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Re: [sem-grd] Agents and the Grid?

Dave

In my recent ECAI keynote on the Semantic Grid I had a section on Agents. This was coming from the point if view that the agent community and the knowledge rep. community were often the same.
If you have another activity with agents and the grid separate to the Semantic Grid RG, isn't that just dividing your already small base? I would welcome more active help and effort in FEWER RG andWG, not yet more. I would like to see the agents people involved in the SEM-GRD, scheduling, OGSA etc activities rather than in a ghetto.

Carole

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