Re: Welcome to the WebAgents CG!

Hello everyone, 

Nice to have this group setup and thanks to Andrei for keeping the momentum. 

I guess the next steps are nominating the chairs, round of introduction and discussing reports we target. 

All the best, 

Fabien Gandon, [ https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/ | Wimmics ] (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France) 
[ https://twitter.com/fabien_gandon | @fabien_gandon ] - [ http://fabien.info/ | http://fabien.info ] 

> De: "Andrei Ciortea" <andrei.ciortea@unisg.ch>
> À: public-webagents@w3.org
> Envoyé: Samedi 25 Mars 2023 19:42:48
> Objet: Welcome to the WebAgents CG!

> Dear all,

> We wish you a warm welcome to the Autonomous Agents on the Web Community Group (
> WebAgents CG).

> This CG aims to investigate the design of a new class of Web-based Multi-Agent
> Systems (MAS) that:

> - inherit the architectural properties of the Web (Internet-scalability,
> evolvability, simplicity, etc.),

> - preserve the properties of MAS (adaptability, openness, robustness, etc.), and

> - are human-centric (support transparency, usability, accountability, etc.).

> We are especially interested in the use of Linked Data and Semantic Web
> standards for weaving a hypermedia fabric that mediates uniform interaction
> among heterogeneous entities: people, artificial agents, devices, digital
> services, knowledge repositories, etc. — for which reason, we refer to this new
> class of Web-based MAS as Hypermedia MAS (hMAS).

> This CG is an initiative that started as a follow-up of two Dagstuhl Seminars:

> - Dagstuhl Seminar 21072 (Feb. 14-19, 2021): https://www.dagstuhl.de/21072

> - Dagstuhl Seminar 23081 (Feb. 19-24, 2023): https://www.dagstuhl.de/23081

> During these seminars, we've had plenty of exciting content and discussions —
> focusing on demonstrators to keep things grounded — and it seemed like a good
> moment to open up the conversation more broadly in a CG. A big round of thanks
> to Olivier Boissier, Pierre-Antoine Champin, Fabien Gandon, Simon Mayer, and
> Alessandro Ricci for helping to move things forward.

> Anyone interested in the topics is welcome to join and contribute. We are still
> waiting for more people to join the group, but we will start the introductions
> soon. We expect to ramp up the activity over the next month.

> Best wishes,

> Andrei