[sem-grd] Agents and the Grid?

[David De Roure <dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Some GGF business.

There will be a discussion about GGF area reorganisation at a 
forthcoming GGF Steering Group meeting (at SC2004).

In fact this doesn't affect the Semantic Grid Research Group much.  
We're currently in the architecture area, we could well have been 
in data, and it doesn't make a huge amount of difference anyway(!)

Meanwhile I have been advocating the introduction of an activity 
in the area of agents and the grid, and this has attracted some 
interest from parts of the agents community where there are some 
existing grid activities.  It needs a champion and I think this
may happen.

So, through reorganisation of the areas, this may will end up in 
an area alongside Semantic Grid (which may be a good thing when it 
comes to bridge-building).

Anyway, I'd welcome any comments from the community on this (e.g.
do you think GGF should have an agents and the grid activity?  Do
you think it should sit next to Semantic Grid?), so that I can go 
into the discussions able to represent your views.

Thanks

-- Dave