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

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

All

The agents charter is now being formulated, and there's a discussion about
whether it should be a research group or a working group.  If a working
group, it could be spawned by Semantic Grid.

There's also a suggestion of having a Semantic Grid workshop at a later
GGF themed on agents.

All of these suggestions seem to be in line with keeping these activities
together, as Carole underlined in her recent message.

Also, we are due to review the Semantic grid charter, which is another
opportunity to bring things together.

So I'll turn the question round - would anyone like to argue to keep
Semantic Grid and agents as very *distinct* activities at research group
level?

Thanks

-- Dave

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Carole Goble wrote:

> 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
> >
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> >
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