UMBC AgentNews v5n15                       Sun Apr 30 17:09:00 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).
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                deeply into the problem that the commonsense answer 
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                       to the commonsense answer."  -- Wittgenstein

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Cyc augmented search engine -- A version of the Hotbot search engine
augmented with the the Cyc ontology is available for experimental use
at beta.hotbot.com. (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://beta.hotbot.com/

Something Is Killing Off the Sims, -- A NYT article by John Markoff
(Something Is Killing the Sims, and It's No Accident) which talks
about the pet guinea pig found to be carrying a potentially fatal
virus that could kill a human character in the game. (4/27)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/circuits/articles/27sims.html

Multiagent calendar -- Jose Vidal's multiagent.com is maintaining a
public Yahoo 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


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Workshop on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems -- A Workshop
organized by the EPSRC Emergent Computing Network group to be held at
the BT conference Facility in Milton Keynes, July 27-28, 2000 (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://images.ee.umist.ac.uk/emergent/

Extending UML for Agents -- Extending UML for Agents, James Odell,
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Bernhard Bauer, submitted paper, 2000. This paper
describes how UML can be used and extended to model agent systems. (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.jamesodell.com/ExtendingUML.pdf

Follow the rabbit -- Follow The Rabbit! is the consumer interface and
technology showcase of TripleHop, Inc., a New York-based technology
firm using an advanced proprietary filtering system to provide both
packaged and custom-made recommender systems.  Once installed on a Web
site, TripleHop's recommender systems function as an e-advisor to the
site's clients, understanding their preferences and making tailored
purchase recommendations. With TripleHop, Web sites can personalize
their users' experience and guide them towards an educated purchase
decision. (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.followtherabbit.com/template_step1.asp

RePast -- Agent-Based Simulations in Java -- Repast (REcursive Porous
Agent Simulation Toolkit) is an agent-based simulation toolkit for
creating agent-based simulations using Java (1.2 or higher). Repast
follows the basic Swarm paradigm in that it envisions a simulation as
a state machine whose state is constituted by the collective states of
all of its components, both infrastructure and representation. The
goal of Repast is to move beyond the representation of agents as
discrete self-contained entities in favor of a view of social actors
as permeable, interleaved, and mutually defining, with cascading and
recombinant motives. (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://repast.sourceforge.net/

Complex adaptive systems and their business applications -- A Course
at the University of Iowa lead by Filippo Menczer. (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/class/6K299_menczer/

Introduction To Metadata -- The Getty Institute has posted
"Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information on the web"
which is "intended as a primer for an important but misunderstood, and
still evolving, aspect of the age of information: metadata. The work
is oriented to cultural heritage and web resource discovery
applications and includes a table showing the detailed relation
between different metadata standards.(EI.Pub) (4/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/index.htm

Evo -- Evo is a Swarm-based software framework that allows researchers
to study complex systems of independent agents interacting with one
another and with their environment. Evo employs biological operators
such as genetic recombination and mutation to evolve the behavior of
agents so that they are more adapted to their environment. (4/27)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.omicrongroup.org/evo/

Position at Unilever Research -- Unilever Research currently has a
vacancy for a research fellow under the Marie-Curie Fellowship scheme
working in the area of text analysis or multi-agent systems. This post
in tenable for 2 years with a current gross salary of 3528 euro/month. (4/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://research.unilever.worldonline.nl/vacancies/vac62.html

AI and Law -- The 8th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Law (St. Louis, USA, May 21-25, 2001) also invites
submissions on relevant applications of electronic commerce and
(multi-) agent systems.  Submission deadline: January 12, 2001. (4/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.wustl.edu/icail2001/

Representing UML in RDF -- Sergey Melnik has created a UML/RDF mapping
which includes the core concepts and UML state machines. (4/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/uml/

Control Algorithms for Mobile Agents -- Baumann, Joachim , Control
Algorithms for Mobile Agents, PhD dissertation, Universitaet Stuttgart
-- several control mechanisms for mobile agents are proposed,
i.e. mechanisms for locating and for terminating mobile agents and for
orphan detection in a mobile agent system. (4/26)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2000/616/

CCL Agent Content Language Pages -- CCL is an content language
designed to be used for agent communication and in particular for
expressing statements about the world which involve complex
interrelated choices. (4/24)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://liawww.epfl.ch/~willmott/CCL/

Modeling Ontologies in RDF -- An Extensible Approach for Modeling
Ontologies in RDF, Staab et al., proposes a strategy for enriching RDF
with logic and inference. (4/24)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst/Research/Publications/onto-rdfs.pdf

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

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