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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">tl;dr:</div><div class="">For the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), we are</div><div class="">organising ATAC — The challenge to build agents that do things on Linked </div><div class="">Data: <a href="http://purl.org/atac/2021" class="">http://purl.org/atac/2021</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Looking forward to your submissions,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tobias Käfer, Andreas Harth, Andrei Ciortea, Victor Charpenay</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># All the Agents Challenge (ATAC) at ISWC 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Agents on the Web have been a part of the vision for the Semantic Web.</div><div class="">While it has been noted that the original Semantic Web vision has not</div><div class="">yet fully materialised, recent progress seems to indicate that we may</div><div class="">now be at a stage where:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* developments such as the Web of Things may unlock new practical use</div><div class="">cases for agents on the Web, and</div><div class="">* the substrate provided by recent Semantic Web technologies (e.g.,</div><div class="">Linked Data Platform, Linked Data Notifications, SoLiD PODs) may open</div><div class="">new perspectives on the integration of Semantic Web with agent technologies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This bridging of technologies and communities has also been the topic of</div><div class="">the Dagstuhl seminar “Autonomous Agents on the Web” held in Feburary</div><div class="">2021. Therefore, for the 20th edition of the ISWC conference and in</div><div class="">spirit of Jim Hendler’s op-ed that asked “Where are all the agents?”, we</div><div class="">want to pose the All-the-Agents-Challenge (ATAC) to the Semantic Web</div><div class="">community:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--> The challenge to build agents that do things on Linked Data <--</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">## Important Dates</div><div class="">Submission deadline: July 22, 2021</div><div class="">Notifications: August 27, 2021</div><div class="">Challenge presentations: October 24-28, 2021</div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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