From: Dimitar Kazakov (dimitar.kazakov@ijs.si)
Date: Mon 14 Oct 2002 - 14:10:38 BST
Dear subscriber to the ALAD mailing list, I want to draw your attention to two initiatives of direct relevance to the entire ALAD SIG. 1. SYMPOSIUM ON ADAPTIVE AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS, http://www.aamas.net) All ALAD members are encouraged to submit to the AAMAS symposium, which is hoped to become the annual spring event of choice where our community would meet and discuss new ideas and work in progress. Conveniently placed between the regular winter ALAD SIG meetings and the major summer conferences, the AAMAS symposium will provide continuity to our discussions round the year, and beyond the AgentLink lifespan. The past two symposia in York and London proved a definite success, and attracted researchers from both sides of the Atlantic. A call for the submission of extended abstracts to the Third AAMAS Symposium will be issued in mid-November. 2. ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS Network of Excellence (ALAMAS NoE) While a submission for an AgentLinkIII Network to the 6th framework is being prepared, and its success would be great news to all ALAD members, in order to further strengthen the prominence of learning agent research on the European arena, many of us have put their effort into another proposal with a more focussed scope: ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (ALAMAS). The ALAMAS Expression of Interest (EoI) for a Network of Excellence (NoE) was submitted in June 2002: see http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kazakov/alamas/ for the text of the proposal. All ALAD members are encouraged to join ALAMAS and actively participate in the reshaping of the proposal in preparation for the 6th framework CfP. All three initiatives, ALAD SIG, the AAMAS symposia and the ALAMAS proposal spring from the same ideas, are closely co-ordinated, and designed to support each other. If you are a subscriber to both the ALAD and ALAMAS mailing lists, please use alad@cs.york.ac.uk to reach the largest possible audience; at present, alamas@cs.york.ac.uk includes only partners who have expressed active interest in the ALAMAS proposal. Should all ALAD SIG members join the ALAMAS proposal, the ALAMAS mailing list would become obsolete. Best greetings, Dimitar Kazakov ALAD associate co-ordinator ALAMAS proposal co-ordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Dimitar Kazakov Lecturer in Machine Learning Department of Computer Science University of York Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK ------------------------------ Currently on a sabbatical leave at the Department of Intelligent Systems, Institut Josef Stefan Ljubljana, Slovenia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~