1. The IEEE Computer Society FIPA Standards Committee (SC)
Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
James Odell, Acting Chair
Acting regional chairs:
-Europe: Stephan Poslan
-US: Renato Levy

2. Status
3 working groups set up and active, with 3 more recently established
General meeting scheduled for 23 April 2008 in Lisbon, co-located with the AAMAS conference.
41 paid members (up 15%), 67 participants
3 IEEE standards recommendations expected by mid 2009

3. Current Working & Study Groups
Agents and Web Services Interoperability Working Group
Human-Agent Communications Working Group
P2P Nomadic Agents Working Group Work plan completed. Draft specification available
Review of FIPA Specification Study Group

4. Newly-formed Working Groups
Agent and SOA Working Group (Joint activity with OMG) Expecting to recommend a standard by mid 2009
Agent and EDA Working Group (Joint activity with OMG) Expecting to recommend a standard by mid 2009
Agent Metamodel and Profile Working Group (Joint activity with OMG) Expecting to recommend a standard by mid 2009

5. Community Service
Two student grants awarded for Twelfth International Workshop CIA 2008 on Cooperative Information Agents
Sponsor for the Seventh International Conference on AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems)
Joint meetings between IEEE FIPA and OMG
Liaison discussion with OASIS under way