UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n14            Sun Apr 23 20:38:41 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).
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                    "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. 
                     You can see only as far as your headlights, but 
                              you can make the whole trip that way."  
                                                  -- E. L.  Doctorow
                                   (applies to agents research, too.)

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Multiagent calendar -- Jose Vidal's multiagent.com maintains a public
Netscape calendar of events and deadlines relevant to multiagent
systems. (4/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://calendar.yahoo.com/public/multiagent/>

Napster+Agents=Gnutella? -- Gnutella is a completely distributed
Napster like protocol for sharing various kids of files, simple
metadata and queries. (4/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.group.group?groupId=116705>

Google MentalPlex -- Google is using proprietary predictive search
algorithms to further enhance their search engine, allowing it to
respond to the users underlying goals and intentions. (Sandra Newton)
(4/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.google.com/MP_faq.html>

Bee-gent 1.3 available -- A new beta release (1.3) of Toshiba's
Bee-gent system is available. (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www2.toshiba.co.jp/beegent/index.htm>

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Siliware Knowledge Management -- Siliware, an early Jini adopter, is
offering to create custom portals in which "a community of cooperating
software agents that discover, integrate and present Internet
resources on behalf of a user or enterprise application." (4/23)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.siliware.com/index2.htm>

MAMA'2000 -- International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile
Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000) December
11-13, 2000 (Papers due 12 June 2000). (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://mama-2000.tripod.com/>

lipsinc -- SDK LIPSinc TalkBack is the latest addition to a portfolio
of media solutions for the rapid production and delivery of
"compelling, customizable and character-driven content".  (EIPub) (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.LIPSinc.com/>

The Robot in the Garden -- The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and
Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (Leonardo Books) by Ken
Goldberg (Editor), MIT Press; ISBN: 0262072033, March 2000, is a a
collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, and
engineers. (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262072033/instituteforgl07>

Ananova -- Ananova is a computer-generated character designed to read
the news (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ananova.com/>

Knowledge Bus, Inc. -- Knowledge Bus, Inc. is dedicated to the
application of ontologies to automatically generate information system
software for any business domain, with the expressive power of an
ontology and the response time of a database. (4/21)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.knowledgebus.com/>

ACM CIKM '2000 -- Ninth International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management November 6-11, 2000, Washington, DC, Sponsors:
ACM SIGIR, and ACM SIGMIS, papers due May 8th. (4/20)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.csee.umbc.edu/cikm/2000/cfp.html>

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines -- Kluwer is publishing a
new journal, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, edited by
Wolfgang Banzhaf, "devoted to reporting innovative and significant
progress in automatic evolution of software and hardware". (4/18)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2576>

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