All the Agents Challenge (ATAC) at ISWC 2021

Dear RWW list,

coincidentally before you started the discussion about Read-Write Web 
and agents, we proposed a challenge for the ISWC Conference about, well, 
agents and (Read-Write) Linked Data.

Below we quote parts from our website [1], which contains more details.

Looking forward to your submissions,

Tobias Käfer, Andreas Harth, Andrei Ciortea, Victor Charpenay

[1] http://purl.org/atac/2021


# All the Agents Challenge (ATAC) at ISWC 2021

Agents on the Web have been a part of the vision for the Semantic Web. 
While it has been noted that the original Semantic Web vision has not 
yet fully materialised, recent progress seems to indicate that we may 
now be at a stage where:

* developments such as the Web of Things may unlock new practical use 
cases for agents on the Web, and
* the substrate provided by recent Semantic Web technologies (e.g., 
Linked Data Platform, Linked Data Notifications, SoLiD PODs) may open 
new perspectives on the integration of Semantic Web with agent technologies.

This bridging of technologies and communities has also been the topic of 
the Dagstuhl seminar “Autonomous Agents on the Web” held in Feburary 
2021. Therefore, for the 20th edition of the ISWC conference and in 
spirit of Jim Hendler’s op-ed that asked “Where are all the agents?”, we 
want to pose the All-the-Agents-Challenge (ATAC) to the Semantic Web 
community:

-->  The challenge to build agents that do things on Linked Data  <--

## Environments
Submissions to the challenge can make use of one of those environments – 
or bring their own.

* The Autonomous Maze Environment Explorer Project (AMEE) provides an 
environment for agents that have to escape a maze by following 
hypermedia affordances. AMEE can simulate mazes of different sizes. We 
provide a RDF version of AMEE at 
https://github.com/all-agents-challenge/maze-server

* The Building on Linked Data (BOLD) environment is a description of a 
large real-world building (2 floors, over 250 rooms) with simulated 
occupancy and sunlight. Web agents can read occupancy and light level in 
rooms values through sensors. Agents can also actuate light switches 
located in the rooms. On this basis, participants to the challenge could 
implement several energy saving scenarios by interacting with the 
building’s lighting system. The building and all sensors and actuators 
are modeled using the Brick and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) 
ontologies. Participants can experiment with BOLD and program their 
agents against it by running the BOLD server from 
https://github.com/bold-benchmark/bold-server

* Your amazing agent environment. If you have a cool agent environment 
that provides Linked Data and maybe Web of Things Thing Descriptions, 
like your SoLiD POD, or your semantic IoT deployment, why not submit an 
agent that uses it?

## Important Dates
Submission deadline:            July 22, 2021
Notifications:                August 27, 2021
Challenge presentations:  October 24-28, 2021

Received on Friday, 21 May 2021 16:45:54 UTC