UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n7             Sun Mar  5 18:02:20 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).      
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              "If patterns of ones and zeros were "like" patterns of
            human lives and death, if everything about an individual
          could be represented in a computer record by a long string
                 of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would
               be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?"
                                                   ---Thomas Pynchon

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AAAI'2000 Workshop on Knowledge based Electronic Markets -- Final Call
for submissions, which are due Friday March 10. Workshop will be held
at AAAI on Monday July 31 in Austin TX. (3/5)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.igec.umbc.edu/kbem/>

Next Game: Future Play Time -- PC MAgazine article on how advanced
software technology, including AI, is being used to enhance
computer-based games. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.pcworld.com:80/current_issue/article/0,1212,13926+9+0,00.html>

Data-mining industry coming of age -- A short opinion piece by Gregory
Piatetsky-Shapiro which appeared in IEEE Intelligent Sytems, v14n6,
Nov/Dec 1999. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computer.org/intelligent/ex1999/pdf/x6032.pdf>

AI's greatest trends and controversies -- by Marti Hearst and Haym
Hirsh, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2000 -- "We have asked a
set of distinguished scholars and practitioners who were involved in
AI's formative stages to describe, in just a few paragraphs, the most
notable trend or controversy (or nontrend or noncontroversy) during
AI's development."  (3/2)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computer.org/intelligent/ex2000/pdf/x1008.pdf>

Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink? -- A Salon
review of Simson Garfinkel's book "Database Nation" which discusses
issues of privacy in information systems. (3/2)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/03/01/database_nation/index.html>


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Dr. Email Will See You Now -- An Article By Deborah Shapley in the
Jan/Feb 2000 issue of MIT's Technology Review which discussed the use
of automatic email answering software for CRM. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.techreview.com/articles/jan00/shapley.htm#sidebar>

Talking with Your Computer -- Victor Zue, Scientific American, Aug 99. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899zue.html>

The integrality of speech in multimodal interfaces -- M Grasso, D
Ebert and T Finin , ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction,
v5n4, (1998), Pages 303-325. A framework of complementary behavior has
been proposed which maintains that direct-manipulation and speech
interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses.  This suggests
that user interface performance and acceptance may increase by
adopting a multimodal approach that combines speech and direct
manipulation. This effort examined the hypothesis that the speed,
accuracy, and acceptance of multimodal speech and direct-manipulation
interfaces will increase when the modalities match the perceptual
structure of the input attributes. ... (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~finin/papers/tochi99.pdf>

Will voice interfaces replace screens? -- No, according to this short
piece by Jakob Nielsen. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.developer.ibm.com/library/articles/nielsen1.html>

MASSYVE - Multiagent Kit -- Massyve kit version 2.0 provides a small,
easy, and interactive tool for the fast development of simple
applications of multiagent systems. It is essentially oriented towards
the education and training activities, although in principle it can
also be used to develop non-sophisticated multiagent systems for
various application domains. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.gsigma-grucon.ufsc.br/massyve/mkit.htm>

MASSYVE -- MASSYVE is a EU project on "Multiagent Manufacturing Agile
Scheduling Systems for Virtual Enterprises". (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://centaurus.dee.fct.unl.pt/~massyve/>

Autonomous Agents for Business Process Management -- N. R. Jennings,
P. Faratin, T. J. Norman, P. O'Brien and B. Odgers (2000) "Autonomous
Agents for Business Process Management" Int.  Journal of Applied
Artificial Intelligence. (to appear) (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=ftp://ftp.elec.qmw.ac.uk/pub/isag/distributed-ai/publications/aaij991.ps.gz>

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering -- N Jennings and M Wooldridge
(2000) "Agent-Oriented Software Engineering" in Handbook of Agent
Technology (ed. J Bradshaw) AAAI/MIT Press.  (to appear) (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=ftp://ftp.elec.qmw.ac.uk/pub/isag/distributed-ai/publications/agt-handbook.pdf>

Where Do Intelligent Agents Come From? -- Intelligence From Dumb
Agents, Cristobal Baray and Kyle Wagner, ACM Crossroads, v5n4, summer 99. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-4/dumbagents.html>

Introduction to genetic algorithms with Java applets -- An overview of
genetic algorithms illustrated with java applets, by Marek Obitko,
Czech Technical University. (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/>

WebKDD '2000 -- ACM-SIGKDD'2000 Workshop: WEBKDD'2000: Web Mining for
E-Commerce-- Challenges and Opportunities, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA
To be held in conjunction with ACM-SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge
Discovery in Databases (KDD'2000) (3/3)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://robotics.Stanford.EDU/~ronnyk/WEBKDD2000/>

Agent-based information filtering and recommender systems (Delgado) --
Phd Thesis by by Joaquin A. Delgado, Nagoya Institute of Technology, (3/2)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-ishii.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~jdelgado/Thesis.PDF>

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