Re: Introduction: Antoine Zimmermann

Thanks for starting this initiative

My name is Melvin Carvalho and I'm a grass roots developer (not an
academic).  However, I do chair the Read Write Web Community Group at the
W3C, where there was a popular thread about: All the Agents Challenge
(ATAC) 2021.  I also started the Solid Community group.

I've been interested in autonomous agents for some time and hope to work on
an open source project called aam (aim is to be like npm for agents)

https://aam.wtf/

It's largely just a stub now, but hopefully I can learn more about what you
guys are doing, and get up to speed.

I've focussed in recent years on helping develop some target platforms for
agent to run on, namely:
- Solid
- Fediverse
- Nostr ( new: https://nostr.com/ )

I think all offer different trade offs and are, or can be, relatively
friendly to agents.

I also would like to explore the idea of agents that can be long-lived, ie
can last for many years or decades.

Looking forward to learning!

po 27. 3. 2023 v 9:46 odesílatel Antoine Zimmermann <
antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> napsal:

> Hello,
>
>
> I'm Antoine. I am associate professor at École des mines de
> Saint-Étienne (EMSE) in Saint-Étienne, France. I do research in the
> Semantic Web, with a particular interest in the problems of exploiting
> multiple sources of information (in a broad sense) that exists on the
> Web, such as multiple ontologies, multiple datasets, multiple query
> endpoints, or multiple services.
>
> I took interest in multi-agent systems by collaborating with coworkers
> who are experts in the field, especially Olivier Boissier with whom I
> co-supervised Andrei Ciortea's thesis in which he built the idea of a
> social Web of Things that later broadened into hypermedia multi-agent
> systems.
>
> I'm also involved in the HyperAgents project (with both Olivier and
> Andrei, by the way), a Swiss-French collaboration that precisely aims at
> engineering MAS on the Web.
>
> I am quite excited to see what will come out of this group.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --AZ
>
> Le 27/03/2023 à 07:50, Fabien Gandon a écrit :
> > 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, Wimmics <https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/> (Inria,
> > Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
> > @fabien_gandon <https://twitter.com/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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Antoine Zimmermann
> École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
> 158 cours Fauriel
> CS 62362
> 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
> France
> Tél:+33(0)4 77 49 97 02
> http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/
>
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