UMBC AgentNews newsletter v5 n1                Sunday Jan 23, 2000

The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).

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This is the first issue of the revived AgentNews newsletter. Note that
the format is somewhat different, but the intent will be the same --
to include the new items added to the UMBC AgentWeb
(http://agents.umbc.edu) in the recent past.  The format has changed
in order to make it easier to generate.  In the spirit of "less is
more" we're experimenting with a nearly automatic way to generate the
newsletter directly from the site using Jose Vidals's bk2site tool
(http://bk2site.sourceforge.net/).  For now, it will be an "plain
ascii" newsletter, although we will probably revise the HTML version
as soon as we get the urge to do some script hacking.  Although we're
giving up some things (e.g., organizing the items by topic, inclusion
of attractive images, further editing of the blurbs, etc.) what we'll
gain is a newsletter that can be maintained.

Issues of AgentNews will be generated and sent on Sunday evenings and
will include the past seven days of new items.  We *may* end up doing
some editing to remove some of the less interesting items and to add a
note from the editor (like this one).  For this first issue in the new
format we're going back more than seven days, but we've also edited
out lots of the items, leaving only a *sample* of the items added
recently.  We apologize for its length and expect that future issues
will be shorter.


LATEST NEWS ITEMS
 
XML'99 (Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast) -- Coverage of GCA's XML'99 conference
in Philadelphia, PA, December 5-9, 1999. Includes keynotes, analyst
panels, web standards update briefing and select conference sessions.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=65>

Japan Robot for Consumers Debuts -- Tmsuk IV is a four foot, 220 pound
robot that gives backrubs and more.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.qbiz.ne.jp/tmsuk/>

agentWeb mentioned in Science's NetWatch -- AgentWeb was mentioned in
the NetWatch column of the January 14th issue of Science
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol287/issue5451/netwatch.shtml>

Thinking Machines -- A CNET Special Report on "How Artificial
Intelligence is Reshaping Technology".
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1525341.html?tag=st.cn.1.p>

t-mail translation service -- t-mail.com is offering a free
email-based natural language translations service among English,
French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.t-mail.com/>

ESAW00 -- First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the
Agents' World, August 21, 2000 - Berlin, held in conjunction with ECAI
2000, 14th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00/>

HoloMAS'2000 -- Workshop on Industrial Applications of Holonic and
Multi-Agent Systems in conjunction with the 11th International
Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2000)
Greenwich, London; 6-8 September, 2000 .  Paperse due Jan 23, 2000.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS2000/>

The "stacheldraht" distributed denial of service attack tool --
Stacheldraht ( "barbed wire") tool uses mobile agent like technology
to do a coordinated denial of service attack. (Nelson Minar)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/stacheldraht.analysis>

Classification for User Support and Learning -- The American Society
for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification
Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 11th ASIS
Classification Research Workshop to be held at the 63rd Annual Meeting
of ASIS, November 13-16, 2000 in Chicago, IL.  The workshop will be
held on Sunday, November 12, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  They
seek submissions from all disciplines concerned with classification
and ontologies.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr/>

Interview with lenat (Austin Chronicle, 12/99) -- An interview with
Cycorp's Doug Lenat which appeared in the December 19, 1999 Austin
Chronicle.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.e-cyc.com/auschron1e.html>

ICMAS-00 Trading Agent Competition -- ICMAS-00 Trading Agent
Competition, 8 July 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. to be held in
conjunction with a special purpose workshop at the Fourth
International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-00), in Boston
in July 2000.  This event is designed to spur research on common
problems, promote definitions of benchmarks and standard problem
descriptions, and showcase current technologies. The competition will
pit software agents--developed by research groups, students, and
others from all over the world--against each other in a challenging
market game.  The software agents will represent travel coordinators
whose goal is to arrange travel packages for clients.  These travel
packages consist of flights, hotel rooms, and tickets to entertainment
events, all of which the agents buy (and, in the case of event
tickets, sell) in electronic auctions.  The market game has been
specially designed to present agents with difficult decision problems
and admit a wide variety of potential bidding strategies.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://tac.eecs.umich.edu/>

AOIS-2000 -- 2nd International Bi-Conference Workshop on
Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2000), 5-6 June 2000,
Stockholm (Sweden) at CAiSE*00 30 July 2000, Austin (Texas, USA) at
AAAI-2000 <http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.AOIS.org>

Commerce One Acquires Mergent -- Commerce One, a provider of
business-to-business e-commerce applications, said it agreed to
acquire Mountain View, Calif.-based Mergent Systems, a developer of
distributed product information management systems for online
marketplaces. Commerce One will exchange $10 million in cash and
approximately 870,000 shares, worth about $190 million. Mergent will
form the basis of a new Commerce One business unit providing
applications and services for product information management. Mergent
CEO Amos Barzilay will head the new unit. Mergent founder and CTO
Michael Genesereth will also join Commerce One. Mergent is backed by
Media Technology Ventures and individuals.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mergent.com>

MSNBC: clothing meets agents -- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 — If you think
your attire is smart now, just wait till it starts reading your e-mail
out loud in the supermarket in French — and your jacket turns
redder and redder, reflecting your impatience over waiting in line. In
the new millennium, the term “power suit” will take on a new,
more literal meaning.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.msnbc.com/news/351349.asp>

ABCNEWS.com : "Intelligent Agents" Make a Comeback -- "But companies
from start-ups to heavyweights are still investing heavily in agents,
and the results may yet change the way people and computers relate to
one another."
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_intagents991028.html>

First NASA Workshop on -- The first Goddard Workshop on Formal
Approaches to Agent-Based Systems will be held 6th-7th April 2000 at
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.  Papers and
expressions of interest should be submitted by January 7th.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://fmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.htm>

FIPA London meeting -- The Sixteenth FIPA meeting will be held in
London from 24 to 28 January 2000 at the Marlborough Hotel.
Reservervation requests should be made by January 7th.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fipa.org/chronicle/london/usmtgntc.htm>


SAMPLING OF LATEST DIRECTORY ADDITIONS


Is There an Intelligent Agent in Your Future? -- Jim Hendler, Is There
an Intelligent Agent in Your Future?, Naure, March 11, 1999.  A short
article on agent technology for a general scientific audience.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/agents/agents.html>

Mobile Agents and Security -- Mobile Agents and Security (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, 1419), Giovanni Vigna (Editor), 257 pages
(August 1998) Springer Verlag; ISBN: 3540647929.  A collection of
thirteen papers.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540647929/qid%3D948662346/102-6438035-8551229>

The START NL QA System -- The START server answers English questions
related to information from the MIT AI Laboratory and from the World
Wide Web. The Server is based on the START natural language system
developed by Boris Katz and his associates in the Infolab Group. START
has been available to World Wide Web users since December 1993.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/start.html>

AgentLink Agent Teaching Database -- Links to agent-related courses
and programs in Europe.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.agentlink.org/>

AgentLink Conferences and workshops calendar -- A comprehensive list
of conferences and workshops related to agent technology.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.agentlink.org/>

Calculi for Mobile Processes -- Resouce page maintained by Uwe
Nestmann.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.auc.dk/mobility/>

Communicating and Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus -- Communicating and
Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus, Robin Milner, 176 pages, March 1,
1999, Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0521643201. Robin Milner
introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its
central position in computing. Everything is introduced by means of
examples, such as mobile phones, job schedulers or vending machines,
but the aim of the book is to develop a theory, the -calculus, in
which these things can be treated rigorously
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521643201/instituteforglo7>

ACE News Notes -- "ACE news notes are anticipated about once every two
months during the regular academic year (September-May) but may be
distributed more or less often as warranted by the amount of
news. Please contact Leigh Tesfatsion (tesfatsi@iastate.edu) if you
wish to be added or removed from this news list, or if you have any
news items you wish to have included in the next ACE news notes."
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/acepast.htm>

Cognitive Agent Software Toolkits -- Chi Systems has developed some
software products useful for building interface agents.  "iGEN is a
new tool for a new type of software.  Cognitive agents are autonomous
software components which are able to identify problems of a specific
type, solve them in a human-like manner, and implement the
solutions. These agents are able to execute independently, and to
manipulate other software systems and tools (e.g., query databases,
send messages) as needed to solve the problem."
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.chiinc.com/ginahome.shtml>

"Game Theory: An Introductory Sketch" -- Roger A. McCain (Drexel
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) maintains a web site titled
"Game Theory: An Introductory Sketch" which provides a readable
elementary exposition of basic game theory principles for
non-specialists.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/eco/game/game.html>

Neuromedia, Inc. -- NEUROMEDIA provides scalable Internet solutions
that enable the creation and deployment of Virtual Representatives --
vReps -- virtual online sales and customer service representatives
that dynamically interact with customers via real-time, natural
language dialog for eCommerce and customer support websites.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.neuromedia.com/>

Cora Research Papers: Agents -- Cora is a special-purpose search
engine covering computer science research papers. It allows keyword
searches over the partial text of Postscript-formatted papers it has
found by spidering the Web. This is their page on agents.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cora.justresearch.com/Artificial_Intelligence/Agents/index.html>

JAM -- JAM is a java-based agent framework with an underlying BDI
achitecture developed by Marcus Huber and available for non-commercial
use.  See , M. Huber, Agents'99 for details.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://members.home.net/marcush/IRS/irs.html>

MASH - Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper -- "MASH is an easy-to-use,
time-saving program that separates the code from the content, allowing
you to compose and playback complex and entertaining Microsoft Agent
presentations - with no programming necessary!"
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.bellcraft.com/mash/>

Intelligent Agents, Markets and Competition -- Kees Jonkheer,
Intelligent Agents, Markets and Competition: Consumers' Interests and
Functionality of Destination Sites, FirstMonday, Vol.  4 No. 6 - June
7th. 1999.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/jonkheer/index.html>

Automatic Text Categorization Bibliography -- A searachable bibtex
bibliography on Automatic Text Categorization.  Its emphasis is on the
induction of automatic text classifiers by machine learning
techniques, and contains references on theoretical, experimental, and
applicative work on ATC. It contains more than 160 entries, 75% of
which have pointers to online .ps copies of the papers.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/automated.text.categorization.html>

AI for Web Search -- AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for
Web Search, July 30, 2000, Austin, TX Paper submission deadline: 10
March 2000
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html>

Agents working together -- A short article by Don Barker written for
PC AI on agent communication and cooperation.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.botspot.com/pcai/article11.htm>

Kinetoscope -- Kinetoscope's products include VIA (Versitile
Intelligent Agents) -- a toolkit for building agents in Java.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://via.kinetoscope.com/>

Capability Description Language -- Using Expressive and Flexible
Action Representations to Reason about Capabilities for Intelligent
Agent Cooperation, Gerhard Wickler, University of Edinburgh.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/cdl/index.html>

NetPeople -- "Netpeople is the innovative proprietary technology
developed by iNAGO that brings life to your website. ... enables the
NetPeople agents on a website to be more fully intelligent and
interactive than any other commercial product on the Internet today.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://netpeople.inago.com/SOULBrowser/SOUL.html>

Klones, Big Science Chatterbots are Life Like Intelligent Agents --
"Big Science Company is the developer of Klone ServerTM, the first
application server that understands plain English. Like other
application servers, Klone Server is middleware that extends back
office data to web clients. Instead of generating HTML forms and
reports, Klone Server creates emotionally-intelligent, graphical
characters. These characters, called KlonesTM, converse with web users
in plain English and function as knowledge workers."
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.bigscience.com/>

Virtual Personalities, Inc. -- "We are creating highly intelligent
user interfaces featuring verbally interactive characters called
Verbots(tm). These likable, helpful agents make deep communication
with technology a breeze, for beginners as well as experts. "
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.vperson.com/>

Jackal -- Jackal, a Java-based communications infrastructure for
multi-agent systems developed at UMBC is available for download from
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com) (under 'Technologies').  Jackal
supports the exchange of KQML messages (to be extended to include FIPA
ACL) among agents, organized within 'conversations'.  It presents a
flexible, blackboard-like interface to the agent.  Other features
include an interface for user-defined, plug-n-play modules for
different network protocols, and integrated support for a power naming
and addressing protocol.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://jackal.cs.umbc.edu/>

Practical Knowledge Representation for the Web -- Frank van Harmelen
and Dieter Fensel, IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information
Integration,
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/IJCAI99-III.html>

The Semantic Web -- (Tim Berners-Lee's thoughts on the future of the
Web):
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html>

Nimble.com -- Nible.com is focused on using XML for ecommerce, but the
lead technologists are two well known academic agents researchers, so
watch for interesting developments.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nimble.com/team.html>

HoloMAS'2000 -- Workshop on Industrial Applications of Holonic and
Multi-Agent Systems in conjunction with the 11th International
Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2000)
Greenwich, London; 6-8 September, 2000 .  Paperse due Jan 23, 2000.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS2000/>

Cborg mobile MAS -- Cborg is a mobile MAS featuring open semantics,
strong migration, concurrency primitives and location transparent
routing !  Binaries are available for macintosh, palmos, windows,
linux, solaris. On request you can have the source to add your own
modifications, there is a manual available and direct online support
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://progwww.vub.ac.be/pools/cborg/>

TuCSoN: a Coordination Model for Internet Agents -- TuCSoN is a model
for the coordination of Internet agents. TuCSoN exploits a notion of
local tuple-based interaction space, called tuple centre, which is a
tuple space enhanced with the notion of behaviour specification. By
programming its behaviour in response to communication events, a tuple
centre can embody coordination laws.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.lia.deis.unibo.it/Research/TuCSoN/>

Intelligenesis -- Intelligenisis is developing technology for
knowledge discovery and management.  It's product, Webmind, is
described as " a Java-based software system that evolves its own
"digital intuition," which it uses to pose and answer questions. It
deals with textual and numerical information on an equal footing,
freely making generalizations that span different types of data."
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.intelligenesis.net/>

e-Cyc: A Division of Cycorp -- e-Cyc uses Cyc® technology to
provide custom solutions for Internet and intranet sites in the areas
of concept-based indexing and retrieval, intelligent brokering of
goods and services, knowledge navigation, question-answering and more.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.e-cyc.com/>

RealizingConsciousnessInSoftwareAgents.pdf -- Myles Bogner, Realizing
consciousness in software agents.  University of Memphis, September
1999, ...  This dissertation describes in depth the "Conscious" Agent
framework (ConAg), developed by this author.  ConAg is a reusable
software framework that carefully follows software reuse
methodology. ConAg provides a solid foundation for building
"conscious" software agents, and in particular, "consciousness" within
these agents. A description of two agents built with ConAg are
described, as well as the framework's structure. It is beyond this
work's scope to address whether or not agents built with ConAg are
sentient. ...
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.rhodesalumni.org/~myles/memphis/RealizingConsciousnessInSoftwareAgents.pdf>

Mergent.com -- "If you are building an electronic marketplace, Mergent
Systems can help you solve the problems of building, aggregating, and
managing catalogs. Our unique applications and patented technology
help you create useful, compelling, and rewarding experiences for both
your suppliers and your buyers - making your e-commerce site
successful. "
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mergent.com>

AMOC 2000 -- AMOC 2000 Asian International Mobile Computing Conference
Penang Parkroyal Resort, Penang, Malaysia 1 - 3 November, 2000.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fsktm.um.edu.my/amoc/>

COORDINATION 2000 -- Fourth International Conference on Coordination
Models and Languages, Limassol, Cyprus 11-13 September 2000. Papers
due 14 Apr 2000.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-gloc.di.fct.unl.pt/coord00/>

Project Impulse (MIT Media Lab) -- "n this research project we explore
a scenario in which e-commerce meets "brick-and-mortar" commerce
through a system of buying and selling agents (representing individual
consumers and retailers respectively) that engage in multi-parameter
negotiation and run on wireless mobile devices. Agents representing
well-informed consumers and participating merchants meet one to one on
equal footing to seek agreement on the terms of a consumer purchase."
(MIT Media Lab)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/projects/impulse/>

UMBC DNA project -- The Dynamic Negotiating Agents project is
exploring how software agents, mobile hosts, mobile users and wireless
communication will fit together.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.csee.umbc.edu/dna/>

Workshop on Communicating Agents, -- Communicating Agents Workshop of
the GLDV special interest group on generation and parsing in
morphology, syntax and semantics, IKP, University of Bonn, Feb 15,
2000.  Abstracts due january 10, 2000.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.gldv.org/Veranstaltungen/WS_Feb00/>

Zeus -- British Telecommunications Labs. Zeus is a 'collaborative'
agent building environment and component library written in Java. Each
ZEUS agent consists of a definition layer, an organisational layer and
a co-ordination layer. The definition layer represents the agent's
reasoning and learning abilities, its goals, resources, skills,
beliefs, preferences, etc. The organization layer describes the
agent's relationships with other agents. The co-ordination layer
describes the co-ordination and negotiation techniques the agent
possesses. Communication protocols are built on top of the
co-ordination layer and implement inter-agent communication. Beneath
the definition layer is the API.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/agents/research/collaborative.htm>

MultiAgent Systems Tool (MAST) -- Intelligent Systems Group,
Department of Telematic Systems Engineering Technical University of
Madrid MultiAgent Systems Tool is a general purpose distributed
framework for the cooperation of multiple heterogeneous agents. The
MAST architecture consists of two basic entities: the agents and the
network through which they interact.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.gsi.dit.upm.es/~mast/>

Mobiware Middleware Toolkit -- Mobiware is a software-intensive
adaptive mobile networking environment based on distributed object
technology. Built on CORBA and Java distributed object technology, it
runs on mobile devices, wireless access points and mobile-capable
switch/routers providing a set of open programmable interfaces and
algorithms for adaptive mobile networking.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://comet.columbia.edu/mobiware/>

LALO -- LALO is a programming environment which permits the
development of multiagent systems. The architecture is extensible and
allows creating multiagent systems including reactive agents and
deliberate agents. In addition, LALO permits the definition of agents
using this new programming paradigm. The inter-agent communication
language used is KQML ("Knowledge Query and Manipulation
Language"). LALO is an Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) language and a
framework for developing intelligent multiagents systems. A program
written in LALO is translated into C++ source code, and then compiled
with a C++ compiler.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.CRIM.CA/sbc/english/lalo/>

JATLiteBean Site -- University of Otago JATLiteBean takes the
KQML-speaking functionality of JATLite and wraps it into a
JavaBean. JATLiteBean provides an easier-to-use interface to JATLite
features including KQML message parsing, receiving and sending. It
provides an extensible architecture for message handling and agent
"thread of control" management. It also supports automatic advertising
of agent capabilities to facilitator agents. Also included is a
generic configuration file parser and KQML syntax checker.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/emanuela/JATLiteBean/>

Gypsy -- Technical University of Vienna. The Gypsy Project utilizes
Java for the implementation of a flexible environment for
experimenting with mobile agent programming. It is intended for
application in Internet information retrieval, Internet commerce,
mobile computing, and networks network management.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/lux/Gypsy/>

UMPRS Agent -- UMPRS is a Belief-Desire-Intention agent architecture
based upon the Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) of Georgeff, Ingrand,
Rao, Lansky, and others. Unlike many "agents" available today which
are useful in very restricted domains, UMPRS is applicable to nearly
any application domain. It supports top-down, goal-based reasoning and
selects goals and plans based on maximal priority. Source code and
documentation are available for download at the UMPRS website.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://members.home.net/marcush/IRS>

LiveAgent - Web Automation Software -- AgentSoft's Java-based
LiveAgent Pro provides an easy to use, powerful, flexible, and
extensible way to automate Web activity. LiveAgent Pro is used to
create Internet/Intranet scripts using a recording environment (like a
high-level macro recorder or automated testing tool). A developer
performs a sequence of Web operations in his/her browser, and those
actions are automatically saved by LiveAgent Pro as a script (or
"agent"). The completed script can then be run by the user or
scheduled for automatic launching.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.agentsoft.com/>

Bizbots -- BusinessBots has developed the Java Agent-enabled
Marketplace (JAM), a powerful, scalable, and highly configurable
universal server for enabling real-time marketplaces over the
Internet.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.bizbots.com/>

Agent Bibliography -- From theIntelligent Agent Laboratory is based at
the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the
University of Melbourne, Australia.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/groups/ai/agents/bib.html>

WinPROLOG Communication Libraries -- An AGENT Library for WIN-PROLOG
by Z. Meltem ISMIK (melly@lpa.co.uk) allowing you to write Prolog
agents which communicate using the agent communication language of
your choice (e.g. one of the examples use straightforward Prolog
tuples, the other uses KQML).  The KQML example features a KQML
speaking facilitator and a generic client agent which communicates
with this facilitator.
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~ismikzm/sbuindex.html>

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