UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n6              Sun Feb 27 00:01:51 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).      
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                            well until they have been used, and have 
                            failed repeatedly, in real applications."  
                                                       -- Dave Parnas

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JADE in open source -- CSELT's JADE (Java Agent Development framework)
is now distributed under an open source (LGPL v.2) license -- Jade is
a software framework that simplifies the implementation of multiagent
systems through a middle-ware that claims to comply with FIPA
specifications and through a set of tools that support the debugging
and deployment phases. (2/25)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/
 
Robo-cat makes purrfect companion (BBC) -- Japanese company Omron.com
(http://www.omron.com) has introduced a robotic cat, similar to Aibo. (2/24)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_652000/652293.stm/

DAML could take search to a new level -- (By Jim Rapoza, PC Week Labs,
PC Week February 6, 2000) It may seem that the last thing the world
needs is another Web standard, but there is always room for an
intelligent addition. A new language known as DAML addresses an
important, unmet need—making Web sites understandable to programs
and non-traditional browsing devices.  DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency) Agent Markup Language is a step toward what Tim
Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, calls a "semantic Web"
where agents, search engines and other programs can read DAML mark up
to decipher meaning—rather than just content—on a Web site.  A
semantic Web also lets agents utilize all the data on all Web pages,
allowing it to gain knowledge from one site and apply it to logical
mappings on other sites. (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2432538,00.html

-- LATEST DIRECTORY ADDITIONS --------------------------------------
 
JIAC -- JIAC - Java Intelligent Agents Componentware - developed at
the DAI-Lab/Technical University Berlin comprises a Java class library
(API) for the development of a universal architecture of agent
oriented systems. Together with the Java code, usable by means of
inheritance and association/aggregation in arbitrary code, JIAC is
also equipped with a particular methodology for realizing agent
oriented system, finally, it is supported by a suitable set of tools
supporting this activity.  The JIAC approach adopts the principal idea
of independent and autonomous agents within the internal structure of
each agent, too. That is, to a certain extent JIAC is realizing a
self-similar structure. The `agents' within an agent are called
`components'. JIAC knows special purpose components, suited for the
handling of generally necessary activities of agents like
communication, security, knowledge base administration etc. (2/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://dai.cs.tu-berlin.de/english/forschung/projekte/JIAC/main.html

DAI-Lab Berlin -- The DAI-Labor is part of the department of computer
science at the Technical University Berlin. Our major activities
center around research and development of basic technologies and
toolkits apt to support the realization of agent-based systems in
modern telecommunications.  The long-term aim of the DAI-Lab is the
development of platforms enabling the rapid, convenient and safe
realization of future telecommunication applications and telematics
services. (2/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://dai.cs.tu-berlin.de/english/

Vintage -- EC-sponsored project for the development of software
components for solving complex control problems, lead by the Spanish
company ETRA I+D. (2/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ics.uwe.ac.uk/projects/vintage/vintage.htm

CLIMA 2000 -- CL-2000 Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent
Systems (CLIMA-00), a One/Two day(s) workshop in association with
CL2000 (July 24th -- 29th, 2000), Imperial College, London,
U.K. Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2000 (2/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://mhjcc3-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/clima.html

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Analysis: A Structured Bibliography --
This bibliography is mainly intended for computer scientists working
in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, or Computational
Linguistics, with a specific interest in Conceptual Analysis issues.
We refer by this term to a broad area of investigation, which focuses
on the first and often most crucial step in the design of any computer
system: the analysis and the formalization of the domain structure.
Ontologies have become popular recently as a powerful way to formally
express the nature of a domain in a (relatively) task-independent way,
in order to encourage knowledge reuse and integration. (2/25)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/Papers/Ontobiblio/TOC.html

JADE -- JADE (Java Agent Development framework) is a software
framework that simplifies the implementation of multiagent systems
through a middle-ware that claims to comply with FIPA specifications
and through a set of tools that support the debugging and deployment
phases. JADE has successfully participated at the FIPA
interoperability tests hold in Seoul in January 1999 and has been
extensively used within a number of European projects. (2/25)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/

MATA 2000 -- Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for
Telecommunication Applications, Sept 18-20, 2000, Paris, FRANCE (2/25)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://netconf.lip6.fr/mata00/

Web Semantics Workshop, Hong Kong, June 2000 -- The International
Workshop on the World Wide Web Semantics (WebSem 2000), will be held
in conjunction with the International Conference Web Information
Systems Engineering (WISE2000), June 19-20, 2000, in Hong Kong. (2/24)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.eti.hku.hk/~wsong/websem2000.html

STEP 2000 -- Finish AI conference -- The Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Days STeP 2000 Conference has a special session devoted
to agents and a March 1 deadline for submissions. (2/24)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://Saato014.hut.fi/Hyotyniemi/STeS/STeP2000/

Workshop on Agents in Industry -- held in conjunction with the
Autonomous Agents 2000, Submission deadline: March 10, 2000. (2/22)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://agents.umbc.edu/misc/aiicfp.html

Describing and Manipulating XML Data -- Describing and Manipulating
XML Data, S Chawathe, Invited paper, Bulletin of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Data Engineering, 22(3):3-9, 1999 -- a very short (7
page) overview of some key XML technologies: DTD, RDF, XSL, XPath, and
XPointer. (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.umd.edu/~chaw/pubs/xmltour-DEBulletin.ps

6th ECOOP WORKSHOP ON MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS -- Operating System
Support, Security and Programming Languages June 12 or 13, Cannes,
France.  In association with the 14th European Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2000) Cannes, France. (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cui.unige.ch/~ecoopws/ws00/index.html

Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces -- held in conjunction with
2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
(IC-AI'2000), June 26-29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.wright.edu/~mcox/ic-ai/

OntoServer -- An Ontology Server for Ontology Engineering and
Application (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://ontoserver.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/

Wondertools -- A comparative study of ontological engineering tools (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/wondertools/

SemanticWeb.org -- The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having
data defined and linked in a way, that it can be used by machines -
not just for display purposes, but for using it in various
applications.  This site is dedicated to collect these approaches, to
explain them and to be a forum for people interested in the Semantic Web. (2/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.semanticweb.org/

Jargon File -- Deep background. (2/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/

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