Edinburgh PEA Pod

Ripening PEA Pod Events

• "Processes and Agents"
  Date to be set. Early 2004 Proposed.
  Organiser: Stephen Gilmore and Colin Stirling

  Outline Agenda:

  • Stephen Gilmore (LFCS): PEPA nets: a stochastically-timed modelling language for modelling mobile agent systems.
  • Austin Tate (CISA/AIAI): : an inter-agent process interchange language.
  • Chris Walton (CISA): Agent Dialogue Protocols
  • ...

• "Agent/Web Service Choreography and Workflow"
  Date to be set.
  Organiser: Stephen Potter and friends

• "Planning in Robotics"
  Date to be set.
  Organisers: John Levine and friends

• "Planning in Tutoring Systems"
  Date to be set.
  Organisers: Johanna Moore, Helen Pain and friends

• "Starthclyde/Edinburgh Workshop"
  Date to be set.
  Organisers: Maria Fox, John Levine and friends

• "Rich Plan, Process and Activity Representations and Their Uses"
  12-Jan-2001, F13, AIAI, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh
  Organisers: Jessica Chen-Burger and Austin Tate
  Details here.

• "Natural Language Applications and Planning"
  27-Aug-2001, The Millennium Room, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
  Organisers: Jean Carletta and John Levine
  Details here.

• "Proof Planning and Mixed Initiative Planning"
  13-May-2002, 10:30am, F13, 80 South Bridge
  Organisers: Alan Smaill and Alan Bundy
  Details here.

• "Synthesis"
  11-Feb-2003, 11:00am to 4:00pm Room 3.03, Appleton Tower
  Organiser: Chris Mellish
  Details here.

This collaborative research programme is intended to provide an informal platform for Edinburgh researchers and their friends to exchange their research work and experiences in plan, process, event and activity representation, modelling, reasoning and experiences of using them in a range of applications. We plan to have a series of mini-workshops as a framework for encouraging the activities of the group, and to invite members to attend relevant seminars and discussions across the various Institutes with research interests in the area. The group will encourage joint work, joint student supervision, seek collaborative research opportunities, engage together in internal and external workshops and conferences, and encourage joint industrial links and consultancy opportunities.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following:

• State-of-the-Art in Plan, Process, Event and Activity Ontologies
• Emerging standards in Process Representation and Interchange
• Mathematical foundations of processes, process interaction and planning
• Temporal representations and reasoning
• Temporality and the linguistic embedding of process, event and activity descriptions
• PEA in Agents Systems
• PEA in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• PEA in Web Pages Synthesis
• PEA in Knowledge Management
• PEA in Workflow Systems
• PEA in Multi-Perspective Modelling
• PEA in Behavioural Robotics Systems
• PEA in Mathematical Reasoning and Proof Planning
• PEA in Tutoring Systems
• PEA in the synthesis of programs
• PEA in Grid Computing
• PEA in Natural Language Generation
• PEA in innovative real-world applications

• IRC in Advanced Knowledge Tecnologies (AKT) - one area being explored is task support and organisational process knowledge management.
• NIST Process Specification Language - cooperative work in which Edinburgh is already engaged on international process interchange standards.
• Semantic Web Services Language standards to move DAML-S/OWL-S to a W3C standard.
• OntoWeb - European Network of Excellence in Ontologies for the Web.
  Including it's Working Group on Web Content Standards for Process Descriptions

• Jean Carletta, HCRC/ICCS, jeanc @ inf.ed.ac.uk
• Jessica Chen-Burger, CISA/AIAI, jessicac @ inf.ed.ac.uk
• Johanna Moore, HCRC/ICCS, j.moore @ ed.ac.uk
• Austin Tate, CISA/AIAI, a.tate @ ed.ac.uk