The agent community on the other hand can find Grid environments useful testbeds to deploy agents on a large scale. Often, within the multi-agent community, agents are restricted to a few 10s of agents -- and often agents undertake identical tasks. To support Grid computing, agents can offer different roles, be organised into regional or national dynamic "groups", and be able to migrate between groups to support load balancing. Therefore agents could play an important role in Grid Computing, and Grid Computing can offer useful testbeds for investigating Agent services. The Grid is not only a low level infrastructure for supporting computation, but can also facilitate and enable information and knowledge sharing at the higher semantic levels, to support knowledge integration and dissemination. The aim of this workshop is to bring together both infrastructure developers, and applications developers, who are working towards the vision of an Information Grid using agent technologies. The workshop will also aim to inspire and encourage collaboration between these two communities.

Workshop Chairs

Omer F. Rana, Department of Computer Science and Welsh E-Science/Grid Centre 5 The Parade, Cardiff University, UK	Sven Graupner, Internet and Computing Platforms Research Center Hewlett Packard Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1182, Palo Alto, CA 94304, US

Authors are encouraged to: Submit a full paper (max: 6--8 pages in length, formatted to the IEEE format) Submit a research statement (max: 2 pages in length, formatted to the IEEE format) Use a minimum of 10pt font, and printable on A4 paper. IEEE guidelines can be found here. Please email your papers to o.f.rana@@cs.cf.ac.uk, which is the preferred method for submission. You may also send paper copies to: Omer F. Rana, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK Full papers (category (a)) will be reviewed by the programme committee for relevance, clarity and the novelty of results. If accepted, full papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society. Authors may purchase two additional pages. Short papers (category (b)) will be published in a seperate section. This is to encourage work that is not yet advanced enough for a full paper. We also encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of existing work, and application examplers, which demonstrate how Grid technology could be effectively deployed. We also welcome practical work which applies Grid technology in novel and interesting ways.