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

Hi Melvin,

Welcome — and thanks for sharing!

Best wishes,
Andrei


> On 28 Mar 2023, at 10:36, Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> wrote:
> 
> 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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