Agents in Bioinformatics

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Michael Luck, Emanuela Merelli
The Knowledge Engineering Review 20(2), pp. 117–125
giugno 2005

The scope of the Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) was to inspire collaboration between the agent and bioinformatics communities with the aim of creating an opportunity to propose a different (agent-based) approach to the development of computational frameworks both for data analysis in bioinformatics and for system modelling in computational biology. During the day, the participants examined the future of research on agents in bioinformatics primarily through 12 invited talks selected to cover the most relevant topics. From the discussions, it became clear that there are many perspectives to the field, ranging from bio-conceptual languages for agent-based simulation, to the definition of bio-ontology-based declarative languages for use by information agents, and to the use of Grid agents, each of which requires further exploration. The interactions between participants encouraged the development of applications that describe a way of creating agent-based simulation models of biological systems, starting from an hypothesis and inferring new knowledge (or relations) by mining and analysing the huge amount of public biological data. In this report we summarize and reflect on the presentations and discussions.

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Journal_icon.svg The Knowledge Engineering Review (KER)
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Project_icon.svg AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)
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Publication_icon.svg Multiagent Resource Allocation (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Maudet, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar
Publication_icon.svg Towards Semantic Web Agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Terry Payne, Valentina Tamma
Publication_icon.svg Environments in Multiagent Systems (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Tom Holvoet
Publication_icon.svg Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón
Publication_icon.svg Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos
Publication_icon.svg Programming Multi-Agent Systems (articolo in rivista, 2005) — Mehdi Dastani, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz
Publication_icon.svg The AgentLink III Technical Forums: Introduction to the Special Issue (editoriale/introduzione/prefazione, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Peter McBurney