DM: Workshop at AA99: call for participation

[Omer F Rana]

Please do come to our discussion sessions at the `Agent based High
Performance Computing' workshop at AA99 if you are attending the 
conference. The programme is attached below.
 
 
                  Agent based High Performance Computing
           ``Problem Solving Applications and Practical Deployment''
 
                http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/agents99/


                                     at
                             Autonomous Agents99
                          Seattle, Washington, USA
                              May 1, 1999
  
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  9:15     Welcome and Introduction     Kate Stout, David Kotz, Omer 
Rana,
                                                   David Walker
  
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                  Session 1:                          Chair:
               Deploying Agents                     Kate Stout

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                                           Craig Thompson, Tom Bannon,
  9:30      Agents for the Masses        Paul Pazandak, and Venu 
Vasudevan
                                          Object Services and 
Consulting,
                                                       Inc.

  
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                                                     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

  
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 10:30              Break

  
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         Robustness and Scalability in
                 Large Agent
 11:00        System Deployment:                    Amy Unruh
             Lessons Learned from                    MCC, USA
                  InfoSleuth

  
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                  Session 2:
             Agents in Distributed                   Chairs:
                  Computing                  David Kotz and Omer Rana

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                                        R Ghanea-Hercock, J. C. 
Collis and
 11:30   Heterogeneous Mobile Agents               D. T. Ndumu
          for Distributed Processing
                                               BT Laboratories, UK

  
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                                        C. Muthukrishnan and Suresh 
T. B.
 12:00     A Multi-Agent Approach to      Indian Institute of 
Technology,
            Distributed Computing
                                                  Madras, India

  
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 12:30              Lunch

  
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               Panel Session A:
 13:30       "Real World issues in      Led by Kate Stout, Sun 
Microsystems
             implementing agents"

  
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                                        A. Bivens, L. Gao, M. Hulber 
and B.
 14:00  Agent Based Network Monitoring              Szymanski
                                         Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute,
                                                       USA

  
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                  Session 3:                          Chair:
                 Applications                      David Walker

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             Agent Middleware for                   Shirun Ho
 14:30            Scientific            Central Research Lab, Hitachi 
Ltd,
          Heterogeneous Simulations                   Japan

  
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         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

  
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 15:30              Break

  
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                                                 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

  
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                                              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

  
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 18:00         End of Workshop

  
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