AGENTCITIES.RTD
Testbed for Worldwide Agent Network: Research and Development
Description

Objective

The Agentcity vision is: An ambient proactive environment where heterogeneous autonomous and increasingly intelligent systems representing businesses, services and individuals are able to interact with each other in a peer to peer manner and enable flexible and dynamic composition of services. Knowledge, information and service sharing is effectively available to users and organisations. When new pertinent or innovative services are available they are immediately offered to the appropriate user. Services are automatically discovered and integrated at the right level of interaction. Ontology, security, reputation and trust services in the environment should further enrich the range of businesses and private interactions possible between agent peers. Furthermore, the environment should be open to allow new services and systems to be connected and integrated semantically by coming on-line automatically.

Objectives:
The primary objectives of this project are:
(a) to create a realistic, decentralised open environment which enables high level semantic interoperability between systems to support formation of novel, dynamic value constellations,
b) to build sufficient knowledge and understanding of dynamic open environments to enable transition to widespread usage in reliable commercial grade systems.

The project addresses dynamic value constellations in Four ways:
(1) Designing and deploying an open extensible network environment which can support heterogeneous service building blocks composable into new value added service
(2) The integration of business services into the environment to support rich interactions
(3) The bringing together agent level communication technologies to provide a unified framework for modelling dynamic application services and
(4) Demonstration points to show some of the depth and breadth of the world wide network of agent platforms and services.

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
ADETTI-IUL -- Partner 2001-07-01 2003-06-30
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Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Luís Botelho Professor Associado (com Agregação) (DCTI); Local Coordinator 2001-07-01 2003-06-30
António Luís Lopes Associate Researcher (IT-Iscte); Researcher 2001-07-01 2003-06-30
Rui Neto Marinheiro Professor Associado (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (IT-Iscte); Researcher 2001-07-01 2003-06-30
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Testbed for Worldwide Agent Network: Research and Development
2001-07-01
2003-06-30