Autonomous Agents 1999 Web Site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99/
Please note: Paper deadline for this workshop is different from the deadline for
the Agents99 conference at the above URL.
The workshop will cover the role of agent based technologies in parallel/high performance computing. The current change in emphasis, from `high performance parallel' computing to `high performance parallel/distributed' computing on commodity computing platforms, has meant new techniques becoming useful (and possible) in scientific computing. The use of code mobility (using mobile agents), and the use of speech-acts (through KQML, FIPA) has meant that agent technology has opened up new research areas in scientific computing, and could potentially lead to new applications areas, in resource management, commercial applications such as data mining and data warehousing.
In order to make these problem solving agent applications possible we need to understand how to deploy agents on a large scale. There are many aspects of this problem, including mechanisms to support large numbers of agents, and how a large number of agents function. Agent deployment must be sufficiently robust and reliable, so that scientists and commercial organizations will entrust agents with mission critical applications.
This workshop will be organized around two themes:
The workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following general areas:
Practical Deployment
Communication
Implementations in particular scientific computing domains will also be considered, and submission of work-in-progress, or work completed, is encouraged. Possible application domains include:
Papers should report new work and should be printable on 8.5x11 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTeX article style, 12 point.) Paper bodies should be no longer than 5000 words, including references and figures (assumed to represent the number of words they replace on the manuscript page). Over-length papers will either be rejected or penalized in the review process. All papers will be reviewed by the programme committee, and selected on their originality, timeliness, relevance and clarity.
Electronic submission is preferred. Please email a PostScript or PDF copy of your submission to Omer Rana (omer@cs.cf.ac.uk) before February 15, 1999. You may also send paper copies to Omer Rana, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, PO Box916, Cardiff CF2 3XF, UK or Kate Stout (Kate.Stout@sun.com), Sun Microsystems, 2 Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 02124, USA.
Papers will be posted on the workshop website prior to the workshop, to allow attendees to read materials before the workshop.
Submission Deadline: February 15, 1999
All presentations must be between 20 to 25 minutes. This will be followed by a directed discussion of the presentation. The discussion will be lead by some members of the program committee.
Towards the end of the workshop, the general issues generated from the workshop will be examined.
Professor David Walker Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, PO Box 916, Cardiff CF2 3XF, UK email: david@cs.cf.ac.uk |
Kate Stout Agent Research Team, Sun Labs Sun Microsystems, 2 Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 02124, USA phone: 978-442-0948 email: Kate.Stout@sun.com |
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Professor David Kotz Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA email: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu |
Omer Rana Parallel and Scientific Computing Group, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, PO Box 916, Cardiff CF2 3XF, UK email: omer@cs.cf.ac.uk phone: +44 1222 875 542 |
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David Walker | Cardiff University, UK |
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David Kotz | Dartmouth College, USA |
Omer Rana | Cardiff University, UK |
Kate Stout |
Sun Microsystems, Massachusetts, USA |
Philippe De Wilde | Imperial College, London, UK |
Mark Baker | Portsmouth University, UK |
Siamek Hasanzadeh |
Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, USA |
Geofferey Fox | Syracuse University, USA |
Vladimir Getov | University of Westminster, UK |
Lyndon Lee | BT Labs, UK |
Anupam Joshi | University of Maryland, USA |
Jean-Louis Pazat | EuroTools and IRISA, France |
Serge Chaumette |
LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France |
Elias Houstis | Purdue University, USA |
Micheal Fisher |
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo |
Teleinformatics Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
Jeremy Baxter | DERA, UK |
Paolo Petta |
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Erann Gat | JPL, Caltech, USA |
Katia Sycara | Carnegie Mellon, USA |
Danny Lange | General Magic, USA |
Luciano Serafini |
Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy |
Jan Treur |
Informatics, Vrije University, Netherlands |
Anna Ciampolini | University of Bologna, Italy |
Kurt Rothermel |
IPVR, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany |
Naren Ramakrishnan |
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA |
Hyacinth Nwana | BT Labs, UK |
Piyush Mehrotra |
ICASE, NASA Langley, USA |
Hillol Kargupta | Washington State University, USA |
Jeffrey Bradshaw |
Intelligent Agent technology, Boeing, USA |
Bent Thomsen | ICL, UK |
Denis Caromel |
INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France |
Maria Gini | University of Minnesota, USA |
Giacomo Piccinelli | Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, UK |