UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5 n4             Sun Feb 13 20:39:24 2000
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Beneath the Vortals -- Beneath the Vortals From webtechniques -- The
Lowdown on XML-Based B2B Standards, Michael Carroll -- At the core of
business exchange lies an agreed-upon methodology for exchanging
information, and it's not EDI but (maybe) CBL, cXML, and/or BizTalk.(2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/02/carroll/>

ACM and IEEE to hold joint Digital Libraries Conference -- (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cimic.rutgers.edu/ieee-acm-jcdl/>

AgentLink SIG Meetings -- Six of AgentLink's special interest groups
will meet in Saarbruecken, Germany, 20-23 Feb 2000. (2/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/sig-meetings.html>

PDKB on sourceforge -- PDKB (Public Domain Knowledge Base) has been
rehosted to SorceForge.  PDKB is a project to develop a public domain
ontology similar to Cyc. (2/10)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://lynx.eaze.net/~pdkb/web/>

Robot That Loves People -- Discover Magazine cover story on work at
MIT and elsewhere aimed at building robots which show human-like emotions.(2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.discover.com/oct_99/featrobot.html>

-- LATEST DIRECTORY ADDITIONS ----------------------------------------------

Jini Prolog Engine Service -- Jini Prolog Engine Service (JPES) was
developed by Harry Chen of UMBC as a Jini service that provides remote
Prolog engine services to Jini-enabled components in the network. (2/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://gentoo.cs.umbc.edu/jpes/>

Control of Agent Based Systems (DARPA) -- The Control of Agent Based
Systems (CoABS) program is sponsored by DARPA and AFRL and aims to
explore enabling technologies for the integration of architectures and
distributed systems of agents, objects, and legacy systems. (2/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://coabs.globalinfotek.com/>

JTP : Java Theorem Prover -- JTP is a full first-order logic model
elimination theorem prover in Java developed at Stanford by Gleb
Frank, based on Adam Farquhar's ATP. (2/10)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.stanford.edu/~gkfrank/jtp/>

CHR constraint solvers -- CHR (Constraint Handling Rules) is a Prolog
package designed to write constraint systems and has been used to
implement many different constraint systems. (2/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~webchr/>

Agents that buy and sell -- Maes, Guttman, and Moukas, Agents that buy
and sell: transforming commerce as we know it, CACM 1999. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://ecommerce.media.mit.edu/papers/cacm98.pdf>

Bibliography on Interface Agents -- A bibliography by Andy Wood of
136 references in which he most recent reference is from 1994. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/interactive.agents.html>

Intelligent Interface Agents (Lieberman) -- A 148 slide tutorial on
intelligent interface agents by Henry Lieberman of MIT from November
1998. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Teaching/Agents-Tutorial/>

BDI Agents in Practice -- Slides by Michael Georgeff (AAII) presented
at EPFL in 1999. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/lia/aipc/Applications/index.htm>

Uncertainty, Change, and Limited Resources -- Slides by Michael
Georgeff (AAII) presented at EPFL in 1999. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/lia/aipc/C_BDI/index.htm>

Foundation of BDI Systems (Georgeff) -- Slides by Michael Georgeff
(AAII) presented at EPFL in 1999. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/lia/aipc/T_B/index.htm>

Intelligent Agents (EPFL/Faltings) -- The main topic of this course
are technologies for implementing intelligent agents. Agents differ
from conventional (object-oriented) software technology in one or more
of the following 4 dimensions: (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings/advanced-ai.html>

Intelligent Agents (EPFL/Faltings) -- This year, we focus in
particular on self-interested agents and economic principles,
including auctions, market-based systems and negotiation. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings/intelligent-agents.html>

Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce -- Guttman, Robert; Maes,
Pattie; Moukas, Alexandros G.: Agents as Mediators in Electronic
Commerce. In: Schmid, Beat; Selz, Dorian; Sing, Regine: EM -
Electronic Transactions, EM - Electronic Markets, v8n11, 05/98. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mediamanagement.org/netacademy/publications.nsf/all_print_pk/801>

Tutorial: Mobile Software Agents for Dynamic Routing -- Tutorial:
Mobile Software Agents for Dynamic Routing, Mobile Computing and
Communications Review, v3n2, Kwin Kramer, Nelson Minar, Pattie Maes.
As portable digital devices of all kinds proliferate, wireless
networks that allow for flexible, timely and efficient data
communication become more and more important. Networks for mobile
devices are quite difficult to design for several reasons, chief among
them the problem of routing packets across networks characterized by
constantly changing topology. In this article we describe ways to
address the routing problem using a new technique for distributed
programming, mobile software agents. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://nelson.www.media.mit.edu/people/nelson/research/routes-sigmobile/>

TEAMCORE (ISI) -- ISI's project focused on "Rapidly Building Dynamic,
Robust Teams from Distributed, Heterogeneous Agents" headed by Milind
Tambe. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.isi.edu/teamcore/>

SIMSOC mailing list -- Simsoc distributes news about conferences,
workshops, and other information related to research on artificial
societies and social simulation. To join this free list, send a
message to mailto:mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing only the message:
join simsoc First_Name Family_Name (substituting your own name). (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/simsoc/>

Virtual fishtank -- Nearlife's virtual fishtank, which immerses
visitors in an undersea world where they can interact with simulated
cartoon-like fish and create fish of their own, has been rehosted to
Boston's Museum of Science and the St. Louis Science Center. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nearlife.com/main.html>

Nearlife -- Nearlife is a MIT Media Lab spinoff that creates virtual
environments that immerse people in near-to-life experiences by
combining cutting-edge technology with established entertainment
techniques. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nearlife.com/>

MalinWitness Face Verification and Recognition Engine -- A free demo
version of the MalinWitness Face Verification and Recognition Engine
is available to download. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.malinsystems.com/demo.html>

Inside SOAP (xml.com) -- A technical introduction to the SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol) protocol for remote procedure calls over the web. (2/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://xml.com/pub/2000/02/09/feature/index.html?wwwrrr_20000209.txt>

AnswerLogic, NLP for ecommerce -- Our engine combines powerful Natural
Language Processing, parsing technology and an extensive lexicography
database -- this, combined with knowledge-bases and various
glossaries, allows us to extract meanings and senses from documents,
questions and answers. (2/11)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.answerlogic.com/index_listnq.html>

Artificial Life (tutorial) -- Ray, T S, In press, Artificial Life, In:
``From Atoms to Mind'', Gilbert, Walter, and Glauco Tocchini
Valentini, [eds]. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
Treccani. Rome. (2/10)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/fatm/fatm.html>

SALT -- mobile agent framework on J2EE -- Rickard Öberg's MS thesis at
Linkoping developed a mobile agent framework designed for ecommerce
applications that is based on Java's J2EE server that provides
persistence, transactions and security. (2/10)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dreambean.com/download/rickard/saft.zip>

XRaptor MAS simulator -- XRaptor (Universität Mainz) is an environment
for simulation of scenarios in continuous virtual multi-agent worlds,
written in C++ for Unix and X-windows. (2/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.informatik.uni-mainz.de/~polani/XRaptor/XRaptor.html>

When will computer hardware match the human brain? -- Hans Moravec, J
of Transhumanism, 1998, v1 -- This paper describes how the performance
of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers
get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory
capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the
human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and
on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that
the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the
2020s. (2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm>

Robots Among Us (Moravec) -- Hans Moravec (CMU), Scientific American,
December 1999. (2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers/1999/SCIAM.robot.html>

Waseda Univ. Humanoid Project -- This project was established at
Waseda University in 1992 to develop an anthropomorphic robot named
"Humanoid" which will comprise sensing, recognition, expression and
motion sub-systems to enable robots and humans to build common mental
and physical spaces cooperatively. (2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.humanoid.rise.waseda.ac.jp/index.html>

The Eureka Robot Vac -- Autonomous agents meet dirt. (2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.eureka.com/whatsnew/robotvac.htm>

COS 570 -- Distributed AI/MAS (Maine/Turner) -- University of Maine
course on DAI, MAS and CDPS (Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving) (2/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cdps.umcs.maine.edu/COS570/>

Machine Learning over Natural Language Documents -- A tutorial by Tom
Mitchell (CMU) from 1997. (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/text-learning.ps>

Agents-While-You-Wait -- A tutorial by Van Parunak given at PAAM'99
including: lf-Organizing Behavior: Principles of self-organizing
systems, The What and Why of Agents: Definitions and Motivations, and
The How of Agents: Architectural alternatives and design decisions. (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.erim.org/~van/Presentations/presentations.htm>

User-Adaptive Systems: An Integrative Overview -- slides of the
tutorial User-Adaptive Systems: An Integrative Overview, which was
presented by Anthony Jameson (University of Saarbrücken) at UM99, the
Seventh International Conference on User Modeling, on June 20th, 1999,
in Banff, Canada. (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~jameson/um99-tutorial-index.html>

What IS CORBA? -- What is CORBA? by the Object Management Group (OMG)
presents the basic concepts of CORBA in a short statement. (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.omg.org/corba/whatiscorba.html>

A Brief Tutorial on CORBA -- This tutorial aims to give a short,
practical introduction to the The Object Management Group's Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) -- Kate Keahey (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/kksiazek/tuto.html>

Kaariboga -- Kaariboga is a free implementation of a Java framework
for mobile agents developed by Dirk Struve, Universität Bielefeld. (2/7)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/experi/d3/persons/struve/kaariboga/>

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