Agentcities, AgentLink and Ontoweb Liaison meeting Systems

4-5 February, 2003, Barcelona, Spain

Provisional programme

February 4th (afternoon): Presentation of the networks activities, and of SIGs and Working Groups

Room A3203, Building A3, Campus Nord, UPC

 14.00  Welcome and introduction: Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena), Matthias Klusch (DFKI), and Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool)

 14.20  Agentcities: network presentation (15 mins) Steven Willmott (University of Catalunya)

            14.35 The Agentcities working groups: Matthias Klusch (DFKI) (15 mins)

            14.50  Ontology working group (10 mins): Luigi Ceccaroni (Fujitsu)

            15.00  Communication working group (10 mins): Steven Willmott (University of Catalunya) or Jonathan Dale (Fujitsu)

            15.10  Service Description and Composition working group (10 mins): Stanislav Ambroszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Science)

 15.20 AgentLink: network presentation (20 mins) Mike Luck (Soton)

            15.40  Intelligent Information Agents SIG (15 mins): Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena)

 15.55  Break 10 mins

 16.05  OntoWeb: network presentation (15 mins) Valentina Tamma (LivUni)

            16.30  Content standard (10-15 mins): Aldo Gangemi (CNR) TBC

            16.35  Ontology language standards (10-15 mins): Heiner Stuckenschmidt (VU Amsterdam)

            16.50  Ontology environment (10-15 mins): Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)

            17.05  Industrial applications (10-15 mins): Alain Leger (France Telecom) Andreas Persidis (Biovista)

            17.20  Language technology in ontology development and use (10-15 mins): Paul Buitelaar (DFKI)

 17.35  Break 10 mins

 17.45  Discussion items as from the presentations: identifications of inputs, outputs, similarities, etc. (1hour)

 18.45  wrap up

February 5th (morning): Discussion

Room A3204, Building A3, Campus Nord, UPC

 9.30  Summary of previous session: Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena), Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool)

 9.50  Discussion concerning inputs, outputs and burning issues as from the previous session on February 4th

 11.10  Break 15 mins

 11.25  Identification of possible joint initiatives across networks, aimed to match expertise and technology providers with perspective consumers and set the basis for further fruitful initiatives.

 12.30  wrap up and closing