UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n12            Sun Apr  9 21:14:17 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).
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                "The point of philosophy is to start with something 
                 so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end
                     with something so paradoxical that no one will 
                                  believe it."  ---Bertrand Russell

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JASSS v3n2 March 2000 -- This electronic issue contains two peer
reviewed papers, 'Modeling social systems as complex: Towards a
social simulation meta-model' and 'Simulating Common Pool Resource
Management Experiments with Adaptive Agents Employing Alternate
Communication Routines' and two articles which review past significant
research, including Robert Axelrod's classic, The Evolution of
Cooperation. (4/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/3/2/contents.html>

Intelligent Agents Increasingly Used In ecommerce -- Intelligent
agents are moving into the rapidly-growing worlds of e-commerce and
wireless Net devices, according to a number of announcements in the
last week.... (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.botspot.com/news/000327ecommerce.html>

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"On Agent-Based Software Engineering" -- N. R. Jennings (2000) "On
Agent-Based Software Engineering" Artificial Intelligence, 117(2)277-296. (4/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/download-files/aij2000.ps>

Computer simulation of societies: Home Page -- A site is maintained by
CRESS - the Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences -
to provide a library of links related to social simulation around the world. (4/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/simsoc.html>

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation -- JASS is a
quarterly electronic peer-reviewed journal "for the exploration and
understanding of social processes by means of computer simulations." (4/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>

Jini in a Nutshell -- Jini in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference,
Scott Oaks and Henry Wong, O'Reilly, ISBN: 1565927591 is a quick
reference guide to developing services and clients using Jini. (4/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565927591/instituteforgl07>

Game Theory Society -- Founded in January 1999, the society aims to
promote the investigation, teaching and application of game theory. (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.gametheorysociety.org/>

Digitech -- Digitech Projects have released Version 2 of their
model-based face recognition engine which uses a face template of
under 20 bytes, currently the smallest in the industry. The engine is
available for anyone to freely download and evaluate with optional
registration. (EIPub) (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.digitech-projects.com/>

Cooperation - A Philosophical Study -- Cooperation - A Philosophical
Study (PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES Volume 82), Raimo Tuomela, Feb
2000, ISBN: 0792362012.  This philosophical work offers the first
comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation. It builds on such
notions as collective and joint goals, mutual beliefs, collective
commitments, acting together and acting collectively.  The book
analyzes the varieties of cooperation, making use of the crucial
distinction between group-mode and individual-mode cooperation. (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792362012/instituteforgl07>

Calresco -- CALResCo is a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting the wider aspects of the Complex System sciences by
education, synthesis and by the integration of the theories into the
mainstream viewpoints of arts, philosophy and science. (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.calresco.org/>

Enabling Inference in Mozilla -- an umbrella project for experimental
work investigating the integration of logic/inference capabilities
into the Mozilla application environment. (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/inference.html>

Mozillation project -- The Mozillation project wraps a logic engine
(SWI Prolog) as a Mozilla XP-COM component to allow client-side
inferences to be made from RDF statements (works with Netscape 6!). (4/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://209.198.94.130/mzpl/>

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