1. Sascha Ossowski (URJC) WP9 www.agreement-technologies.org Dissemination & Exploitation

2. WP9: Characteristics Dissemination (DoW): Target groups: scientists, industry, general public Publications: Conferences, Workshops, Journals Presentations: MAS, SWS, Mobile Computing, Software Engineering Organisation of Events: Workshops, Seminars Web site: papers, presentations, course material, software Exploitation (DoW): Training: Courses, tutorials, seminars, PhD tutoring Technology transfer: follow-up contracts based on demonstrators Deliverables (DoW): D9.1.1 Dissemination and exploitation report. Yearly. D9.1.2 Book on ‘Agreement Technologies’. Month 60

3. WP9: Targeted Indicators No. publications per year (impact above average): 13 No. publications per year (impact below average): 5 No. publications in conferences/workshops:106 No. citations per year:205 Improvement of H-indices within 3 (5) years:5% (10%) Total no. of industry contracts (5 years):10 Total funding by industry contracts (5 years): 500 K€ Total no. of FP7 proposals (5 years): 13 Total no. of accepted FP7 projects (5 years): 4 No. of PhD Theses28 No. of Post-doc research contracts:5 No. of other projects (funded through bodies other than MEC) 19

4. WP9: Proposed COST Action Partners: 39 research teams 18 COST countries (Europe + Israel) 7 non-COST countries Full proposal submitted on Feb 1, 2008

5. WP9: Proposed COST Action 5 Working Groups: WG 1: Semantics (Integration of ontologies; Querying over distributed ontologies; Alignment with existing Semantic Web Standards) WG 2: Norms (Normative reasoning & negotiated flexibility; Usability of norms) WG 3: Organizations (Org. teamwork; Org. change; Design methodologies & tools) WG 4: Argumentation (Argumentation in negotiation; Strategies for bounded interaction) WG 5: Trust (Scalability; Semantics; Similarity; Balance between norms and trust) Mission: coordination of national efforts in the Agreement Technologies field “interdisciplinary” research, fundamental research, tools & applications focus on capacity building (early-stage researchers) and community building Action Coordination: URJC

6. WP9: Proposed COST Action Planned Activities: Activity A1: Working Group Workshops At least once a year, possible co-location of WG workshops Activity A2: Interdisciplinary Seminars Ad hoc, possible coordination with visits programme Activity A3: Coordination visits programme for senior researchers Up to one month: joint research/ funding proposal preparation Activity A4: Training visits programme for early-stage researchers One to six months: European PhD label/ jointly supervised PhDs

7. WP9: Proposed COST Action Planned Activities (2): Activity A5: Early-stage-researchers meetings Raise awareness of the necessities of PhD students and young PostDocs Activity A6: European Summer School in Agreement Technologies Coordination with related training events across Europe (EASSS, SSSW) will be sought Coordination with related training events across Europe (EASSS, SSSW) will be sought Activity A7: Agreement Technology Industrial Days Acquire a unified picture of the needs of industrial partners Acquire a unified picture of the needs of industrial partners Project the prospective benefits of AT to European Industry Project the prospective benefits of AT to European Industry Activity A8: Agreement Technologies Handbook Activity A9: Dissemination and Exploitation

8. Sascha Ossowski (URJC) WP9 www.agreement-technologies.org Dissemination & Exploitation