AL3-TF2

Agent research and technologies form a vibrant body of multi-faceted and inter-disciplinary activities.  An ever-growing number of researchers and practicioneers in the industry and academia is embracing the agent paradigm and its methodological and technological apparatus to address the many issues posed by the engineering of today complex artificial systems.  In such a lively context, one of the main roles of AgentLink (in its third incarnation, as a FP6 Coordination Action) is clearly to encourage and promote new directions for agent research, by providing the places and the means for people actively playing in the agent area to meet, share and discuss original ideas, stimulating problems and effective solutions.

Along this direction, one of the main activities of AgentLink and AgentLink II was to establish SIGs (special interest groups) as group of researchers and developers sharing an interest in a specific sub-area of agent models and technologies. Whilst the advantage of SIGs was that they were formed as a result of mostly unsolicited, refereed proposals made by AgentLink II members, it meant that support was provided only for communities formed early on, with little provision for emerging research areas, such as in Bioinformatics, Law, or synergies with complementary research areas such as the Semantic Web. In an effort to ensure effective and appropriate representation, and to reflect the dynamism of the field, AgentLink III created the Technical Fora (AL3-TFs), in which Technical Forum Groups (TFGs) can form, and congregate to discuss issues of key interest.

The First AgentLink III Technical Forum was held in Rome, 30 June - 2 July 2004, and resulted in a number of fruitful meetins and exciting discussions within several agent-related scientific communities: the reports from these meetings appear in the latter half of this brochure.  Some of these groups are meeting again at this, the Second AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF2) which is taking place during early 2005 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.  Also, three new groups have formed ex-novo, and meet for the first time here at AL3-TF2 in Ljubljana.  The details of the program and of the TF2 groups appear in the following pages: given the number ahd the level of the researchers involved, and the enthusiastic and competent work of the TFG Chairs, the Second AgentLink III Technical Forum promises to provide more stimulating discussion over the next few days, thus enforcing the process of creation and promotion of new research areas within the European AgentLink community.

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

origin event for publication

 A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2006) — Rafael H. Bordini, Lars Braubach, Mehdi Dastani, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, João Leite, Gregory O’Hare, Alexander Pokahr, Alessandro Ricci

 Industrial Deployment of Multi-Agent Technologies: Review and Selected Case Studies (article in journal, 2008) — Michal Pěchouček, Vladimír Mařík

 Specifying Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems Interaction (article in journal, 2007) — Stefan Poslad

 Coordination Artifacts: A Unifying Abstraction for Engineering Environment-Mediated Coordination in MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

 Multiagent Resource Allocation (article in journal, 2005) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

 Agents in Bioinformatics (article in journal, 2005) — Michael Luck, Emanuela Merelli

 Towards Semantic Web Agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink (article in journal, 2005) — Terry Payne, Valentina Tamma

 Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Michael I. Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Tom Holvoet

 Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Artificial Self-organised Systems (article in journal, 2006) — Jean-Pierre Mano, Christine Bourjot, Gabriel Lopardo, Pierre Glize

 High Variability Design for Software Agents: Extending Tropos (article in journal, 2007) — Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John Mylopoulos

 Agent Modeling Language (AML): A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Ivan Trencansky, Radovan Cervenka

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón

 Issues in Multiagent Resource Allocation (article in journal, 2006) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître, Nicolas Maudet, Julian Padget, Steve Phelps, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Paulo Sousa

 Editorial: Special Issue on Foundations, Advanced Topics and Industrial Perspectives of Multi-agent Systems (editorial/introduction/preface, 2008) — Peter McBurney, Andrea Omicini

 On Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social, Business and Economic Domains (article in journal, 2006) — Salima Hassas, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, Cristiano Castelfranchi

 Towards a Unified View of the Environment(s) within Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

 Special Issue on Foundations, Advanced Topics and Industrial Perspectives of Multi-agent Systems (special issue, 2008) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney

 Artifacts in the A&A Meta-Model for Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2008) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

 Autonomic Communication Services: A New Challenge for Software Agents (article in journal, 2008) — Raffaele Quitadamo, Franco Zambonelli

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research II” (special issue, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I” (special issue, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Awareness in Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments: The Multilayered Multi-Agent Situated System Approach (article in journal, 2007) — Marco P. Locatelli, Giuseppe Vizzari

 The Tropos Metamodel and its Use (article in journal, 2005) — Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research – Part 2 (editorial/introduction/preface, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Applications of Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems: An Initial Framework for Comparison (article in journal, 2006) — Carole Bernon, Vincent Chevrier, Vincent Hilaire, Paul Marrow

 A Framework for Web Service Negotiation (article in journal, 2007) — Shamimabi Paurobally, Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge

 Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos

 On the Role of Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

 Programming Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Mehdi Dastani, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz

 An Overview of Current Trends in European AOSE Research (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón

 The AgentLink III Technical Forums: Introduction to the Special Issue (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney

 Introduction to the Special Issue: The AgentLink III Technical Forums (editorial/introduction/preface, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney

 Technology Diffusion: Analysing the Diffusion of Agent Technologies (article in journal, 2008) — Jez McKean, Hayden Shorter, Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Steven Willmott

 Special Issue “Revised Reports from Selected Technical Forum Groups at the 1st & 2nd AgentLink III Technical Forums” (special issue, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney

 Self-Organisation and Emergence in MAS: An Overview (article in journal, 2006) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos

 Special Issue on the AgentLink III Technical Forums (special issue, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney

source event for

 Special Issue on Foundations, Advanced Topics and Industrial Perspectives of Multi-agent Systems •  Special Issue “Revised Reports from Selected Technical Forum Groups at the 1st & 2nd AgentLink III Technical Forums” •  Special Issue “The AgentLink Perspective on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems” •  Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I” •  Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research II”