and multi-agent systems. It is an excellent opportunity for young researchers especially post-graduate students to listen to the lectures of well-known experts in agent field. To be held 13-17 December 2004.
Robocup-based CSCE 782: Multiagent systems: A hands-on approach U. South Carolina. CSCE 782. The class I teach. We take a hands-on approach by building robocup teams using standard multiagent techniques. TDDA 14: AI Programming class. Artificial Intelligence Programming class. Includes reports and code for several years. Also has a paper titled "How to make a challenging AI course enjoyable using the RoboCup soccer simulation system". by Cotadeschi and Malec. CD5320: RoboCup Class homepage. Includes reports and source code of final projects. Autonomous Multirobot Systems A class on bulding robots and software agents. Focuses on playing soccer using the Teambot system.

Laboratories Agent-oriented Software Agents. ABE Research Group Stanford. This web page serves as a central directory for the Agent Based Engineering Research Group at Stanford University's Center for Design Research. Agent-Based Manufacturing The ACME project (Agent-based Control in Manufacturing Environments) research group of the University of Trieste, Italy. Agent Web U. Maryland. Information and resources about intelligent information agents, intentional agents, software agents, softbots, knowbots, infobots, etc. Contains very good sections on KQML, KIF and other agent communication languages. Agents@USC A research organization at the University of Southern California (USC) that combines the agents related efforts of several researchers, laboratories, institutes at USC. agents.usc.edu is a web site that describes all of the different agents@usc research efforts that are on-going, the recognition obtained by our faculty and students, any on-going agent-related events at USC and provides links to all of the different research efforts. We also organize seminars. Intelligent Agent Laboratory University of Melbourne. Founded in 1994, the Agentlab has a long history of research into intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. Over this period the Agentlab has generated a large body of agent related publications. The Agentlab collaborates with international research groups and industry partners, including spin-off agent companies that now operate in the vicinity of the University. University of Maine Agent Institute U. MaineDedicated to bringing research, development, and industry together for the purpose of advancing agent-based technology in all sectors of the state. AFIT Agent Lab Air force. "The goal of the AFIT Artificial Intelligence/Agent Lab is to bring together researchers with various expertise to solve interesting problems in the area of multi-agent systems development and agent security. Our research incorporates existing methodologies and techniques from other related disciplines including artificial intelligence, cryptography, information security, networks, genetic algorithms, and software engineering into an integrated agent development methodology for secure agent systems."They also develop AgentTool. Autonomous Agents Laboratory U. of ManitobaThe goal of our work is the improvement of technolo gy surrounding hardware and software agents and the development of applications employing these technologies. We are especially interested in cooperation in multi-agent settings, and the infrastructure necessary to support this and other forms of social interaction in intelligent systems. Center for Information Technology U. South Carolina.The Center for Information Technology establishes the U. of South Carolina as a leader in the research and development of advanced information systems. Researchers at the Center are investigating multiagent systems, conceptual modeling, ontological engineering, distributed database systems, and computational intelligence. Center on Social and Economic Dynamics The Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution utilizes multi-agent systems for empirically-oriented modeling. They pioneered the use of agent-based computer modeling to study the aggregate effects of individual behavior on society. CERC West Virginia U.The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) is an independent, interdisciplinary research laboratory at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. CERC's primary focus is the research, development, and demonstration of state-of-the-art information technologies and methodologies that support teamwork. Cognitive Robotics Group U. of Toronto. The group has developed effective methods for representing and reasoning about the prerequisites and effects of actions, perception and other knowledge-producing

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