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9:15 |
Welcome and Introduction
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Kate Stout, David Kotz, Omer Rana |
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Session 1: Deploying Agents
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Chair: Kate Stout
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9:30 | Agents for the Masses |
Craig Thompson, Tom Bannon, Paul Pazandak, and Venu Vasudevan Object Services and Consulting, Inc. |
10:00 |
Control and Management in a Mobile Agent Workflow Architecture
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D. Moore AT&T Laboratories, USA
S. Foster, B. Nebesh
M. Flester
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10:30 | Break |
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11:00 |
Robustness and Scalability in Large Agent System Deployment: Lessons Learned from InfoSleuth
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Amy Unruh MCC, USA |
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Session 2: Agents in Distributed Computing |
Chairs: David Kotz and Omer Rana
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11:30 |
Heterogeneous Mobile Agents for Distributed Processing
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R Ghanea-Hercock, J. C. Collis and D. T. Ndumu BT Laboratories, UK |
12:00 |
A Multi-Agent Approach to Distributed Computing
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C. Muthukrishnan and Suresh T. B. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India |
12:30 | Lunch |
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13:30 |
Panel Session A: "Real World issues in implementing agents" |
Led by Kate Stout, Sun Microsystems |
14:00 |
Agent Based Network Monitoring
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A. Bivens, L. Gao, M. Hulber and B. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
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Session 3: Applications
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Chair: David Walker |
14:30 |
Agent Middleware for Scientific Heterogeneous Simulations
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Shirun Ho Central Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd, Japan |
15:00 |
The Design of Software Agents for a Network of PDE Solvers
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P. Tsompanopoulou, L. Boloni, D.Marinescu and J. Rice Purdue University, USA
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15:30 | Break |
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16:00 |
A Ray Tracing Mobile Agent
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W-S Chen, C. Lin National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC
Y.N. Lien
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16:30 |
Panel Session B: Wrap Up
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Led by: Kate Stout, Sun Microsystems, USA David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK |
18:00 | End of Workshop |
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