UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n13            Sun Apr 16 21:05:44 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).
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              "You think you know when you can learn, are more sure 
              when you can write, even more when you can teach, but 
                   certain when you can program." -- Alan J. Perlis

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Speech and Vision -- A short article in the May/June Technology Review
by MIT Professor Michael Dertouzos that begins "After 40 years of
humans serving computers, people are finally beginning to wake up and
demand that the relationship be reversed: They want machines to become
simpler, address human needs and help increase human productivity.
That's as it should be". (4/16)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.techreview.com/articles/may00/dertouzos.htm>

Jordan Pollack Answers AI Questions -- Slashdot interviewed Jordon
Pollack (Brandeis) on AI and other topics. (4/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/11/0722227>

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11th Irish Conference on AI and Cognitive Science -- 11th Irish
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Aug
23-25, 2000, National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland. Submitted
papers are due June 2, 2000. (4/16)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/aics>

XOL Ontology Exchange Language -- XOL is an XML-based
ontology-exchange language whose semantics is based on OKBC-lite, a
simplified version of OKBC. (4/15)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ai.sri.com/pkarp/xol/>

Ontology Inference Layer (OIL) -- OIL is a proposal for a standard
language for exchanging ontologies based somewhat on OKBC, XOL and
RDF. (4/15)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/>

CARD (Manchester Metropolitan University) -- Centre for Agent Research
and Development (CARD) of Manchester Metropolitan University. (4/15)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.card.mmu.ac.uk/>

AFIT Agent Lab -- The Agents Research Lab at the US Air Force
Institute of Technology. (4/15)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://en.afit.af.mil/ai/>

MaineSAIL -- MaineSAIL is the University of Maine Software Agents and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, -- the center for artificial
intelligence, software agent, and multiagent systems research at the
University of Maine.  The laboratory is directed by Profs. Roy Turner,
Elise Turner, and Thomas Wagner. (4/14)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://MaineSAIL.umcs.maine.edu>

Ant colony optimization -- Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) studies
artificial systems that take inspiration from the behavior of real ant
colonies and which are used to solve discrete optimization
problems. (4/14)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/ACO.html>

PPSN VI -- The Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem
Solving from Nature, Paris, France, September 16-20, 2000 (4/14)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-syntim.inria.fr/fractales/PPSN2000/index.html>

SAB 2000 -- From Animals to Animats, the Sixth International
Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2000), 11-15
September 2000, Paris, France (4/14)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~sab2000/>

Ants'2000 -- The second international workshop on Ant Algorithms,
Brussels, Belgium, September 8-9, 2000. (4/14)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~ants/ants2000/>

Protege KB editor/browser -- Protege-2000 is a knowledge-based systems
editor and browser (Java, open sourced) allows domain experts to build
knowledge-based systems by creating and modifying reusable ontologies
and problem-solving methods.  It has recently been adapted to work with
RDF files. (4/13)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://smi-web.stanford.edu/projects/protege/>


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