AgentLinkThe IST Network of Excellence

for Agent-Based Computing

Michael LuckAgentLink Director

What are “Agents”?

• Autonomous software components• Capable of acting independently to achieve

design objectives• Capable of cooperating with other agents to

achieve design objectives• Ideally suited to modern computing in

dynamic and open environments

What is AgentLink?

• Open network for agent-based computing.• Second phase started in Autumn 2000.• Intended to give European industry a head

start in a crucial new area of IT.• A community of member organisations from

commerce, industry and research• Free to join!

Industry Actions

• Promote awareness & take-up of agents• Facilitate technology transfer• Support & promote standards

– FIPA– OMG Working Group

• Industrial meetings• Agent Software Database• Agent Technology Roadmap

Research Coordination

• Promote academic awareness & take-up of agent research

• Foster industrially relevant agent research• Promote new collaborations for technology

transfer• Members Profiles• Sponsored events

Education & Training

• Foster agent-related R&D skills• Disseminate

– Agent-related courses

• European Agent Systems Summer School– Most successful agent training event– Courses by world leaders– Bologna, Italy, 8-12 July 2002– Details at www.agentlink.org

Special Interest Groups

Free access to leading edge research and researchers

• Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce• Agent-Based Social Simulation• Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent

Systems• Intelligent Information Agents• Intelligent and Mobile Agents for Telecoms and the

Internet• Agents that Learn Adapt and Discover

Information Infrastructure

• Provide a communication & management infrastructure for AgentLink

• Dedicated agent portal – www.AgentLink.org

• AgentLink News magazine• Mailing lists• General coordination

The Agent Portalwww.AgentLink.org

Newsletter

How many members do you have?

• 151 full members • Twenty-two countries• Industrial giants• Technology providers• User organisations

Industrial Members

Industrial Members

Can I Join?

• AgentLink is open to:– all European industry– all European academic sites that demonstrate

excellence in agent research

• Membership is free!

To Find Out More…

Dr Michael Luck (AgentLink Director) Department of Electronics and Computer Science

University of Southampton

Highfield

Southampton SO17 1BJ

United Kingdomwww.AgentLink.org

coordinator@AgentLink.org