Agent Technology Conference 2005 AgentLink III Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK Michal Pe

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Agent Technology Conference2005AgentLink III
Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool,
UKMichal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University
www.agentlink.org
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What is AgentLink III

• Collaboration network to support RD in Agent
  Technologies in Europe
• Funded by the EC
• Runs from January 2004 December 2005
• Successor to AgentLink I II (1999-2003).

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Members

• Currently 192 Members and 21 Associate members
• Sectoral breakdown
• 65 Universities
• 16 Research Institutes
• 19 Commercial enterprises
• Members from 21 nations across Europe.

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AgentLink III Objectives

• Achieve competitive advantage through increased
  adoption of agent technologies
• Improve standards, profile industrial relevance
  of research in agents
• Promote research co-ordination, commercial
  adoption and student integration
• Become the leading European forum for issues,
  problems solutions in agent research and
  development.

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AgentLink III Activities

• Industrial Awareness
• Promoting commercial applications of agent
  technologies
• Standards collaboration
• Working with relevant standards bodies
• Research support
• Supporting European research dissemination
• Agent Technology Roadmap
• Charting future scenarios for agent technology
  development
• Student integration
• Fostering RD skills in the next generation
• Information infrastructrure
• Facilitating AgentLink work and research
  co-ordination.

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The Agent Portalwww.agentlink.org
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Web Resources

• Links to
• Conferences
• Sponsored Events
• Resources
• Member profiles
• Agent publications
• Agent software
• Agent jobfinder
• Inter-network activities
• Standards activities

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AgentLink News
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Industrial Awareness

• Aims to
• Promote commercial awareness takeup of agent
  technologies
• Foster new collaborations in promising areas of
  agent technology
• Facilitate take-up through published case
  studies.
• Activities
• Agent Technology Conference, database of case
  studies, promotion.

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Agent Technology Conference
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Thanks to oursupporters
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ATC 2005 Programme

• 09.15 Michal Pechoucek, Peter McBurney-
  AgentLink III
• 09.30 Ken Woghiren LostWax10.00 Gotz
  Brasche Microsoft Innovation10.30 Kurt Fessl
  - Profactor
• 11.00 Coffee 11.30 David Marples -
  Telcordia12.00 Chris van Aart Yall
• 1230 James Odell James Odell Associates
• 13.00 Lunch
• 14.00 Michael Luck - AgentLink Roadmap Launch
• 14.30 Panel Discussion Steven Willmott
  (Chair)
• 1530 Demo Sessions 
• Calico Jack, Cambridge Consultants, CertiCon,
  LostWax, Magenta Technology, Noda, Profactor,
  Rockwell Automation, Whitestein Technologies,
  Yall.
• 1800 Close

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To Find Out More

• Talk to one of us today!
• Michal Pechoucek, CTU, Czech Republic
• Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK
• Steven Willmott, UPC, Spain
• Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK
• www.agentlink.org