DM: CFP: Meeting of AgentLink SIG on Intelligent Information Agents

[Matthias Klusch]

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                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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       Second Meeting of the AgentLink Special Interest Group on

                    INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS

                          April 21 & 22, 1999 London (UK)

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       http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/SIGM2.html


The main aim of this special interest group (SIG) is to promote
collaborative projects and cross fertilisation of ideas between
academic nodes with similar interests in the research area of
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS (I2A).
This shall be done, e.g., by putting groups with related interests
in touch with one-another, providing and disseminating information
about work of national and international groups and projects in the
I2A area, supporting workshops and conferences of interest.

For more details about the I2A-SIG, please, see the SIG's home page
in the Web, bookmark it and check back often for up-to-date
informations:

        http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/i2a-SIG.html

This SIG meeting is *not* an academic workshop.  Topics concern
SIG's further activities in european R&D of intelligent
information agents, presentation and discussion of collaborative
efforts and advances in R&D in the area.


PARTICIPATION
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The number of attendees of this meeting is limited to 40 persons.
AgentLink SIG meetings are **by invitation only**, i.e., all
participants have to confirm their attendance of the meeting, and have
to be confirmed by the meeting chair.

If you like to attend the meeting please send a STATEMENT OF INTEREST
to arrive not later than

        JANUARY 15, 1999,

including

(1) your name, affiliation and full contact address

(2) list of recent and ongoing collaborations and participation in 
national and     european research programs or projects of your
group/institute in R&D of intelligent information agents.
   Available I2A prototypes for demonstration at the meeting.

(3) a short (update of the) report about your group
    (in plain text, pdf or postscript).

    You may check the following URL for reports on european R&D
	in intelligent information agents carried out by entities
	in the SIG:
    
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~klusch/sig/reports.html

by email (to klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) or mail (see address 
below).

You may find more information on the I2A SIG's activities at:

        http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/i2aActiv.html


Date & Location
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The meeting will be held at APRIL 21 & 22, 1999, and will be
co-located with the PAAM-99 conference in LONDON, UK.  More detailed
info will be available soon.  The I2A SIG meeting is co-located with
meetings of other SIGs of AgentLink.

On April 23rd will be a plenary meeting of the AgentLink network,
which Everyone attending the SIG meeting is invited to attend. The
plenary day will consist of


Travel Funding
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AgentLink (AL) will fund a *maximum* of one person from each AL member
node to attend *each* SIG meeting, provided that these people are
*actively participating* (e.g. by presenting something). AL will allow
up to 2 people from each AL node to attend each SIG meeting (i.e., if
2 people attend a single SIG meeting, then at most one will be
funded.) Note that travel support will *only* be available to
AgentLink members.

Please indicate your need to be funded not later than January 15, 1999
by email (to klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) or mail (see address
below).

You will be notified on acceptance or rejection of your request for
travel support by email on February 10, 1999.


About AgentLink
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I2A SIG is part of AgentLink: Europe's ESPRIT funded Network of 
Excellence
for agent-based computing. For further information about AgentLink 
and its
activities (including how to join), see http://www.AgentLink.org/.


Contact
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For all inquiries concerning the I2A SIG/meeting please contact:

Matthias Klusch
Technical University of Chemnitz
Strasse der Nationen 62
09111 Chemnitz, Germany.
email: klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
phone: +49-371-531-1511
fax: +49-371-531-1530

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