UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n10            Sun Mar 26 18:04:15 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).
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Home of the future (CNet) -- Ubiquitous computing in the home. (3/25)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-1544316-7-1570782.html?tag=st.cn.1.prl.1544316-7-1570782>

Google: We're down with ODP -- A Solon article on Google's decision to
use the Open Directory Project's ontology. (3/25)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/03/24/google_odp/index.html>

Brain on a stick (NYT) -- Xybernaut is pushing he idea of a portable
brain that could "dock" with an appropriate environment. (3/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/20pate.html>

Easi-Order wireless home-shopping -- Easi-Order, the wireless
home-shopping service jointly developed by IBM and Safeway UK, uses
datamining and specially adapted Palm III (free!) to offer to
personalized grocery shopping services in which a customer's past
purchases are used to suggest a possible shopping list, which, after
modification, is sent the list to the nearest Safeway store, which
then assembles the order. (3/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000320CAA6>

Here come the screen scrapers (ft.com) -- A short article on companies
which harvest information from web sites and repackage it in one form
or another. (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT389MRU36C&live=true&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C>

France Telecom Creates Voice Access to Internet -- France Telecom's
research unit said on Tuesday it had developed software which could
link callers to an Internet server able to recognize vocal demands and
navigate the web for them.  The new technology cuts out the need for
clients to have access to a computer screen, giving them information
from the web while they do their shopping, or conduct other business,
a spokesman for France Telecom (FTE.PA) R&D told Reuters. (3/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000321/wr/francetelecom_1.html>

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SNePS Research Group -- The long-term goal of The SNePS Research Group
at the University of Buffalo is the design and construction of a
natural-language-using computerized cognitive agent, and carrying out
the research in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics,
and cognitive science necessary for that endeavor. (3/26)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/sneps/>

IHMC CMap Tools -- The IHMC Concept Mapping tools empower users to
construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented
as Concept Maps. The tools are platform-independent and
network-enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during
the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the
network, and share and navigate through others' models distributed on
servers throughout the Internet. (3/26)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/>

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition -- The Institute for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) was
founded at The University of West Florida in 1990 as an
interdisciplinary research unit and is interested in identifying and
exploiting intellectual and technological nonlinearities. (3/26)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/cgi-bin/home>

Principled emotion synthesis in situated software agents -- A
Powerpoint presentation by Paolo Petta of the Institute for Systems
and Robotics Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. (3/26)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://viriato.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda/aims/misc/petta-lisboa00-ORIGINAL.ppt>

Emotion-based agents (MS Thesis) -- Rodrigo Ventura. Emotion-based
agents. Master's thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon,
Portugal, March 2000. (3/26)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda/aims/papers/ventura-msc.ps.gz>

XML Database Products -- A good resource compiled and maintained by
Ronald Bourret which described dozens of products useful for
integrating XML with database and knowledge base systems. (3/25)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DVS1/staff/bourret/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm>

Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology -- Human Cognition and
Social Agent Technology (Advances in Consciousness Research, V19) ,
Kerstin Dautenhahn (Ed), Nov 1999, John Benjamins Pub Co; ISBN:
1556194358.  Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by
researchers at the forefront of agent research include: Narrative
intelligence and implementations of story-telling systems, socially
situated avatars and 'conscious' software agents, cognitive
architectures for socially intelligent agents, agents with emotions,
design issues for interactive systems, artificial life agents,
contributions to agent design from artistic practice, and a Cognitive
Technology view on living with socially intelligent agents. (3/25)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556194358/insiuttegorgl07>

Capability Representations for Brokering: A Survey -- Capability
Representations for Brokering: A Survey - Gerhard Wickler and Austin
Tate, Postscript, 895KB, November 1998. (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/cdl/cdl-ker.ps>

Capability Descriptions (Wickler) -- Using Expressive and Flexible
Action Representations to Reason about Capabilities for Intelligent
Agent Cooperation, Gerhard Wickler, University of Edinburgh,
1999?. (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/cdl/gwphd.ps.gz>

NetBotz -- NetBotz is a startup developing products to monitor
networks covering both computational and physical environment,
monitoring humidity and heat near servers, issuing e-mail alerts and
phone calls to technicians in event of any problems, checking hourly
on each router and switch in the network, etc. every half hour. (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.netbotz.com/>

Pacific Rim International Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents
-- 1st Pacific Rim International Workshop on Intelligent Information
Agents (PRIIA 2000) (http://www.dstc.monash.edu.au/agents/priia2000)
29 August 2000 in conjunction with the 6th Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2000) Convention Centre,
Melbourne, Australia August 28 - September 1, 2000.  Paper deadline
June 1, 2000. (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dstc.monash.edu.au/agents/priia2000>

JOB: INSEAD Centre for Advanced Learning Technology -- The INSEAD
Centre for Advanced Learning Technology (CALT) has an opening for a
research associate position for working on a project about using
artificial agents for helping people in organization to adopt the good
"knowledge behaviour" of the learning organization (joint project with
Xerox). (3/22)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.insead.fr/CALT/Jobs/>

Personal Agents for Mobility Management (PAMM) -- The Personal Agent
Mobility Management System (PAMMS), a personal communications research
initiative set in motion in January 1998, uses an intelligent agent
community to facilitate unified messaging. This flexible, scalable and
adaptable system acts on user preferences to handle messages that are
in different forms (e.g. email, text, voice, FAX etc.), that are
passed through different networks (e.g. telephony, wireless, Internet,
PSTN etc.) and that utilize different protocols (e.g.  HTTP, POP, TAPI
etc.). (3/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/NC_public/projects/pamm/pamm.html>

Mobile agents at IASA -- An invited session on mobile agents in
association with The 4th World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2000) and The 5th International
Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2000),
July 23-26, 2000 Orlando, Florida (USA) Sheraton World (3/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.iiis.org/isas/>

Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems -- This book, "Layered Learning
in Multiagent Systems: A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer," looks at
multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting
in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. (3/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262194384>

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