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AgentLinkThe IST Network of Excellence for
Agent-Based ComputingMichael LuckAgentLink
Director
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What are Agents?

• Autonomous software components
• Capable of acting independently to achieve design
  objectives
• Capable of cooperating with other agents to
  achieve design objectives
• Ideally suited to modern computing in dynamic and
  open environments

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What is AgentLink?

• Open network for agent-based computing.
• Second phase started in Autumn 2000.
• Intended to give European industry a head start
  in a crucial new area of IT.
• A community of member organisations from
  commerce, industry and research
• Free to join!

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Industry Actions

• Promote awareness take-up of agents
• Facilitate technology transfer
• Support promote standards
• FIPA
• OMG Working Group
• Industrial meetings
• Agent Software Database
• Agent Technology Roadmap

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Research Coordination

• Promote academic awareness take-up of agent
  research
• Foster industrially relevant agent research
• Promote new collaborations for technology
  transfer
• Members Profiles
• Sponsored events

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Education Training

• Foster agent-related RD skills
• Disseminate
• Agent-related courses
• European Agent Systems Summer School
• Most successful agent training event
• Courses by world leaders
• Bologna, Italy, 8-12 July 2002
• Details at www.agentlink.org

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Special Interest Groups

• Free access to leading edge research and
  researchers
• Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
• Agent-Based Social Simulation
• Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent
  Systems
• Intelligent Information Agents
• Intelligent and Mobile Agents for Telecoms and
  the Internet
• Agents that Learn Adapt and Discover

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Information Infrastructure

• Provide a communication management
  infrastructure for AgentLink
• Dedicated agent portal
• www.AgentLink.org
• AgentLink News magazine
• Mailing lists
• General coordination

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The Agent Portalwww.AgentLink.org
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Newsletter
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How many members do you have?

• 151 full members
• Twenty-two countries
• Industrial giants
• Technology providers
• User organisations

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Industrial Members
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Industrial Members
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Can I Join?

• AgentLink is open to
• all European industry
• all European academic sites that demonstrate
  excellence in agent research
• Membership is free!

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To Find Out More

• Dr Michael Luck (AgentLink Director)
• Department of Electronics and Computer Science
• University of Southampton
• Highfield
• Southampton SO17 1BJ
• United Kingdom www.AgentLink.org
  coordinator_at_AgentLink.org