Agent based High Performance Computing ``Problem Solving Applications and Practical Deployment'' at Autonomous Agents99 Seattle, Washington, USA May 1, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9:15 Welcome and Introduction Kate Stout, David Kotz, Omer Rana, David Walker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Session 1: Chair: Deploying Agents Kate Stout ----------------------------------------------- Craig Thompson, Tom Bannon, 9:30 Agents for the Masses Paul Pazandak, and Venu Vasudevan Object Services and Consulting, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ D. Moore AT&T Laboratories, USA Control and Management in a 10:00 Mobile Agent S. Foster, B. Nebesh Workflow Architecture Department of Defense, USA M. Flester RABA Technologies, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:30 Break ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robustness and Scalability in Large Agent 11:00 System Deployment: Amy Unruh Lessons Learned from MCC, USA InfoSleuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Session 2: Agents in Distributed Chairs: Computing David Kotz and Omer Rana ----------------------------------------------- R Ghanea-Hercock, J. C. Collis and 11:30 Heterogeneous Mobile Agents D. T. Ndumu for Distributed Processing BT Laboratories, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. Muthukrishnan and Suresh T. B. 12:00 A Multi-Agent Approach to Indian Institute of Technology, Distributed Computing Madras, India ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12:30 Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Panel Session A: 13:30 "Real World issues in Led by Kate Stout, Sun Microsystems implementing agents" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A. Bivens, L. Gao, M. Hulber and B. 14:00 Agent Based Network Monitoring Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Session 3: Chair: Applications David Walker ----------------------------------------------- Agent Middleware for Shirun Ho 14:30 Scientific Central Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd, Heterogeneous Simulations Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Design of Software Agents P. Tsompanopoulou, L. Boloni, 15:00 for D.Marinescu and J. Rice a Network of PDE Solvers Purdue University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15:30 Break ------------------------------------------------------------------------ W-S Chen, C. Lin National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC 16:00 A Ray Tracing Mobile Agent Y.N. Lien National Chengchi University, Taiwan, ROC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Led by: Kate Stout, Sun Microsystems, USA 16:30 Panel Session B: David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA Wrap Up Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK David Walker, Cardiff University, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18:00 End of Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------------