The UMBC software agents mailing list [1] is one of the oldest resources of information on agents and multiagent systems. It was started in 1994 by Ray Johnson, then at the Lockheed Palo Alto AI Center and moved to UMBC in 1996. This week it upgraded its support infrastructure from Majordomo to GNU Mailman. Majordomo represented the state of the art for mailing list software in 1996, but development stopped sometime around 2001. Moving to Mailman will make it easier for us to maintain the list and let the ~2000 subscribers manage a wider range of their subscription options.

Topics of interest for the agents mailing list include: agent architectures, agent communication, agent learning, evolution, and adaptation, agent norms and trust, agent ontologies, agent-oriented software engineering, autonomic computing, autonomy, believable agents, cognitive agent models, cooperative distributed problem solving, electronic markets and institutions, embodied agents, emergent behavior, ethical and legal issues, FIPA standards, formal agent models, interface agents, MAS planning and learning, mechanism design, auctions, and game theory, mobile agents, multiagent systems, pervasive computing, agent-oriented robotics, simulation systems, and standardization efforts.

The agents list welcomes new subscribers who can sign up at the software agents mailing list [2] page.