ESOA WG Meeting AgentCities ID2 Lisbon / 9th-10th September 2002Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo AgentCities ID2, Lisbon

2 TimeTable w Monday 9th: 14h-16h: Participant Introduction (5min) Brief Review of Related Projects and Liaisons (10min) Discussion on Mission Statement Document (30min) Discussion on Survey Document (30min) Discussion on test scenario specification, and test-beds (30min) Future Plans (15min) w Tuesday 10th: 14h-15h30 Discussion on Issues and Challenges Document (40min) Discussion on Recommendations Document (40min) Organisation of work (10min)

3 Related Projects and Liaisons w IST Projects IBROW IST Project (Chris) w AgentCities Mini-Projects European Competition Law Assistance (Chris) w Other Related Projects Self-organising maps in the AgentCities network (Soraya) Engineering SOA (Swiss funded project, Giovanna) w Technical Activities JADE Team (Chris) w Liaison AgentCities WG on emergency systems

4 Mission Statement Document w Goal: to describe framework, current techniques, methodologies, open issues related to SOAs. w Content ? w Structure ? w Who wants to contribute?

5 Survey Document w Goal: kinds of SOAs, their domains, advantages w Structure and Content (Anthony’s comments)

6 Test-Beds w “Test-beds to explore how self-organisation techniques may be tested in real world?” (Omer question) w What is necessary to build a test-bed for SO: verification, checking, analysis dependent on the application (Grid, AgentCities,P2P, ?) w Experimentation with simulations w Common Themes AgentCities - Grid/P2P w Self-organisation concepts applied to Grid/P2P/SensorNets w Mapping of self-organisation concepts to FIPA

7 ESOA WG Plans w Other liaisons to establish ? FIPA w WG Papers publication Survey (BIS, ?) w Organisation of a Workshop ? w Submission of an IST Project w Next Meeting (before ID3?)

8 Issues and Challenges Document w Goal: identification of technical problems with current available techniques w Who wants to be responsible for this document?

9 Recommendations Document w Goal: Recommendations for design, programming, and verification of SOAs test scenario specifications of SOAs to be implemented on AgentCities platforms w Test-beds? w Review of possible innovative techniques? w How to apply them to existing platforms? w Who wants to be responsible for this document?

10 Organisation of Work w … to be discussed … w Next Meeting (before ID3?)