OMG Agent WG

Monday, August 23, 1999 1300-1700 and Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1300-1700

• Review Agenda (10 minutes)
• FIPA Liaison (60 minutes)
• Liaison Report, Francis G. McCabe (Fujitsu) - McCabe is FIPA liaison.
• FIPA Architecture TC Update, Francis G. McCabe (Fujitsu)
• see FIPA architectural overview
• FIPA Agent UML (AUML), Jim Odell (20 minutes)
• Agent Technology Green Paper Status Report, Jim Odell (20 minutes)
• Agents Profile RFP discussion, Jim Odell (20 minutes)
• Upgrading WG to SIG? (20 minutes)
• Review Agent RFI Responses - 30 minutes each (start Monday continue Tuesday)
• FIPA RFI Response sent to agents@omg.org (see below), Leonardo Chiariglione, FIPA
• Characterizing the Agent Grid, ec/99-07-01: HTML, contact: Craig Thompson, OBJS
• Background:  Characterizing Computer-Related Grid Concepts
• Monad's Agent RFI Response, ec/99-07-02: PostScript, PDF, contact: Kimmo Raatikainen
• Climate Response to Agent RFI, ec/99-07-03: PostScript, PDF, contact: Kimmo Raatikainen
• Background:  ec/99-08-02: ZIP archive
• Architectural Evaluation of Agent-Based Systems in Manufacturing [late/vote to review]

ec/99-08-03: ASCII, HTML, Joint Response: Neil Christopher and Don Libes, NIST, Mario Barbacci, John Robert, and Steve Woods, SEI, Nenad Ivezic (contact) and Tom Potok, ORNL.
• Background:  position paper supporting submission.  ec/99-08-04: PostScript, PDF


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