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Introduction to the workshop Agents in Bioinformatics: the reasons for a workshop now Paolo Romano, Biotechnology Department, National Cancer Research Institute, Italy

Opening Lecture The implementation of the Semantic Web Ian Horrocks, Computer Science Department, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

1st Session: The role of agents in the next Internet generation Introduction to agents architecture and systems, agents and multiagent platforms and successful application fields, Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Heterogeneous Software Agents, V. S. Subrahmanian, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, USA Bioinformatics applications and the web: today and tomorrow, Michele Finelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Posters' session (see the list of posters)

2nd Session Possible roles of agents in bioinformatics The role of agents in the setting up of an e-scientists workbench: MyGrid [PDF] Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Technology innovation in a service environment: HGMP-RC [PPT], Martin Bishop, Human Genome Mapping Project - Resource Center, United Kingdom Bio-Agents: an industrial perspective, Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA, Germany The Gene Ontology Project: Content for the Semantic Web [PPT], Midori Harris, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

3rd Session Case studies and significant experiences BioAgents [PDF], Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy From GeneWeaver to Agmial, Kevin Bryson, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France DECAF: A multi-agent system for automated genomic annotation [PPT], Keith Decker, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, USA Integration of heterogenous information resources [PPT], Steffen Möller, Proteom-Zentrum Rostock, Germany

Panel with all invited speakers A semantic web for bioinformatics

4th Session Oral communications A Knowledge Based Interface for Distributed Biological Databases [PDF], Paolo Bresciani, Paolo Fontana and Paolo Busetta, Istituto Agrario, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, and ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy. Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information, Padmini Srinivasan, Joyce Mitchell, Olivier Bodenreider, Gautam Pant, Fililppo Menczer, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA and University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA An Agent Architecture for Predicting Protein Secondary Structures [PDF] Giuliano Armano, Luciano Milanesi and A. Orro, University of Cagliari, Italy and ITB/CNR, Milano, Italy

Tutorial 1 Theoretical issues on Agents and Multi-agent Systems [PDF] Michael Luck, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Tutorial 2 Agents, Middleware, and the Grid Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK

Tutorial 3 Social Issues in the Construction of Agent Systems [PPT] Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy

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