UMBC AgentNews v5n16                       Sun May  7 20:46:52 2000
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The AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets will be
held on Monday, July 31, Austin TX. (5/7)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kbem/program.shtml

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Adaptive Web Sites -- in "M. Perkowitz, and O. Etzioni. "Towards
Adaptive Web Sites: Conceptual Framework and Case Study." Artificial
Intelligence Journal, v188, n1/2, 2000" the authors describe work
aimed at creating web site that automatically improve their
organization and presentation by learning from user access
patterns. (5/7)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/map/research/papers/aij99.ps

Co-Evolutionary Robot Soccer -- University of Aarhus offers RoboCup Jr
-- a web-based Co-Evolutionary Robot Soccer game.  You can evolve your
own (Khepera simulated) robots to play the soccer game by manipulating
evolution parameters. When you evolve a good robot, you can upload it
to our server, which will play 50.000 matches every night among the
incoming players, and then generate the new highscore list every
morning. At the end of the competition, the best ones on the highscore
list will win the prizes (different robots). (5/7)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.legolab.daimi.au.dk/cerss/

"From objects to agents: the evolution of software systems" is the
first Italian Workshop on Agent Systems and Applications.  It will be
held at the University of Parma, May 29-30, 2000 (5/7)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://Agents.CE.UniPR.IT/events/woa2000/

Forum 2000 is a sophisticated expert system incorporating the latest
breakthroughs in natural language and neural network research. The
system is composed of about 11 million lines of C++ code, running on a
"farm" of heterogeneous machines interconnected via a prototype 40
Gigabit (OC-768) ATM network developed by IntraLink Solutions. The
underlying quadratic neural network has been training on Usenet, Web,
and literature sources for over three years; on July 11, 1998, the
neural matrix surpassed 32 Terabytes in size! (5/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.forum2000.org/

The First Workshop on Rule-Based Constraint Reasoning and Programming,
associated with the First International Conference on Computational
Logic (CL2000), will be held July 24-28, 2000, at Imperial College,
London, UK (5/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~fruehwir/cl2000r.html

Semantic Web: Models, Architectures and Management -- A workshop
following ECDL'2000 Conference Lisbon, September 21st 2000, focused on
the concept of the "semantic web" which will facilitate resource
discovery, information filtering and "intelligent browsing". (5/3)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/SemWeb/

SWI-Prolog RDF parser -- A prolog parser developed at the University
of Amsterdam which transforms RDF expressions into the underlying
triples suitable for inferencing, putting into a database or as input
to another process. (5/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/packages/sgml/rdf2pl.html

Search engines and intelligent agents -- The Fifth Annual Search
Engine Meeting was held in Boston in April 2000, and Chris Sherman
wrote a report describing the presentations, including Danny
Sullivan's State of the Search Engines Report, a talk by Inktomi
co-founder Eric Brewer, reports on MSN Search and FAST, and a look at
how intelligent agents will fit into the picture. (5/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/weekly/aa042100a.htm

RuleSpace.com -- RuleSpace is a privately held corporation located in
Portland, Oregon that provides instant web content recognition
enabling Internet applications and network appliances to answer on the
fly what the page is about. (5/1)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.rulespace.com/

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