Introduction: Melvin Carvalho [Was: Re: Introduction: Antoine Zimmermann]

Very nice, and welcome!
(to all) Just to keep things in order, please change the subject of the 
message when introducing yourselves.

--AZ


Le 28/03/2023 à 09:11, Melvin Carvalho a écrit :
> 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/ <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/ <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 <mailto: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/
>     <https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/>> (Inria,
>      > Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
>      > @fabien_gandon <https://twitter.com/fabien_gandon
>     <https://twitter.com/fabien_gandon>> - http://fabien.info
>     <http://fabien.info>
>      > <http://fabien.info <http://fabien.info>>
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      >
>      >     *De: *"Andrei Ciortea" <andrei.ciortea@unisg.ch
>     <mailto:andrei.ciortea@unisg.ch>>
>      >     *À: *public-webagents@w3.org <mailto: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 <https://www.dagstuhl.de/21072>
>      >
>      >     - Dagstuhl Seminar 23081 (Feb. 19-24, 2023):
>      > https://www.dagstuhl.de/23081 <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/ <http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/>
> 

-- 
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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