Specialist Groups

Two types of SGs are created:

``semantics'' SGs

, looking at the integration of several of ``facets''. They should provide a tutorial summary of the state of the art and a proposal for integrating their facets.

• SG1: Defeasibility and agent modalities (leader: PY Schobbens) This group will study the defeasible interaction of norms, knowledge, goals, capabilities, etc.
• SG2: Logics and models of action (leader: G Saake)
• SG3: Interaction in organizations (leader: A Jones)

``application'' SGs

should identify the main concepts required for application in their domain, and also provide some examples treated with some existing model of ``agent''.

• SG4: Software development process (leader: M Ryan)
• SG5: Diagnostic/Repair/reconfiguration/industrial control
  (leader: W Nejdl)

It has still to be decided whether an application group `` Business and legal applications'', distinct from the SG3, is needed.