UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n11            Fri Mar 31 21:08:41 2000
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German Robot Klaus Passes Driving Test -- Klaus -- pioneered by car
maker Volkswagen AG -- drove in public for the first time around a
German test circuit using three laser scanners, a stereo camera, video
and satellite navigation systems and radar hooked up to a computer. (3/31)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000331/tc/tech_robot_1.html>

Internet Computing: special issue on Agents on the Internet -- IEEE
Internet Computing has a special issue "AGENTS ON THE NET:
Infrastructure, Technology, and Applications", Vol. 4, No. 2,
March/April 2000, Edited by Michael Wooldridge and Keith Decker. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computer.org/internet/ic2000/w2toc.htm>

FIPA Inform newsletter, issue 1 -- FIPA's Inform is a newsletter of
news and information about the FIPA Agent standards. (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://fipa.umbc.edu/inform/inform1.pdf>

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BT Internships 2000 -- The Intelligent Systems Research (ISR) group at
BT Labs (UK) is currently seeking applications for a number of
internship positions for 6-month to one-year periods. The positions
are suitable for candidates who are undertaking a PhD in Multi-Agent
Systems, Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with an
interest in developing industrial applications. (3/31)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://agents.umbc.edu/misc/bt.shtml>

Workshop on Teams with Adjustable Autonomy -- Workshop on Teams with
Adjustable Autonomy at PRICAI 2000, Melbourne, Australia Monday, Aug 28, 00 (3/31)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ida.liu.se/~nanre/pricai-team-workshop2000.html>

eBiquity.org: Pervasive Computing News and Developments --
ebiquity.org is a slashdot-like site for news and discussion about
ubiquitous and pervasive computing, covering devices, communication,
infrastructure, middleware, mobility, applications, m-commerce and theory. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ebiquity.org/>

W3C QL98 Position Paper: RDF - Enabling Inferencing -- This paper
presents an overview of the query services that might be built on top
of XML/RDF data. It does not present a specific proposal for an RDF
query language; instead, it argues for a query language that is
expressed in terms of the RDF logical data model rather than one
particular concrete syntax (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/enabling.html>

XML, Java, and the Future of the Web -- XML, Java, and the Future of
the Web, Jon Bosak , December 19, 1997 -- an excerpt from the world
wide web journal. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://webreview.com/wr/pub/97/12/19/xml/index.html>

XML and the Second Generation Web -- Scientific American: Feature
Article: XML and the Second Generation Web: May 1999 (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html>

RDF Tutorial -- A tutorial on RDF by Pierre-Antoine Champin covering
syntax, semantics, concepts can vocabulary. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~champin/rdf-tutorial/>

Simple Logic-based RDF Interpreter -- SiLRI is a main-memory
logic-based inference engine implemented in Java which implements a
major part of Frame-Logic and has support for RDF. The implemented
semantics include well-founded semantics and the rule language allows
general logic programs, enabling a specification like modeling. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde/rdf/>

Software Agent Framework Technology -- SAFT is an agent framework that
is built using available standards as much as possible (mainly the
Java 2 Enterprise Edition and HTTP standards). The reason for creating
a standards-based framework was that many available frameworks either
require that you run their implementation or use their own mechanisms
and protocols for most parts (eg Aglets, Ajanta). They also rarely try
to meet industry demands on scalability and integration with legacy systems. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~karbl058/saft/>

JATLite-ACL -- JATLite-ACL is an adaptation of the JATLite package to
support the FIPA ACL which has been developed at EPFL. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/~calisti/ACL-LITE/>

ACL-based Agent Systems -- A short article from IEEE Internet
Computing by Heecheol Jeon, Charles Petrie, and Mark Cutkosky. (3/30)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computer.org/internet/v4n2/w2agents.htm>

FIPA Inform newsletter, issue 1 -- FIPA's Inform is a newsletter of
news and information about the FIPA Agent standards. (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://fipa.umbc.edu/inform/inform1.pdf>

Robust Agent Teams via Socially-Attentive Monitoring -- Kaminka, and
Tambe, (2000), "Robust Agent Teams via Socially-Attentive Monitoring",
JAIR, Volume 12, pages 105-147. (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.jair.org/abstracts/kaminka00a.html>

Foundations of Knowledge Systems - with Applications to Databases and
Agents -- "Foundations of Knowledge Systems with Applications to
Databases and Agents" covers both basic and advanced topics. It may be
used as the textbook of a course offering a broad introduction to
databases and knowledge bases, or it may be used as an additional
textbook in a course on databases or Artificial Intelligence. (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792382129/institutegorgl07>

AOIS Glossary -- "The AOIS Glossary" is a hypertext glossary listing
the most fundamental terms and concepts that are relevant to the
general theme "Agent-Orientation in Information Systems". (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.AOIS.org/glossary.pdf>

First robotics competition -- The FIRST Robotics Competition is a
national engineering contest which immerses high school students in
the exciting world of engineering.  Teaming up with engineers from
businesses and universities, students get a hands-on, inside look at
the engineering profession. In six intense weeks, students and
engineers work together to brainstorm, design, construct and test
their "champion robot". With only six weeks, all jobs are critical
path. The teams then compete in a spirited, no-holds-barred tournament
complete with referees, cheerleaders and time clocks. (3/29)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.usfirst.org/>

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